Tiny travel cages in emergency?

[Nowthats3]

We have quite a few pets and not much room in the car. Anyone else keep tiny cages (for budgies, cockateils, small conures ect) for emergency transport, easy to find no assembly needed? I feel bad having them, but they came in handy when I took public transport as they are not heavy. I was only taking him in this cage for travel home.

 

[Toy]

Yep. No reason to feel bad. Small travel cages keep them safe. We use plastic dog crates for our U2, CAG & B&G Macaw. We use folded towels in the bottom & just toss them in the washer once home.

 

[Zara]

I have tiny cages. I use them for vet visits (my vet is just 10 minutes away). They are lightweight and small. I have a handfull and they all fit inside an IKEA bag - which is my emergency evac plan.

 

[Mizzely]

Tiny is better for traveling!

 

[Nowthats3]

Good to know. Thanks for the replies.

 

[Sparkles99]

I keep two ‘starter kit’ sized ones. I have extras in case of fighting, but during our recent move I just used the two. It’s more practical & would allow me to easily evacuate everyone.

 

[flwindsurf]

This is C4 in her travel cage. I try to put her in her travel cage daily and take her outside for about 5 minutes. Hopefully she'll find her travel cage to be a happy place for future vet visits, hurricane evacuations, etc.

 

[Spearmint]

Yep! Small cages are safest for travelling.
I still need to get a new one haha.

 

[Sparkles99]

I’d prioritize this, if possible!

 

[Shezbug]

I think most of us have smaller emergency or travel cages.
My budgie cage for transporting or emergencies isn’t quite that small unfortunately as I do like those weeny cages for traveling but it is way smaller than his daily cage.
My carrier for my cocky is a cat crate which actually needs replacing due to his damage from chewing it and the carrier for my macaw is a pak o bird.
It is safer to travel with birds in smaller cages than large cages where they can move about more.

 

[Shannan]

I think it's a great idea for everyone with pets to have an evacuation plan with all of the components including evacuation cages. I have a lot of animals (a farm) and so I have had very thought out plans for if I ever have to evacuate the entire farm. It will be very very tight but I can get everyone off the mountain in a single trip. Never had to use it but did have to evacuate from a couple of hurricanes when I lived on the coast.

 

[Nowthats3]

I think it's a great idea for everyone with pets to have an evacuation plan with all of the components including evacuation cages. I have a lot of animals (a farm) and so I have had very thought out plans for if I ever have to evacuate the entire farm. It will be very very tight but I can get everyone off the mountain in a single trip. Never had to use it but did have to evacuate from a couple of hurricanes when I lived on the coast.

I have quite a few animals myself. All the carriers are in closets close by, I wanna be able to grab all of them and pack them up.