>From:    Melissa Drake <[log in to unmask]>
>My worries is that like ferrets, I think birds shouldn't spend all day
>locked in a cage.  Plus, seeing as it's an appartment, it's inevitable
>the birds will encounter the caged ferrets or vice versa.  How do bird
>owners deal with their ferrets vs. their birds?
 
Is your apt a studio?  If you even have one room you can close a door
on, then you can separate the birds and ferrets.  Obviously you won't be
letting the birds and ferrets out of their cages at the same time, so you
either move one cage or the other into the other room and close the door.
 
The only cage I have in the same space as my ferrets is my caique's cage.
It, however, is a powder-coated steel cage on wheels, and the ferrets
can't climb it or in any way actually reach the cage part, so the bird is
fine.  I'm not even sure the ferrets know the bird is up there.  My other
birds live in my bedroom.  I go in there to interact with them.  They
never see the ferrets and vice versa.
 
It can be done.  Be inventive! :-)
Karen
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