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Dylan's Pets
Topic Started: Oct 3 2013, 03:58 AM (13,990 Views)
Stephen
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Dec 13 2013, 04:27 PM
Budgies are $20 here for any normal breed. The cheapest finches, Zebras, are about 8 dollars if you find them at the right time. But canaries are -at minimum- 100 dollars here. Usually considerably more.
That's sick...I just looked it up. A canary here costs between 11-20 euros (okay a bit more expensive than I expected), that's like 30$...Isn't it cheaper to buy one here and ship it to the US? I'd think so...
Budgies are equally expensive and zebra finches...I've found some for 1€, but I don't think that's from a good breeder. I think 8 - 15€ is a good average.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

None of my prices are from breeders (I did buy from pet shops), but for typical breeds (not fancy sorts, though) petshops are often more expensive. I couldn't find any finch breeders, though, so it was my best option.
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Stephen
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It was mostly the canaries I was talking about, from which the price was directly from a pet shop website. I mean, +100$ is quite shocking, that's almost one fifth of my dog xD
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

That's 100 dollars more than my dogs cost. xD
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Robbie
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Here in England, In the pet shop; all birds cost between £5-10 all of 'em!
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Even these guys? :P

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Robbie
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Not in the pet shop nearest to me(meaning we don't have them) But I get my pets from Bedford or St. Albans(quite close to me)Because they provide a variety, Including large Koi's, CAIMANS, snakes and lizards.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

When I was little everywhere sold baby caimans, but not since 2003.
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Jules
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These aren't even sold here, but it's like 1000-1500 € here to buy a Galah, an African Grey, an Amazon or a Cockatoo xD

I don't even want to imagine how much a macaw would cost.
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Robbie
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Well here, they still provide reptiles, birds and a average sized mammals(Rabbits and that)
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Jules
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Given they end up in the sewers, I'm not sure it's a good idea xD
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

I've never actually seen a macaw for sale, but our local shop has a resident bird who belongs to the owner. I think it's a scarlet.

Stores here don't really sell anything bigger than conures because they've realized there's not really much market and the birds just stay in-shop forever.
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Robbie
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I have seen that in america, yes. but here it's very strict you get asked for almost everything before buying them, And here I have never heard of them ending up in sewers xD we do get parrots here( but common ones)
Edited by Robbie, Dec 13 2013, 05:13 PM.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Most shops here just give you anything you ask for, which is bad.

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The other day I had to help the shop employees who had mixed up all of their finches and couldn't tell them apart. Because white society finches look so much like zebra finches...
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Woa, How did they get mixed up in the first place? xD
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