Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!stewartw From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: INDOOR: parakeet longevity Message-ID: <9001@cognos.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 90 20:01:21 GMT References: <6378@uceng.UC.EDU> <8923@cognos.UUCP> <934@cfiprod.UUCP> Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 22 In article rmura@world.std.com (Ron Mura) writes: > And when you go to the store to get food, they sell mixes >with fatty seeds that caged budgies shouldn't eat. Try finding 100% >while millet--even on request it's hard to locate. It's hard to know where to look, but once you find the right places life becomes easy. There are good bird stores in many areas of Canada now, and one very reliable bird-only mail_order house. The biggest problem I've found is to sort out the good businesses from the bad. (ie it's easier to find the millet than to determine whether or not the guy running the business is a con-artist or a smuggler). Stewart -- Stewart Winter Cognos Incorporated S-mail: P.O. Box 9707 VOICE: (613) 738-1338 x3830 FAX: (613) 738-0002 3755 Riverside Drive UUCP: uunet!cognos!stewartw Ottawa, Ontario The bird of the day is .... Peach Fronted Conure CANADA K1G 3Z4