2012 Messenger – What will happen?

Posts Tagged ‘cage’

We were taking fireworks outside to put in his car, and his stepdad was bringing more out when she slipped out the door. It was very windy and she tried to turn around to land somewhere near the house, but the wind just blew her farther away and I could see she was a long ways away before I lost sight. (Her dot was gone before it headed for trees, and it’s a fairly flat landscape with shorter trees.) We looked for a long time after she was gone, but it was no use, she’d flown too far. I just want to know what are the chances. I know they have bad homing skills, I know they aren’t good at surviving in the wild. Especially not with all the booms from fireworks, and I think it was supposed to storm last night sometime, and there are a lot of hawks around here, and it’s very very hot out. ((Texas.)) So just give me a blunt answer; is there any chance she’ll come back, and if not, what are her chances of surviving? She was a nice bird, even if she didn’t like me(jealousy), and I don’t like to think of her being killed. ((My boyfriend and his mom both take the stance that birds aren’t meant to have their wings clipped or be kept cooped up in a cage all the time, and she’s only in a cage at night or when they take her to her big outdoor cage. I like birds a lot, and I’m all for that stance except for the heartache of losing the bird. If I ever get one, I’m clipping its wings.))

My 8 year old, 6 ft. iguana suddenly won’t poo without being floated. Food, vitamins, humidity levels, exercising have all been addressed with no change. Goes fine in tub but this is a problem because of his size and that I can’t go away and leave him with anyone else to care for him. Any suggestions how to retrain him to go in his cage?

The hamster babies are about 3 weeks old. I cleaned the cage once, I put them all in the other cage I have and the hamster mama went crazy, running around, picking them up and trying to get back to the 2nd cage – so i had to move pretty fast. It says online you’re supposed to seperate the babies, but I’m worried Mama will freak out, have a heart attack or something and keel over. So… do I seperate the babies from the mother to preserve the food consumption? do i put the males and females in seperate cages? (there is no papa) or do I just leave em be and watch at how 1 mama and 7 babies eat their food so fast!!! ha. help please.

My friend said it’s keeping an animal in captivity in a cage and it’s wrong.

He was telling me that I’m its jail warden.

I said that it’s keeping my turtle safe and fed.

What am I to think?

He told me to set it off free and that it has natural instincts.

From what I’ve read/heard, a domesticated turtle can’t be set free because it doesn’t have the same survival skills of a wild turtle.

What should I do?
My turtle is a red-eared slider. I keep him in a container of water. I would really let him live on a pond, if it was possible.

I got him from those illegal sellers in Chinatown when I was 12.. I didn’t know back then that it was illegal and wrong. I’ve kept him for about 6 years now.

Now my friend is saying that I should set him free because it’s sick that I keep him. He said that if I bring my turtle with me to his place, he would set it free on the creek.

I just feel horrible and the way he said things, I’m pretty much feeling guilty.

He’s the only person who would make me feel bad…..