| Scooter's New Stainless Steel Cage |
For years Scooter has had a wonderful, large, roomy, California Cage we
purchased from "Chippy the Pirate" in Fort Lauderdale about 7 years ago.
Recently we were at Golden
Cockatoo here in Deerfield Beach checking out some bird food and
supplies and looking for a new cage for either Tashy bird or little
Squirt. We were speaking with Richard Horvits, owner of GC, about his
stainless steel line of cages that he has manufactured for the store and
he made us an offer we could not refuse so we purchased our very first
stainless steel cage thinking that either Tashy Bird or Squirt
would be the resident.
We took the two boxes home and carefully opened them, washed the parts,
and put them together (some assembly required) and waited for the new
shiny Quaker home to dry. As hot as the sun was that day it didn't take
long to dry and I wiped the dried spots off and easily rolled the new
abode into the aviary.
Expectedly there was a lot of flurry from 6 quakers a couple Rosellas
and an Amazon as they gave me and that silver thing in the middle of
their room the evil "one eye". About the time a little quiet returned to
the room I reached over to pick up Tashy to introduce her to the new
"digs" (earlier my wife and I decided to let whoever liked the cage and
selected it themselves to move in) when Scooter hopped on my shoulder
and then hopped right onto the cage sitting in the middle of the floor.
My wife and I looked at each other with a "well that was totally
unexpected" look.
It's funny, Scooter never likes cages, he thinks he is a human and
should never even be invited to stay in a jail like, yet 5 star hotel
every night. This day he jumped right into that cage and made
himself right at home. He even strutted a little bit as if to say,
"mine"! Funny little creatures, we always thought he just didn't care
for cages when all the time he wanted a shiny stainless steel cage. He's
quite satisfied now and even goes into his new home without having to be
treated like a four year old trying to stay up to watch late night TV.
The photo below is Scooter inviting you to step in and take a look at
his new home. He really likes it and we're extremely pleased with it's
construction and workmanship. When we can afford another one we'll make
another pilgrimage to GC. Enjoy
Jon-Mark and Scooter
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July 2007 |
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