"I'm telling you, how can a bird like that squeeze in there without popping the door open is just utterly amazing. The bird was flapping around upside down with its foot stuck probably wondering what he got himself into," she said.
Griefer had seen the hawk in her neighborhood before it attacked her son's pets at around 9:30 a.m. on Monday, she told Fox 10.
"Last week, we were going grocery shopping and got rained feathers and I looked up at the lamp post and it was having a meal at the top of the lamp post at the end of the street," she said.
The hawk wound up fatally attacking Petey, but Griefer managed to act quickly enough to rush to Snowy's rescue.
"She got a little beat up," she said of the surviving bird.
Griefer released the hawk, which returned just 15 minutes later in search of another "easy meal."
Griefer's 9-year-old son CJ was saddened by the incident and pointed to the attack as a reason for keeping the birds inside.
"I'm very sad. I just wish he could live a lot longer and now he's in heaven," he said.
The family plans to buy another parakeet after holding a memorial for Petey.
