I find my birds also are a great deal of comfort. Smokey who everyone called the mean bird was my best companion. We understood each oher. When he had a bad day, I would just leave him alone. He never ran from my bad days. He often wanted back out of the cage at night and would come and sit with me for a while. There were some nights he would go to bed with me and sleep on my shoulder or arm all night.

On ther other hand, my two dogs who hav always slept in bed with Danny and I will have nothing to do with sleeping in the bed since he died. Puddles (female, who was clearly his dog) sleeps in the living room. Buddy (male, and my dog) sleeps either in the hallway between my son's and my bedroom or in his room. If I have a night when I sleep in the living room he sleeps there with me.

I am going to start a new thread under general talk about how people have gotten their birds. I think it will be fun.