I HAVE no sympathy with anyone who keeps any bird locked for life in a cage.

A bird is meant to be free to fly. If they had to spend some time in the same conditions that are simply imposed upon birds and animals in cages, they would cease to pursue this barbaric practice.

If the RSPCA finds the woman who is selling these parakeets from a van, she should be punished by a spell in prison.

J Girvin

Archibald Road

St Leonard's, Exeter