Funny story. Long, but funny

[laurieb]

:)Lilly and Milly have been taking very good care of Lilly's 8 pups.
In fact, I think Milly is in with them more than their mom! Maybe because she's also expecting, she feels she needs the practice!

OK, now for the funny part.
First, let me describe the cage set-up that we have. Since we found out we were going to have pups, we moved the 3 degus to all 1 story, until pups are ready for multi levels. We have 2 VERY large aquariums connected together at the top with a tube through the covers. They can go from one aquarium to the other through the tube. This is taking up my ENTIRE dining room table!
My husband made a divider for in the tube, so that Willy would have 1 side to himself until he could be with his new family. Willy sat in his half of that tube and chirped for 2 days. He wanted to go to the other side so bad!

Well, this morning was the big day. Willy can be with his family! We took out the divider and the 2 girls went into Willy's side, because he has the wheel! Willy just followed them around. He was very happy. ;D
Then Lilly went over to her side to feed the pups, so Willy followed her over.
Willy peeked in the jar, his ears went back and he ran as fast as he could back in the tube! There was bedding flying straight up in the air! It was so funny! I don't think he was ready for pups, let alone 8 of them!
I watched for a while, to make sure he was going to be OK with them and he was. He went back over, I guess once the shock had passed, and went in the jar with Lilly and the pups.
All seems good now!

Sorry this is so long, but for you to picture this, I needed to get fairly descriptive.

Laurie

[Sunshinemeg]

I can imagine a lot of new fathers want to react that way!!

Glad the re-introduction went so smoothly, good to see they are all getting along well. when are you expecting the pups from milly?

[laurieb]

We are HOPING she will give us a couple more weeks. She doesn't seem as big as Lilly did, so maybe the litter will be smaller. Both are unplanned pregnancies, so we don't know exactly when to expect them. I'll have to keep a close eye on her now, since Willy is in with them again.

[ra]

Wow, sounds like things are going smoothly there. (at least after Willie got over the initial shock)

[sarah]

That's so funny, Buddy would do the same thing! He didn't seem to be helping Blossom much with the babiesat first, but sometimes when she would be out of the nest he would go in, the babies would start chirping and he would turn right around and run back out! After a few days he was better about helping, he would take a turn inside with the babies and was always gathering new nest material. He had so much jammed in there, I was worried that the babies would get squished!