Colour of Cage

[denalibelay]

Hello,

 

I'm from South Africa and have had an African Grey (Sam) for about 3 or so years now. I also have 9 Siberian huskies. I have to keep Sam contained most of the day because of the Siberians. He is in a decent size cage and sometimes I bring him out to be with me in the evenings while I watch some TV. I am needed to replace his cage as I would prefer to have one off the ground. He has always been in a white cage and someone told me African Grey's do not like darker coloured cages. Is this true? And if it is not, how would he take to a new cage?

 

Hope someone can help:

Merle Melvill

merle@denalibelay.com

[judygram]

Color doesn't matter except in a few cases where a particular grey may not like certain ones but a new cage will have to be introduced slowly for as you probably already know they do not take to change easily. Get the cage and set it up in the same room but across the room from him and slowly over a period of days bring it closer until he accepts it being there and put food and toys inside and he will probably end up going inside to check it out.

[denalibelay]

Thanks a million. I'm going to give it a try. It is expensive the one I am wanting to get, for us here in South Africa at least.

[denalibelay]

I have this one A26 in white at the moment (see link below), but the dogs are lifting their legs (I have two young brothers) on the cage. I have a towel and newspaper hanging around the bottom of the cage to prevent any dog pee from getting into the cage. This is the reason I want to lift the cage off of the floor. (Once I have a new cage for him, I'm going to get my cousin to modify the current cage by taking some of the bottom off, enclosing the play area and lifting it higher, so then Sam will have two cages.)

 

This is the one I am thinking of getting for him (A23) - it will be a bronze type colour. Apparently it is difficult to buy white cages now here in South Africa, because the fashion is darker colours. Can you believe that? I guess no-one cares what the animals prefer!

 

http://www.tavs.co.za/ing%20parrot%20cages.htm

 

or instead of the A23 this one.

 

[denalibelay]

Just a report back. The new cage arrived yesterday late afternoon delivered by an avian expert! It turned out to be black (not my favourite colour choice, but all they had available). The avian expert enticed Sam onto the new cage where I had put some food that I knew he loves and some of his favourite Nalani toys (the poodle one). He settled down after about one hour and slept in it without any problems or concerns last night. I was flabbergasted. I thought that it would take weeks for him to become accustomed to a new colour cage. My cousin now will be fixing the other cage to stand higher off the ground and Sam will have a choice as to which cage he would like to be in. I'll fit both of them out with the water bottles he likes, toys he loves and he can go from one to the other. I love my bird! He's so cool.