Prevue Pet Products Flight Cage, Brown/Black SP1804-5

My parakeet needed to downsize from his last cage because he’s nearly 18, elderly, and the far fall potential was worrying me. He loves this new cage! He has the lavender purple one. The build quality is superior to, or on par with, any similar wire cage I’ve had—besides the last one he had with a solid metal frame. I really like how the hooks wrap around the bars in an alternating way to further support the structure. Make sure the sides are assembled facing the correct way. It took me about 15 minutes to assemble with no tools. It goes together in a very supportive way, despite it bring lightweight (what I needed to carry him to each room with me). Like other users said, support the bottom when holding because only those a few hooks are supporting the base and the top (which should be fine because they are very taut, but you never know). However, a major difference is his last cage has a broad metal frame on wheels (the common big one you see for about $100, white)—and this is all wire. So it’s a bit loud opening the door! Door opening is very easy tho. Removing him and accessing things is a BREEZE. I love that it has 4 doors: two feeder doors, a smaller opening door in front, and a huge door that opens. You could pop the top off with some significant effort, but it’s very simple and fast too, if needed. Please consider the noise factor because we personally weren’t used to it. His last cage wasn’t silent either, but this type of wire cage has some more echoing noise than a solid cage on wheels that has a big metal frame. But we have to pick our battles! Again, we needed the mobility in a home with multiple levels. I got the “Like New” one for $45, and there isn’t a better price on Amazon for the size. It was completely new and unused, unlike the slightly dusty vacuum cleaner I got that was “Like New.” The three perches are a good dimension for his feet. I think he really likes the food containers. They have rounded covers and interesting plastic perches that he’s apprehensive to use, but will be better for his feet. I wish it was 17” deep instead of 14”, but this width is definitely okay. I added millet holding clips, a wooden mirror perch, seed sticks, an extra perch for millet, a short white seed catcher, his plastic girlfriend toy and favorite perch, some auto-sensory toys like a wall net with toys on it and a dried grass toy from Prevue. **If you have cats or hazards, do not use the big door for safety reasons.** We just had a close call and thankfully he is very intelligent and knew not to fly out. Pets and hazards need to be locked out of the room, windows closed, fans off, candles out, if you even consider opening that big door because the cage’s size makes it very easy for them to accidentally fly out. Otherwise, it is very safe!! 10/10 for the price. Thank you, Prevue!! You never disappoint and not sure what the bird community would do without you!

Easy to assemble. Decent quality. Affordable. Suits our need for a flight cage for two parakeets. I think it looks nice. The birdies are happy. I bought it with the Prevue stand (separately).

Update to the con list (3 months later): Replacement dowel perches are nowhere to be found. Our budgies love the cage and get plenty of exercise, but they chewed through one of the dowel bars and this company does not sell replacements for this cage. Since our birds love to have a couple of long perches and we didn't want to change the set-up, we had to special order bird-safe perches from a wood crafter. And a side note is that we always remove the wire grid at the bottom because every budgy we've ever had likes to ground forage. We clean the cage and replace bottom paper each day so it is safe for them. We've had budgies for a lot of years and needed a new cage. Pet stores near us don't have a lot of bird cage choices so we were glad to find this one on Amazon. I bought screw-on perches in various sizes, which work great in this cage. After shopping around, this was the best one with 1/2 inch bars that I could find in this size. Pros: This cage is pretty and we love the purple color. It's easy to put together and a decent price. It's also roomy for our 2 budgies to exercise and play and has the 1/2 inch bars that are safe for them. It has a lot of places to hang toys and the seed and water dishes are sturdy (we keep the cover off the water one since smaller birds can fall in, get stuck, and drown). And our metal fruit/veggie/millet clips fit the bars perfectly. The birds have room to fly back and forth and exercise their wings. Cons: Cheaper quality than older cages from the 1990's that we're used to. Since the tray is plastic and not the sturdy aluminum of the older cages, it sticks a lot when trying to slide it in and out, which makes cleaning harder than it should be. Two of the 3 wooden perches aren't sized properly and slide around too much. The metal bars are also thinner and bend easier than the older cages but that seems to be the trend these days. The smaller doors slide easily and don't have latches, so we use twist ties to keep the birds from opening them, but this has been a problem with some cages in the past.

Nice size for my little bird. Easy to clean.

A very nice bird cage. Easy to put together. Easy to clean. Food and water cups have a cover. Pull out tray is easy to remove and put back in for cleaning, and fits perfectly back into the bottom of the cage. Big enough to give a small bird flying space for exercise. A stand with roller for the cage is available, but must be bought separately. I could not find a cage cover for this cage which is disappointing. I use a blanket, but it does not fit well.

Sturdy bird cage! Easy to assemble, great size. Loveee the color! Neutral. Loveee the food and water feeders

That cage is the perfect. It is so easy to clean and plenty of room.

So disappointed in this cage! When we opened the box it came in, the door latch was just lying amongst the other parts??? Anyway, we put it together thinking they would tell us how to attach it correctly, but it was not even shown as a separate part. The other thing about this cage that did concern me is that there is a huge gap at the front on both sides that my little birds could easily get stuck in. Not worth the risk so my husband didn't feel it necessary to try and improvise a solution to the door lock. It is packaged up to go back. I do have to say as well that the wires to this cage are very "bendy" and not strong at all. The cage our two keets are in now is much better constructed so I think we will just stick with that one.

Love the cage its big and spacious for my little birdie, however im not a fan of the floor of it, its the same as the walls and my bird cannot walk on it he seems uncomfortable so i placed magazines on it to make it comfortable but it will be a pain to clean up. Also beware the hatches to put water and food dont have any mechanism to stop it sliding up if to your bird learns how to open it so they may escape. I got around this by tying it with wire.

Arrived on time. The cage itself was in the original manyfacturer's packaging (plain cardboard box), which Amazon packaged in their own, much larger box. So it was huuuge. Setup was easy, didn't need the instructions. The walls all clip into eachother. Nothing was bent or broken and no missing pieces. The walls are a bit flexible, fine for birds, but easily bend if sticking perches through the bars. Has one large square door in the middle for easy access, that slides into place. Has a smaller door embedded within that large square door that slides up, for easy, quick things. The food and water bowls sit on either side of the main door and are removable. They are accessed through their own, individual sliding door. Could replace with a bath or other toy if I felt like it. bottom has a removable tray, that has about a 1 inch lip- perfect for filling with pellet bedding instead of using newspaper. It slides out easily, and above it is a grill so the birds can't pick through. I am currently housing 2 lineolated parakeets in it (for those who don't know linnies, they're between the size of a budgie and partotlet). Birds seem to like it and so do I. Plenty of horizontal room for some light flying.

Bon format de cage pour une ou 2 perruches. Facile à nettoyer, elle a une très grosse porte à l’avant très pratique.

They have much more room to fly about and more perches the only fault is the perches tend to move about which I am going to have to fix.

Lovely cage, just a bit difficult to clean. You can't remove the bottom cage grit to fully clean it once the cage is properly assembled. You can wipe it down within the cage, just make sure birdy can hang outside of the cage as it may be a bit stressful having the bottom part lifted up weird and you trying to scrub it!! If you can powerwash then awesome!! Otherwise it is a bit of a struggle.