Author: Mitch Rezman - General Manager
Website: http://blog.windycityparrot.com/2010/01/05/canaries–canary-…
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I have no canaries or finches but know a little (very little) about them. What I learned I learned from a former employee who also worked at Vahles pet shop here in Chicago before they closed on 2003. When Vahles closed they were the oldest pet shop in the US (fact not verified by me). Old man Vahle died several years earlier and the kids let the place run down. Vahles specialized in German Hartz Mountain Canaries.
The compartments were used so the males could not see the females. Male canaries sing because, for lack of a better term, they’re horny. Their song is to attract females. In most cases once a female comes into view, they stop singing. Now here’s where it gets a bit weird. If you put 2 male canaries in the same cage, they may/will fight, sometimes… |
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Canary owners enjoy them for their beauty , their size and especially their song. If you walked into Vahles in their hey day you would have seen them in small cage/compartments on one long wall. Hundreds of them.