Exactly What Fifty Dollars Buys
The whole offer in plain terms, including the parts most boarders leave off the page. One flat fifty-dollar fee per cage, any trip 3 to 21 nights. Rajan does not offer frills and does not pretend to. If what follows is not what you want, you will know before you call rather than after.
Fifty dollars per cage, per trip
Not per night. One flat fifty-dollar fee covers the whole stay, any length from three to twenty-one nights. A three-night trip and a three-week trip cost the same. There is no length surcharge and no peak-season rate.
Up to three small birds in one cage, no second-bird charge
The fee is per cage, not per bird. Three budgies or a pair of finches sharing one cage is still fifty dollars. Some small birds share comfortably and others need their own space, so the species affects how the room is set up, not the price.
Small caged birds only, and here is the full exclusion list
Budgies, cockatiels, canaries, finches, lovebirds, small conures, diamond doves and parrotlets. Rajan does not accept macaws, cockatoos, African Greys, Amazons, Eclectus, Pionus, large conures, raptors, waterfowl or poultry. Better to read that here than to be turned away at the door.
Your bird stays in its own cage for the entire stay
The cage you drop off is the cage your bird lives in until you collect it, kept in a quiet room. Nothing is moved between enclosures and nothing is mixed with another household's birds.
What Rajan does not do, stated plainly
No photo updates. No scheduled video calls. No written care journal. No out-of-cage handling time. No pre-stay meet-and-greet. These are the corners that are cut, and cutting them is the reason the price is what it is. If you want any of them, another boarder is a better fit and Rajan will say so.
Seven dollars per drop-in check, if you would rather not move your bird
For birds that stress badly at a change of room, Rajan will come to your home instead. Seven dollars per visit, your bird stays in its own cage in its own house. For a short trip this is usually both cheaper and calmer than boarding.