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Pretty Birdies

After months of promises and delays, we finally got the kids a budgie each yesterday. We had a nice cage already, thanks to D.'s garbage-day scavenging, and now it has two very pretty little birds in it. They're kind of a compromise between no pets and real pets, ie., dogs and cats.

I've never wanted to keep a bird in a cage; it just seems so wrong to me. But we hope to let these guys fly around the house and sit on our hands and generally become part of the family, so maybe their existence won't be so sad. We'll see. They certainly seem to be happy to be by the window, where they can look out and see green and trees blowing in the wind and other birds flying about, sights they've never experienced in their few months out of the egg so far.

Does anybody have any suggestions as to where I might procure some fresh Eucalyptus branches and/or leaves? Apparently budgies evolved in a symbiotic relationship with the Eucalyptus, and having it in their cage makes them happy and can even keep them free of mites.