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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:VIDEO::PULSIFER
Created:Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:942
Total number of notes:6016

273.0. "Jungle Jim's ??" by GIAENG::PULSIFER (Doug Pulsifer 235-3332, BPO1) Mon Oct 09 1989 18:15

    I just saw a full page addd for a new Pet store.
    
    It is Jungle Jim's of Holden MAss, "NEW ENGLAND'S FIRST DISCOUNT
    HOUSE OF BIRDS AND PETS"  Its on 800 main ST(RT 122A across from
    PApa Gino's) Holden Mass. 508-829-3188.  He seems to have just about
    any bird you want.
    
    Anybody been there ?
    
    Doug
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273.1I been to Jungle Jim'sMSHRMS::BURHANSTue Oct 10 1989 17:1910
    
    	I've been there, I used to live in Holden.  He's been open 
    	a couple of years.  Nice guy, but I wouldn't say prices or
    	selection are worth a long ride (unless things have changed
    	radically since February).
    
    	The birds I've seen in there seemed healthy/happy and 
    	retail priced.
    
    					Roger
273.2nice placeWEFXEM::SMITHWed Oct 11 1989 15:574
    	 I go there quite a lot.  The place is always clean and they just
    opened a new large section just for birds a couple of weeks ago. 
    He increased his inventory and I'm sure he will even more. The owner is
    really nice. 
273.3breeding stockMEMV02::COMPTONThu Oct 19 1989 16:097
    We stopped by there last Saturday.  Very clean, but a fair amount
    of cigarette smoke.  They had a beautiful pair of surgically sexed,
    bonded Amazon Orange-Wings, if anyone is interested in trying to
    breed this type of bird.  They wanted about $485 for the pair. 
    Compared to the size and condition of other Orange-Wings I've seen
    in shops, these two were extraordinary.  Not for pets, though. /Linda
    
273.4NOT SO HOTMILPND::BUCCIERIMon Nov 13 1989 16:5831


My husband and I stopped at Jungle Jim's last Saturday and I must say that
we were not real thrilled about it. Granted, it was fairly clean and prices
were not bad, but the woman who was feeding the birds as we walked in had
a cigarette lit up the whole time. When she would finish one, she would light
up another, which I don't imagine is too healthy for birds, especially to have
smoke blowing in their faces as they are trying to eat.

The store is fairly small, and as I walked into the fish area, there was the
owner's cat sleeping on the floor underneath the fish tanks as if to be
waiting for his lunch.

As Linda Compton had mentioned in a previous note, the pair of orange-wings
that were bonded were just gorgeous and very reasonably priced, but I would
never seperate them. We had been looking for a CAIQUE, which they did have,
but this bird was in no way tame.

Also, some of the signs that said TAME, there is no way that some of these
birds were tame. A tame bird would not crouch and hiss and growl when 
approached. 

All in all, it did have it's good points, but for the most part, I don't
think it was worth the trip.

The worker was very friendly and happy to discuss birds with us, but for all
the good things we had heard about this place, and due to the fact that we drove
from Maynard to Holden, it was somewhat of a disappointment.