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A trio of red, yellow and green parrots and cockatiels sit on wooden perches, oblivious to the piercing stare of a blue-eyed feline a few feet away.

She was only able to find one of her cats, and the family had no way to carry out their cockatiel, so she left behind extra food and water and hoped for the best.

“I would never ride such a magnificent creature. Would you ride one of your squawking cockatiels?”

The pets they’re mourning aren’t only cats and dogs — turtles, cockatiels, parrots, lizards, horses, and rabbits have been brought up in sessions, too, she said.

They were unware that in 2020, when he was aged 18, Ray was convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal after stabbing his family's pet cockatiel.