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Post by candehllama on Nov 28, 2010 12:33:42 GMT
Why would you ever think of getting rid of them? o:
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Post by smux on Nov 28, 2010 17:48:50 GMT
If you mean the scents, it's because he needs to move on before he can share the cage with someone new, scents of his old cagemate would affect the hierarchy and how they interact with each other at the very least. It's scents of a lost cagemate or a new cagemate, they don't go together well unless I want them to fight.
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Post by smux on Dec 7, 2010 11:29:05 GMT
Update: Pretty sure the little girl is pregnant as one of the girls is a little bit larger than the other and almost identical to Theresa now (who is looking a little bit fat herself, but I'm confident it's not pregnant fat). The babies are doing well, all big boys now (and I am pretty sure they're all boys, unlike the boy with girl-shaped bits) and all enjoying their treats. One or more of these boys will be sharing with Dante and I will be remodelling his cage a little to make it more degu-friendly (for instance, the wheel isn't safe for degus with full tails, but was fine for Dante and Elsevier) when the time comes to introduce them. Dante has already had little introductions with the babies (but not in his cage) and they seem to like each other although they soon get bored of each other :-)
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Post by nickymills30 on Dec 7, 2010 12:54:52 GMT
oh dear, you;ll be having more babies then. nice to hear the rest are doing fine, can we have some pics please? xx
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Post by Bexi87 on Dec 7, 2010 20:45:06 GMT
Oh no, will they ever stop?!
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Post by smux on Dec 7, 2010 21:26:28 GMT
I will post some pics of the new boys sometime soon...I haven't taken many pictures this time because there hasn't really been anything new to take pictures of...maybe when I eventually get them a wheel or something :-)
And this really should be the last time...Gizmo is under control (or at least in a cage with another boy) so he won't be impregnating anyone any time soon. He only gets supervised time with the girls and I am able to reach every part of the cage if he decides he's feeling horny and I am not squeamish about putting my hand between him and the poor victim to stop him doing anything :-)
This should be the last of the babies, at least until one of the girls is old enough (in my opinion anyway) for some fun times with Dante (the girlies aren't to be impregnated, I spoke with their previous owner and she didn't want them to be bred with either Dante or Elsevier...so I stick with her wishes) and that's probably going to be many months away as I would like them to be at least a year old before that happens and I *should* wait until a year after the girls' babies are born so I make sure she gets a year's break between pregnancies. I might not even let them get pregnant, I really don't know yet, I might have to make sure there's someone ready to take on the babies before I do.
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