Reusing and Old Cage

[finiteguy]

I recently posted here that our budgie, Tweety, died of a nasty tumor a couple of weeks ago. We immediately went out and bought another budgie (Brady). I did a thorough cleaning of the cage and replaced the toys and perches. I looked for a new replacement cage and couldn't find anything that I liked better than what we had. My question: Is there any reason why we shouldn't re use the cage. I was told this weekend that you shouldn't use the cage from a former budgie, but the person who told me that could not explain any reason why you shouldn t use the old cage.

[milliej]

Hmm don't know why not unless it's very old and rusty or falling to bits I've re-used cages before until they got to the point where I thought best get a new one.

[Deleted]

The only time I would have thought that you couldn't reuse the cage was if the old budgie had died of a highly infectious disease. I don't think that there are any contagious tumours in any species and if you cleaned the cage thoroughly then I would have thought that everything would be fine.

[Rachael Kellett]

If it is rusty or damaged then you should use it but as long as the cage itself and all of its contents have been thoroughly cleaned, I recommend F10sc, then there shouldn't be a problem

[Hezz]

No reason not to re-use a perfectly good cage. A tumour certainly isn't contagious, and a good wash and scrub as you would normally, should see you straight.

[ruthpaton]

I used the same cage for Pepito, after a good disinfect and clean out. It's a good idea to replace perches and toys etc as you did but the cage should be fine.