In each case the number of animals for adoption was lowered, enabling improvements to housing such as portalizing cages,
replacing small cages with larger double compartment condos, or simply opening connecting doors between condos that had previously been closed.
This must be done with
cages in the store as well as at home, and it is best to
replace these types of perches more often to avoid health issues such as the transmission of scaly mites, which are seen most often in the
smaller birds such as canaries and parakeets.