[QUOTE=John_W;459226]I use to live in Pensacola, Florida for 6 years and had owned two different homes during that time with pools. Neither had a bird case, just a privacy fence. In fact I never saw a bird cage the entire time I was in Pensacola and there are thousands of pools there.
Awhile back we visited a good friend in the Pensacola area who talked about his birdcage. He said that his was unuual for the area because of the area's proximity to hurricanes. Apparently the locals who do have cages cut all the screens preceeding a hurricane in an attempt to avoid structural damage to the framework. His birdcage appeared to be built twice as strong with double the bracing as one sees in TV. I assume it cost double of ours, not to mention the cost of re-screening every 2, 3 or 4 years.
I also have a Miami native as a neighbor, and he told me that if TV is ever threatened with a strong hurricane he was planning to cut his screens to save the basic metal structure.
The only problem we have with our birdcage is that the local squirrels will chew holes in the screens if we leave food outside unattended for a good period of time.
