hazlenut crazy

[moletteuk]

My girly goos were going a bit chompy crazy tonight, so I thought I'd try them with a hazlenut. They went nuts over them (pun intended ;-))

I thought they would get bored and not be that bothered, so I put two in between three of them, after immediate whining I quickly scuttled off to get a third so they could have one each - that was me told!

They were hilarious hopping round the cage, trying to find the perfect spot to tackle the nut, changing their minds every ten seconds. After a while, one was looking very determined, the second was looking a bit less determined, still moving about with it, and the third had given up and buried hers. She then went to muscle in on the determined one, so I had my hands full after that, trying to allow the determined one to tackle and eat hers in peace. Less determined goo gave up too after a while, she kept dropping it on her travels and going frantic looking for it, when it was right under her nose. I had to point it out to her a couple of times, I'm sure she thought I'd nicked it! I don't know if she deliberately left it in the sand box in the end or lost it!

I spent the next twenty minutes trying to distract the goos that gave up from the one doing the hard work. She whined like crazy when they went begging and interfering, and my human sense of fair play didn't like to see the quitters gain from the hard work of the one. I certainly had my work cut out with this policy, I had to open up one of the nuts and share it between the quitters to lure them away. Tried to get in a bit of hand training while I had a 'super treat' in my hand.

Anyway, it certainly provided a good bit of excitement for everyone, me included I'm glad they can't have them often - I couldn't cope!

BTW, they do have names, Florence, Alice & Molly, I just can't tell them apart (still)!

[Jaiye]

Sounds like it was a fun evening though! ^____^ Lovely little goos =)

[nickymills30]

i'm def going to get some hazelnuts, that sounds like you all had loads of fun lol

[Kins]

Brilliant story, what cheeky goos!

That's what my Dave and Jim were like when I gave them a walnut at Christmas. Dave buried his almost straight away, but Jim was more intent on cracking it and getting to the gold. Dave was then chasing Jim around the cage trying to pinch Jim's off him so he could have both to himself, there was a lot of squealing. I ended up having to dig around in the cage to find the buried one and then took the other one away to stop them fighting. I cracked one open and gave them some each.

Stan & Nige were much better behaved with their walnuts and actually managed to open both of them, clever gooeys!

they are a cheap treat too, I paid 20p for 4 big walnuts as you can buy them lose in some supermarkets!

[moletteuk]

I've been feeling bad today, because I'm sure the two that gave up have been looking for their nuts today.....and I took them away. Oh well, I don't feel bad enough to give them back, I don't want all hell breaking loose if they have another go at them unsupervised!

It's tough to judge how smart they are sometimes, one goo seemed to just carelessly leave hers in the box that the sandbath goes in, but today I've seen her digging at the cardboard as though she was looking for her nut. They do muck about in there, but I don't think I've seen such concerted effort in there before, so maybe she knew exactly where she left it.

[Jaiye]

Clever little goos =)