Cage location?
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:34 pm
Hi all,
I’m hoping to get a pair of society finches in the near future. I've been doing as much reading as I can and I feel prepared to step into the world of finches, but for as hard as I've looked I can't find an answer to this.
The problem I am currently facing is that where I live, my room is in the basement, where there are no windows (but there are french doors that can be opened out to a room where there are windows).
I would obviously like to keep the finches in my room and not upstairs, which is a den of constant noise and I just don’t… like to be up there. I don’t think the birds would like to be up there, either. The way the house is laid out also means the kitchen is the central part, and there is very little in the way of dividing space, so I’m worried that by having the finches near to the kitchen they could conceivably get poisoned by high-heat cooking with antistick pans.
I would of course provide the birds with a timed UV light if they were in my room, and I've heard you can leave a radio playing for them, but what I’m worried about is a lack of anything for them to… look at when I’m not around? When I am home, I’m almost always in my room, but I work from 9am-6pm weekdays. I know societies don’t care about humans, but if it would be cruel to keep them in a room with no windows to look out of or anything, I don’t want to do that to them—I would rather wait until I’m at a better point in my life to give them a good home.
Thanks!
I’m hoping to get a pair of society finches in the near future. I've been doing as much reading as I can and I feel prepared to step into the world of finches, but for as hard as I've looked I can't find an answer to this.
The problem I am currently facing is that where I live, my room is in the basement, where there are no windows (but there are french doors that can be opened out to a room where there are windows).
I would obviously like to keep the finches in my room and not upstairs, which is a den of constant noise and I just don’t… like to be up there. I don’t think the birds would like to be up there, either. The way the house is laid out also means the kitchen is the central part, and there is very little in the way of dividing space, so I’m worried that by having the finches near to the kitchen they could conceivably get poisoned by high-heat cooking with antistick pans.
I would of course provide the birds with a timed UV light if they were in my room, and I've heard you can leave a radio playing for them, but what I’m worried about is a lack of anything for them to… look at when I’m not around? When I am home, I’m almost always in my room, but I work from 9am-6pm weekdays. I know societies don’t care about humans, but if it would be cruel to keep them in a room with no windows to look out of or anything, I don’t want to do that to them—I would rather wait until I’m at a better point in my life to give them a good home.
Thanks!