Abstract: An improved animal habitat cage with waste disposal flooring. A cage body is formed from a top wall and four side walls removably suspended by legs attached to each sidewall. In a first embodiment, a pullout movable bottom that defines a floor on the cage body is used in conjunction with a plurality of scraping elements. The scraping elements may be placed along a cross-member attached between opposing front legs and are constructed and arranged to maintain contact with a top surface of the movable bottom. The bottom is pulled out from the cage body and the scraping elements push waste matter towards the edge of the tray and into the container. An alternative embodiment employs a hinged floor for waste disposal wherein waste matter is directed to a container.

Abstract: A covering for an animal crate is described. In accordance with one implementation, a covering is configured to prevent an amount of an animal's hair, dirt, or mess created by the animal from escaping through at least one aperture located on a lower portion of a wall of a crate. The covering comprises a panel operably attached to the lower portion of the wall of the crate. The panel is of a length and height sufficient to prevent an amount of the animal's hair, dirt, or mess created by the animal from escaping through the at least one aperture located on the lower portion of the wall of the crate.

Abstract: Feeder protection apparatus comprising a plurality of side panels attached around a periphery of the base of the feeder by a plurality of fasteners. Each side panel comprises a generally rectangular sheet configured to be oriented generally perpendicular to the base when attached thereto and to extend above and below the base.

Abstract: A device for holding animal waste pads having raised peripheral sidewalls surrounding a base for containing a waste pad, and sidewall extensions attachable to the sidewalls to contain and direct an animal to an appropriate position in the use of the animal waste pads.

Abstract: A bird feeder comprises a feed container, a connector having an open passage therethrough, a feeding tray, a funnel and a collection container. The feeding tray includes a sleeve into which the connector extends to provide a self refilling feed mound from which birds eat. Discarded seeds and seed hulls fall into the funnel and into the collection container. The feeding tray includes a disk located below an upper edge of the funnel to maximize collection of seed hulls and discarded seeds. In some embodiments, the feeding tray is pivotally attached to the connector.

Abstract: A cage for small animals includes a generally closed base having an open top; a grating structure upon the base forming a closed structure for containing an animal therein; and a refuse catcher surrounding the grating structure and removably fastened to the base so as to permit the refuse catcher to be removed from the base by being detached from the base and moved upward away from the base without removing the grating structure from the base. The cage can be a bird cage, wherein the refuse catcher is a seed catcher that is formed of a plurality of mating parts, the parts being releasable attached to each other and to the base.

Abstract: The bird waste catcher for a cage door is a device that is adapted for mounting on the door of a standard wire mesh birdcage. A pair of brackets attaches to the cage door with nuts and bolts and supports a detachable receptacle. The receptacle is mounted on the door of the birdcage for catching excrement and other debris created by a pet bird perched on top of the birdcage door.

Abstract: A feeder apparatus comprises a plurality of walls defining a feeder body, mounting structure, and a feed holder. The feeder body is hingedly, optionally hingedly and/or removably, mounted to the mounting structure. In some embodiments, the feeder apparatus further includes a blocking plate which is hingedly, optionally hingedly and removably, mounted to the mounting structure. One or more of the feeder body walls and the feed holder have cooperating sliding structures, enabling the feed holder to be slidingly received into, and/or removed from the remainder of the feeder apparatus.

Abstract: The Birdcage Catchall and the Protector Panels are pet accessories and are used to catch seed, feathers and debris that falls from the birdcages. The catchall is suspended under the cage and forms a barrier around and under the cage to catch debris. The Protector Panels, when used with the catchall aid in additional cleanliness and also insure protection from drafts and sunlight. Both elements are made of printed washable fabric and are hung onto the cage with metal hooks.

Abstract: A bird cage having a frame including a base assembly, cover assembly and corner towers that join the base and cover assemblies. The front, back, sides and top of the cage are enclosed by wire grills. The towers are made of light pervious material such as clear or translucent plastic and carry feeding stations. The cage is expandable. The base assembly includes an easily removable tray for collecting droppings in the cage, and the tray carries a wire grill platform within the cage which may be removed by partially withdrawing the tray and without otherwise disturbing the base assembly. A bird cage stand composed of two identical but inverse sub-assemblies provides storage space for feed and cage accessories.

Abstract: The suspended bird-feed catcher of the present invention includes a pan suitable for receiving and holding bird feed that falls out of a bird feeder and prevents the bird feed from falling to the ground. The pan is suspended from the same apparatus from which the bird feeder is suspended so the pan can be easily removed without disrupting the bird feeder.

Abstract: This invention is a bird seed collector providing a suspended reservoir beneath a wild bird feeder.

Abstract: An antiperch device for deterring birds from perching on undesired perch locations. The device includes various embodiments which are constructed of wires forming arcs and/or wires that are parallel to and spaced above an object such as a light fixture to be protected. The wires are sufficiently flexible and have a small enough diameter to prevent the birds from getting a secure footing thereon but are sufficiently stiff to keep the birds from reaching the object.

