Birds In Cages!?

[Ben]

we got some free range chickens in our garden, and as you can imagin our 2 cats are not impressed at all

[Banana Steve]

Mind you when you do let an exotic bird loose like the pink flamingo, for instance the one that got blown away from that zoo last week. It will only get eaten by a non exotic fox.

[geffski]

Originally Posted by pinguprogress

but up near my parents there is a free colony of parakeets and admit am far happier seeing them like this rather than cage

trouble is really any pet people have is a trapped animal really, never did get the reptile thing

is that up near hampton on thames/
molsey/bushy park, seen loads of ring neck parakeets up ther!
think thers been a conoly ther yonks, good to see them doing so well!

[pingu]

epsom common
also over hackbridge way
really common site now

good old global warming

[tat]

I've gorra budgie and it has free rein in the house,just leave the door open and it's out for a dayor as long as it wants

[biggun]

Originally Posted by cuckoo

A lot of the older generation like caged birds , easy to keep , and a little company !!!! me i used to keep cockatils in an aviary , but had to give them away , as next doors cats all 5 of them spent all there time in my garden !!!!!

lee.

This should get you animal lovers going!

Lee, I used to have a similar problem when I lived at home with mum and dad!
I found that a .22 solved that problem!!!
I shall now duck for cover.

[Omahayank]

I'm sort of leaning towards "Its Just a dumb animal" It really doesnt know or care either way.

The wild critter eyeballs the pan of food in the pets cage........The caged critter eyeballs the open sky.

Its a trade off........................Take my little fuzzy cat for example. A nice gal at work found him on her farm, 'playing' w/her bulldog,
(trying to get close to his food dish....dog be damned??). She gave him to me, we thought he was a skinny little kitten.

I took him to the vet, he was 4lbs. I had already gotten him a bag of High fat/protien kitten chow. The vet took 1 look at his teeth and said, "This is an adult cat!" took him back in 3 weeks later, he was 8lbs. Another month later he was 11lbs.

He will Always go to the door when I open it, he will go out and roll and squirm around on the rough concrete of my porch and walkway, BUT the instant he hears a neighbor kid-dog-car. He shoots back in the house like his tail was on fire.....He LIKES a roof over his head and all the food he can keep down (12.5# now )