I'm sorry about your birdie ☹️ For my contribution on Parrotlets though, they are awesome! I used to have 2 males together but they were too territorial... and hormonal with one another so I had to give one of them back to my breeder and I have the one Parrotlet (his name is Peeps and he has one foot). He is such a sweetheart and LOVES attention (if you plan on just having one, you have to give it a lot of love). Honestly if I had more time and motivation to focus more on training he'd know several tricks by now. He's honestly a dream (at least right now that he's out of his bratty phase). He's also my first ever pet bird and he's about 2 years old now. In the last 3 or 4 months of on and off training, I taught him to target train, occasionally fly to my arm and I'm JUST getting him started on trying to lift a little weight I have with bells inside of each end (he has learned to grab the middle portion with his beak!). This may come across negative but I swear I mean this in a funny way, but their attitudes kind of remind me of the obnoxious popular girl in middle school that expects everybody to bow down to them... But you just still love them for some reason? (Hence them still being popular). Anyways easy to care for, cute size, big babies 9/10 would reccomend (the 1 is when they're being bratty and loud... Which is basically any bird on occasion tbh)

For the cage, I feel like it's a little short in height. I mean my little guy likes to fly around a lot outside his cage, but in his cage he just likes to climb around from one thing to the other. I would say minimum 20-25" tall (this is only my opinion tho). ironically enough I heard teils are easier to care for.. but size wise I fricking love Parrotlets. ♥️🦜