Amir Khela runs Lakeshore Bird Care out of a quiet boarding room in Burlington, about 12 minutes from most Appleby addresses. Fifty dollars per cage for the whole trip — any length from 3 to 21 nights, same price. Up to three small birds share one cage. No per-bird fees, no photo package add-ons, no weekend premiums, no long drives to Oakville or Mississauga for a boutique avian boarder.
Same price for Appleby residents as for everyone else in Burlington. No zone surcharges. No travel fee inside the city. No holiday premiums. The Trip Flat Rate is the cheapest option for any stay 5 nights or longer.
Appleby is the east end of Burlington, running from the QEW down to the lake and into Bronte to the east. It is family-neighbourhood territory — a lot of three-bedroom houses, a lot of first-bird households, and a lot of owners who started with one budgie and now have three in a bigger cage because budgies are social creatures. Amir boards a lot of Appleby flocks, which is exactly the kind of customer the flat per-cage rate is built for.
The short version of why Appleby bird owners end up at Amir's room: short drive, trip-flat rate, small-bird expertise, no sales pitch. You send the dates through the form, you drop the cage off, you pick it up when you are back. The whole trip costs fifty dollars. Same price whether you are gone for a long weekend or three weeks. No surprises.
“I live off Appleby Line and the closest premium avian boarder wanted four hundred dollars for a nine-night trip for my parrotlet. Four hundred dollars. For a bird that fits in a teacup. Amir charged me fifty dollars, flat, for the same nine nights. Same fifty if I had extended the trip to three weeks. I drove twelve minutes across Burlington instead of thirty to Oakville and saved three hundred fifty bucks. No contest.”
— Dhruv C., Appleby resident, one parrotlet
Same three budgies in the same cage. Same 12-minute drive for Appleby residents. Different boarder.
Forty-five dollars per bird per night at a typical GTA avian boarder. Plus the enrichment fee. Plus the photo update package. Plus the holiday surcharge if your trip lands on a long weekend.
Fifty dollars per cage, flat, for the whole trip. Three budgies share one cage. Any length 3-21 nights. No add-ons. No photo package. No holiday surcharge. Total at pickup: fifty dollars flat.
Premium boarder: $2,835 · Amir: still $50
Every extra night past the 7-night snapshot above is free at Amir's. The Appleby drive time does not change either. The gap at 21 nights is $2,785.
