Do you feed your birds in the winter?

Just read your posting. Sorry to hear you dont' have many birds. Poor cats though, gosh, with feline Leukemia. that is a cruel disease and contagious! I hope that town people will put in effort to treat the cats and prevent it from spreading. I'd never heard of popcorn being the shipping paddig. Ha ha, gave me a laugh, but kinda gross, but also cute. It's a sweet thought. I would be so surprised to open my package, and popcorn pops out! ;o)

That's a GREAT idea!!! I haven't been able to afford a decent microwave since I've moved cross-country, I have a little $30 thingy that's good for heating water and frozen dinners and definitely NOT popcorn. But the birds wouldn't care, right? I threw out some a couple weeks ago and what the greedy dogs didn't get, the birds scarfed up. A bird even smacked Gus (Boston Terrier) when they competed for a morsel. Didn't teach him any humility but he was faster that day than before! I have about eight bags of microwave popcorn left after discovering I can't do that stuff till I can afford a better microwave. I'll just pop it up and use it in packages--I'm sending out an Easter pkg tomorrow, thanks for the suggestion!!! :-)

Actually I just use a hot air popper, (garage sale- $1) that way there's no butter on the stuff I ship! A bag of popcorn is $1.69 at the grocery store, and makes about 2.5cuft of popcorn, enough for 5-6 packages usually. I put the original item in a plastic bag and seal it to keep the popcorn dust off. As far as the Feline Leukemia, we have one very well meaning neighbor who has 20-30 cats (he won't let the police or animal shelter in) and all are infected. (some show no symptoms, they are just carriers) and they let them out doors. So now any outdoor cat is infected. It really is an epidemic in this area. My 2 cats stay in, his cats are on my porch every night, staring in the window at my cats, who stare back. It is a horrible, but controllable, disease. Affected animal just need to be quarantined. Don't worry, we'll have birds soon as spring comes. Then they can have some popcorn.