I am still wondering if we did the right thing to our budgie some years
ago...

He was i nice, friendly bird, he enjoyed cruising around in our living room,
sitting on top of the window curtains, looking at the life in the street.
And he liked to be carried around, sitting on my finger. He sang a lot, all
the time, he ate like a horse and was in all ways a happy bird. Of course,
this was before the time we got cats...

Anyway, at one time we noticed that he wasn't that active anymore. The door
to the cage was open all day when we were awake, so he could do anything he
wanted. But now, he started more and more to sit inside the cage, or just
climb up on the cage's roof and sit there to sing.

We didn't know what it was, but one day I suspected he had lost his sight...
So I made a test, I took him out of the cage and dropped him to see if he
was able to find his way back to the cage. He wasn't. He crashed into the
wall, landed on the floor behind a book shelf and sat there screaming for
help. Blind. I returned him to the cage, he found his way in and started
eating. Besides from being blind, there was nothing wrong with him.  He was
still singing and talking to us, his appetite was excellent.

The next day we took him to the vet to find out if this was something that
could be cured, but the vet gave us no hope. he examined the bird
thoroughly, and found out that the bird would never see again.

My wife and I sat down and thought it over: What would be the best for him?
Living the rest of his life as a blind bird in a cage, or put him to sleep?
It was hard, but in the end we found out that we should put him down.

But all these years after I have been thinking: Right or wrong...?

Anyway, I hope he is having a good time, wherever he may be right now...