I visited a pet store, not in my local town, and was totally bewildered at the poor, cramped condition these many, many budgies had to put up with. My wife thinks I am a freak for my love of budgies but even she was left feeling horrified at this stores lack of thought in where to locate the poor budgies. I saw other options there and I cannot work out why they would not do the right thing.

 

My pet bird, who lives inside the house in his cage has a roomier cage than these 'holding boxes' which had up to 20 birds in each............DISGRACEFUL.....SHAME!

I am a big believer in getting pets from shelters, rather than pet shops as shelter animals have had a tougher start to life. I got one of my rabbits, Oreo (RIP) from a shelter and the rest of his life was fantastic.

 

Budgies should be bought from breeders. Pet shops are greedy and careless. Ive seen too many sick birds and the prices they try to scam us with are ridiculous eg, $35 for a pied budgie that's on deaths door?