During my seven years managing a shoppe in the retail bird trade, I was continually struck by how little naturally stimulating enhancement was used in providing caging and habitat for tiny birds like canaries, finches, lovebirds and budgerigars.
Pet stores would house such species in miniscule 18 or 24inch cages, sometimes dozens at a time. Some novice owners would fret about spending an extra $20 or $30 in cage money for their new parakeet, then end up buying one of those little 12” prisons with plastic food and water cups hardly big enough for twenty four hours, let alone with space to forage or bathe in.
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