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You know how grey time works. I'm betting Sterling Gris will get over it, it will just be in his time.

Thanks everyone. As an update. Sterling Gris, who is a scaredy cat now fears me. I hope he gets over it, but he looks at me as if I am going to destroy him. I have thought hard about what happened and how the inside of my home looked covered in smoke. My fear was my birds were choking on smoke and I had to save them. I do not regret what I did, my only thoughts were to get my birds into carriers and into fresh air and I did it. They are all fine and if Sterling Gris can't forgive me at least he is alive. Pissed off but alive.

Bless you my sweet lady, it's going to work out. We know you. Some thoughts...setting his room back up to as original as you can, paint, curtains, nick-naks, etc. You will do it....Jay and Maggie

I know I've already commented but I wanted to add: if Sterling-Gris makes a habit of it, you may consider talking to a vet about using Haloperidol to settle him down for a while. I've mentioned it here before but I'll repeat it - our new bird, Huey has an abused past and when he gets stressed he will tear the scales off his feet and keep at it until they're bleeding and eventually would lead to putting him down. It's a nuerotic behavior he gets into and once it starts the only way to stop him is dosing him with Haloperidol. It settles him right down. The vet put our Huey on 3 drops morning and night which he was on for I don't know how many years. When we got him I was determined to get him off the meds. He went 1.5 months and then one morning I went out to the aviary to get him and his feet were bloody. He got cold and paniced and went after his feet. So back to 3 drops and I'm slowly weaning him down to zero. It's just a thought, I hate meds as much or more as the next guy but I've seen how it can stop a neurosis on the spot and helps the bird to settle and then off his meds.

What a heart-dropping experience! I can only imagine how you felt when you saw the smoke. So thankful everyone and everybird survived.

Hopefully this may be a one time reaction from the house filled smoke. Thank God all your fids are OK Give Sterling an extra hug and tell him we are all happy he is OK.

Find his treat he can't live without! Then use it to condition him to step up. It's not like he doesn't know how, he just needs to redirect his thought processes.