Abstract: An aviary for housing animals having a floor, a plurality of side walls and a ceiling forming at least one main room and a vestibule separate from the main room. The vestibule has at least two doors, one interior door and one exterior door, that allow people to enter and leave the aviary while keeping the animals securely housed within the main room, away from the exterior door of the aviary. The aviary has at least one footing with a pest shroud for keeping rodents and the like from climbing the footing up to the aviary.

Abstract: A modular birdhouse in accordance with the present invention includes a support pole, a collar, at least one wire form and at least one nest module. First, the collar is slidably connected to the pole. The wire form has a square shape, and the ends of the wire form are upturned and inserted into corresponding openings in the collar. The collar includes coordinated flanges with fasteners that fix the wire forms to the collar. Two or more collars can be interconnected in a stacked manner to create tiers of nest modules. Each nest module has a plurality of connector slots. For attachment, the nest module is positioned within the square shape of the wire form and then rotated until the connector slots of the nest module engage the wire form. A porch structure interconnects the wire form to the nest module to prevent further rotation and disengagement of the nest module. Nest modules may be added or removed from the wire forms as desired by the operator and without the use of tools and/or implements.

Abstract: A birdhouse entrance is provided with an entrance opening having two posts projecting vertically from the bottom edge of the opening toward the top edge. The two posts are spaced apart such that a bird of selected size cannot pass between them without opening its wings. Sufficient clearance for the wings is provided between the outer edges of the posts and the side edges of the entrance opening.

Abstract: A birdrest structure comprises an upright post, a waste receptacle, and a horizontal rod on which a bird is rested. The birdrest structure can be fastened to the wall by a fastening device which is fastened with the bottom end of the upright post. The birdrest structure can be hanged on the backrest of a car seat by a hanging frame which is fastened with the bottom end of the upright post. The birdrest structure can be placed at a level on the floor by a support frame which is fastened with the waste receptacle.

Abstract: A decorative, washable, protective panel that is adhered to a wall adjacent to bird cage, to prevent bird eating splatter, whereby the washable panel protects a wall adjacent to a bird cage by capturing bird food splatter, wherein further the protective panel does not need to be attached to the cage. Fasteners, such as push pins having peelable release liners exposing adhesive thereunder, attach the back surface of the frame to a wall. The push pins have a pointed shaft, a head, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer and a release liner which is peeled off to expose the adhesive layer prior to attachment to the frame. The panel includes a front layer which is a transparent washable layer such as vinyl, acrylic sheet, polycarbonate sheet or glass. To this is attached a decorative panel layer.

Abstract: A bird seed collector is located beneath a bird seed feeder and is attached to the feeder for receiving seed dislodged from the feeder. A mesh barrier extends adjacent an open end of the collector permitting seed passage while barring entry of birds or rodents into the collector. A cross member in the collector receives a hook for feeder attachment. The barrier is shaped to occupy a cross sectional area of the downwardly convergent shaped collector which prevents tipping of the barrier. Engagement of the cross member and barrier additionally supports the barrier against displacement. The collector may be formed from flexible sheet material.

Abstract: A cage guard which is adaptable to a variety of cage shapes and types is described in the present invention. The cage guard is a flexible form composed of a nonporous bottom portion, an optional nonporous side portion, a porous side portion, and band to secure the cage guard to a cage. The cage guard is produced in such a way that it conforms to the cage. This gives the cage guard the advantageous property of keeping debris and excretions inside the cage so the animal can be enjoyed in a clean, sanitary way.

Abstract: A self-cleaning multistage bird feeder having a plurality of truncated hollow cones or funnels stacked vertically end to end. The truncated cones are stacked large end up with adjacent cones being spaced apart to define a plurality of annular feeding troughs. The feeder includes a cover over the uppermost cone and a disc under the lowermost cone. Perches extend outwardly from the cones and the disc. Bird food consequently travels downward through the feeder due to the feeding action of the birds. Bird food is purged from the bottom of the feeder and spills onto an apertured tray suspended under the disc. Additionally a hopper type feeder comprising a single truncated hollow cone or funnel, cover, disc and apertured tray wherein the disc provides a self cleaning platform feeding area and the disc and suspended tray provide superior viewing of feeding activity compared to conventional hopper type feeders.

Abstract: A cage guard which is adaptable to a variety of cage shapes and types is described in the present invention. The cage guard is a flexible form composed of a nonporous bottom portion, an optional nonporous side portion, a porous side portion, and means to secure the cage guard to a cage. The cage guard is produced in such a way that it conforms to the cage. This gives the cage guard the advantageous property of keeping debris and excretions inside the cage so the animal can be enjoyed in a clean, sanitary way.

Abstract: An improved seed catching cage apron includes four identical pieces. Each piece is a substantially trapezoidal sheet having long parallel sides and short angled sides. An L-shaped tab is located on one of the angled sides near the longer of the parallel sides and an angled flange extends along most of the length of the other angled side. The angle of the angled sides and the angle of the angled flange are such that when four of the pieces are arranged together, the parallel sides of adjacent pieces meet at right angles with the angled flange of each sheet lying parallel to the surface of an adjacent sheet. In this configuration, the L-shaped tab of each sheet interlocks the angled flange of an adjacent sheet. According to the preferred embodiment, a notch is provided on each angled side near the short parallel side for receiving and engaging a corner post of a rectangular cage structure.

