Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Bird Pets/10/en

Cage: Do not keep a canary in a round cage, or it will develop psychological problems. A square cage will avoid this problem.
Drafts: Keep the canary away from drafts.
Water: Make sure the canary always has fresh water. A canary will die in as little as 15 hours without water.
Food: Use a high quality, fresh seed mix. If the seeds can germinate, they are fresh. You can test for this by wrapping some seed in a wet paper towel, placing them in a plastic bag, and storing in a warm place for about a week. If the seeds have not sprouted by then, they were not fresh. Give your canary a serving of greens every day. A healthy canary can consume half its body weight per day in greens. Use broccoli, romaine lettuce, collards, or even dandelion greens.
Sanitation: Replace the paper on the cage floor every day and clean the cage and perch weekly. Do not use perfumes or air fresheners around a canary. These birds are highly sensitive to airborne toxins, which is why they were used in mines - to detect deadly gases. Unfortunately, the gases were detected by the death of the canary, but it often gave the miners time to escape before succumbing themselves.