I'm trying to stay positive, but it's getting difficult. It's been two months now, and there's been no sign of him anywhere...only signs of other found budgies/birds. Actually, all these false positives (people calling up saying they think they've found/seen our bird) have been hard to deal with as well. They get your hopes up, only to crush them with full force a millisecond later. It really has been an emotional rollercoaster.

I was thinking of the parents of those two teenage boys who went missing in Missouri, USA and how they must have felt before they found their sons. Shawn's parents must have gone through the same kinds of feelings I'm going through right now - wondering if they'll ever seen their loved one again.

It's horrible to think about that - so horrible that I really can't. I guess it's easier to hope and pray that we will find him one day, so that's how I like to think of it...as Shawn's parents said, miracles do happen.

At the very least, I hope he's out there, having fun, and enjoying his freedom.