Abstract: A cage guard which is adaptable to a variety of cage shapes and types is described in the present invention. The cage guard is a flexible form composed of a nonporous bottom portion, an optional nonporous side portion, a porous side portion, and means to secure the cage guard to a cage. The cage guard is produced in such a way that it conforms to the cage. This gives the cage guard the advantageous property of keeping debris and excretions inside the cage so the animal can be enjoyed in a clean, sanitary way.

Abstract: A debris catching trough for debris catching troughs for depending below a bird cage for collecting debris that falls out from the sides of the bird cage. The debris catching trough includes an open trough having spaced apart inner and outer side walls and a bottom wall connecting the inner and outer side walls of the trough together, the inner side wall of the trough defining a central opening. A plurality of spaced apart hangers upwardly extend from the bottom face of the trough to permit hanging of said ring trough beneath a bird cage.

Abstract: A light weight, easily collapsible bird house with a detachable water repellent rainfly/sunshade. The system is made of fabric with removable tension rods, and can be packed flat for transport or storage.

Abstract: A new seed platform for suspending below a bird feeder to catch feed that falls from the feeder. The inventive device includes a platform having a perimeter frame portion and a central portion. The central portion of the platform is generally flat and has a plurality of apertures of a predetermined size through it. A number of hooks are coupled to the upper face of frame portion of the platform. Each of the hooks has one end of an associated flexible member hooked thereon. The other end of each of the flexible members is attachable to the bottom of a bird feeder to suspend the platform below the bird feeder.

Abstract: A cage particularly adapted for maintaining birds in a residential setting includes an upper enclosure having spaced apart, bar-formed top wall, bottom wall, and sidewalls. Corner posts of the enclosure are carried on corner posts of a caster riding carriage allowing ready cage relocation. Slidably carried by the carriage below the enclosure bottom wall is a bottom tray. The attached to the carriage and positioned about a lower end of the enclosure is a seed deflection screen. This screen includes a set of readily removable side panels having fastening elements that slide into openings in the carriage posts. The deflection screen additionally includes a front and a rear panel having end flanges that slip into channels on ends of the side panels to form interference fits. As carried, bottom edges of the screen panels are positioned to divert any seeds striking the panels into the bottom tray.

Abstract: This invention is a protected enclosure to allow upland game birds including bobwhite quail to be introduced into and to thrive in the wild with low mortality rate. This is accomplished through the use of an acclimation portion where the birds become used to feeding and watering in the protected enclosure while being allowed to ingress and egress between the acclimation portion and the feeding and watering portion. Provision is made for one or more call birds to be isolated after the acclimation period upon initial introduction into the wild. The call bird or birds can then be reunited with the covey. Commercially available cooked ration can be used which allows vitamins, minerals and other supplements to be added to the normal diet of the birds.

Abstract: A rodent pest infestation prevention assembly includes a wall for surrounding a predetermined area so as to enclose items, a plurality of top and bottom slits in the wall for making interlocking connection with one another for fastening end portions of the wall together so as to make the wall a substantially continuous structure about an item, and at least one holder member for maintaining the wall in an upright position. The wall may also have a plurality of spaced apart holes formed therein. At least one mateable bolt and nut combination are installed through aligned holes to secure overlapped end portions of the wall to one another and thereby serve the same function as the top and bottom slits of the wall. Each holder member has a base and a pair of elongated pegs. The base has a transverse groove and a pair of recessed holes on adjacent opposite sides of the groove. The groove is for receiving a bottom edge of the wall therein.

Abstract: A bird feeder for recapturing bird feed for re-use, the bird feeder including a feed reservoir for receiving bird feed and having a feeder opening, a trough coupled to the feed reservoir at the feed opening for receiving feed from the feed reservoir, and a recapture reservoir coupled to the feed reservoir for receiving and collecting uncontaminated bird feed displaced from the trough.

Abstract: A bird-feed recycler having a base frame (1) with a screen (2) and a pole attachment (6) for a bird-feeder pole (4). The base frame is sized, shaped and structured for positioning either under a bird feeder (3) at a base of a pole, on a pole at a desired height or under a bird feeder suspended from an object such as a limb (11) of a tree or part of a structure (10). A bird-feeder perch (12) can be positioned at a design distance from a bird-feeder trough (13) to catch feces of birds eating from the bird-feeder trough.

Abstract: A retaining skirt or barrier is provided for animal cages. A skirt comprising a sheet, preferably made from a clear plastic or polymer material, is provided that can be wrapped around the bottom portion of an animal cage. The two ends of the skirt can be detachably and adjustably connected to one another so that a skirt of a single length can be utilized on animal cages of varying sizes.

Abstract: A squirrel baffler wherein the baffler consists of a conical shaped sheet member supported by a bracket assembly which prevents a squirrel or other unwanted animal from climbing a pole or post supporting a bird house or feeder. The conical shaped sheet member may be disassembled and assembled around the pole by use of interlocking members running the length of the sheet member such that the user does not have to remove the bird feeder from the pole or remove the pole from the ground first.