| 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 |
My beautiful male singing canary died over this weekend. He was banded
in 1990 so he wasn't that old. He never showed any sign of being sick.
Good color, peeping, and singing days before. Just went to sleep around
4:00 on Sat. which I thought was kind of strange. Then Sun morning I
went to give him his food and water and there he was on the bottom of
the cage with his eyes closed and head still tucked under his wing.
Can anyone tell me if I killed him by having my programmable
thermostat change temps during the day and at night? Night and while I
was at work house set to 53, 65 when I am home. Or the fact that I had
the cieling fan in the room circulating. I did that all summer and it
didn't seem to effect him.
Oh, dear. I really miss him.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 847.1 | About average. | UTROP1::BOSMAN_P | Tue Feb 01 1994 08:53 | 19 | |
Sorry to hear you pet died. It can leave quite a void indeed.
No, not likely the thermostat killed him, can't possibly think of how.
Over three years old is not record breakingly old, but it is actualy not
very young either.
Please remember that Canaries belong to a bird group totally differing
from parrots and which not nearly grows as old. Also they are even smaller
than budgies and in general: the smaller the less old.
A canary should, again in general, therefore not be expected to live
nearly as long as a budgie. Yours probably died of natural causes.
So once again I feel sorry for you, but don't fret about it and good
luck if you decide to get a new friend. If you want to address this
conference about that, a different note might bring more responses.
Try: "WRITE".
Regards,
Peter
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