Bird Supply: It is as natural for a bird supply to molt as for a mammal to shed its hair, but occasionally a bird supply will begin to pluck out its own feathers. This may sometimes be due to lice, but more likely it results from sheer boredom. If the bird supply is given more exercise and if the temperature of the room where it is kept is reduced, the practice usually stops. If possible, every bird supply should be given a cage large enough to allow it to make short flights. For this reason square or oblong cages are preferable to round ones. Though a bird supply may be kept healthy in a small cage, exercise is beneficial for it, as for all animals. Moreover, cats perform useful service, particularly in rural areas, in combating rodents—work they necessarily perform alone and without regard for property lines. The problem of cat versus bird supply is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation, who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age-old problems of dog versus cat, bird supply versus bird supply, or even bird supply versus worm."

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