Flooring around bird cage

We have all the birds listed above. We have hardwood floors. Around the amazon and U2 we put an area carpet down because my boyfriend thought it would be easy to vacuum up once dried...not really.

The main concern is around the U2 cage. Her poop is very different and harder to clean. The other birds it comes up easily. I am also concerned about it damaging the floor. Personally, I'd rather put newspapers around the cage and just change them but he doesn't like that idea.

So what, if anything, do you put around your birds cage to catch poop, or do you just let it go on the floor and clean it up every day.

We have been using rugs, but now that we live in a rainy climate (used to be able to hose em off and they'd dry in the sun, not anymore!), I'm leaning towards a piece of scrap linoleum.

I use a clear plastic that is used for making outdoor tablecloths. It is easily mopped, vacuumed, or hosed off depending I the spillage.

It comes from an outdoor/gardening type shop and you can buy it by the metre.

I've got desk chair pads under two of my cages and vinyl carpet runners under the other three, but am planning to put chair pads under the rest as the edges of the vinyl runners tend to curl over time.....

I have vynial tiles under Riley's cage. I sweep under and around her cage once a day then use my spray mop I have the o'ceader brand that allows you to use any cleaner in it and I wash the mop pad after every use or sometimes I wait til I have used all three and wash them together.

At this time Valentino's cage is in the dining room. It is layed with high quality linoleum. It has held up well over the past 12 years but it does show wear as the cage is 210 pounds and I move it all over a lot with the cleaning.

Although I don't know where we will be moving next and I hope it does not end up in a place with carpet as my only option. If that is the case I will take with me the left over linoleum and lay that down where the cage will be. I am hoping to have enough left over for the Java tree too. At this time I am using office chair square plastic things (it takes two to cover and just barely) then I take paper grocery bags and lay them out with the bottom "curl" facing up to catch pieces of plastic, wood and what not. It does not look very pretty but the grocery bags do the job. They are brown thick paper that catches wet droppings well and do not leak the fluid past the paper. I also use the paper grocery bags to line the bottom of the Java tree as the wood used is not very sealed and is porous so cleaning poop off of that is a nightmare.

I am running out of newspaper with no way to get more so I will probably be using the brown grocery bags to line the cage as well. They don't "crumple" up nicely like newspaper but it is the best option I have as I can easily grab extra unused bags when I bag my groceries.

Hello. Just wanted to say that I use a trunk liner under the cage of my goffins cockatoo. My dads friend was throwing it away after selling his suv, I put it under the cage and its rim helps keep all the food that bounces around on the floor in a more concentrated area. My cockatoo is out all day long except for nightly sleeps--so she can make quite a mess. I can even pour a glass of water in the liner, use a wet mop to get the liner extra clean. So much better than anything else I tried! Hope it helps!

Guess I didn't pay attention when I first posted to this thread, but if your Massachusetts wooden floors are by chance in an 18th or 19th century home, they could be a period wood that would require refinishing if the poop stained them.....

I'd follow one of the suggestions that would keep the poop off the floors.....

Good luck.....