Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!compugen!john
From: john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: budgie dead
Message-ID: <1435@compugen.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 14:01:31 GMT
Reply-To: john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin)
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Organization: Compugen Systems, Willowdale
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I removed all the perches last night but couldn't get the birds in a calm
state. They WANTED their perches. I let them have a tiny amount of light
thru their covered cage, but they wouldn't go down to the cage floor.
I relented after an hour and gave them a single perch at the bottom. I
tried to fake them out by placing another perch on the cage floor. Finally I
gave up and closed their light totally after leaving them on the bottom
perch. This morning the female was dead on the cage floor. I dunno...
was it the strain of wanting to reach the non-existent upper perches
thruout the night which is responsible? She looked like she was improving
otherwise. I hope this postmortem helps other owners. :-(