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Post by Cherpi on Jan 5, 2011 22:44:37 GMT
Hey, my degus are kind of leaving me puzzled?
So I've had them for... 3 week 4 days (really doesn't feel like it) and until the last few days they slept in their wooden box... but now they're just sleeping on the wooden ledge near the door. at first I thought they were just relaxing but they do it all the time? I swapped their bed for another one just before they started doing it but changed it back due to them not being interested?
Could it be because they're too warm in the bed? They seem fine otherwise.. any ideas?
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Post by arumanii on Jan 5, 2011 22:52:08 GMT
Yep. Quite possibly they're too warm or its too soft or ticklish or they're just feeling more comfortable in their environment now so are happy lazing about anywhere or... they're just being goos! lol. Could be any number of reasons with goos. Mine spent an entire day switching nests round (two nests, one set of new babies, two goos each convinced their chosen nest was the better = hours of entertainment watching them move the same bits of bedding back and forth!)
At the moment, as the heating is on again, they're sleeping in a goopile out in the open on a boring wooden ledge. In the evenings they'll usually go into the den area where there is a huge nest built out of socks, soft papers, hay and the occasional stolen item. Then there is the often popular choice of lying in the den atop a warm snugglesafe out in the open.
They just live to puzzle us!
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Post by Cherpi on Jan 5, 2011 23:14:03 GMT
I have noticed in the mornings they waddle out of their nest box so perhaps they sit on the ledge while it's hot and then when the temp goes down at around 1am they go into the nest to stay warm.
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boots
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Post by boots on Jan 5, 2011 23:25:41 GMT
My four 9 month old boys have decided for the last two nights to all squeeze into a small, hollowed out coconut! I have no idea how they all fit in there! All you can see is a bum sticking out one hole, a nose out of another and a mystery bulge of brown hair is sticking out the last hole!
They are odd creatures with very strange sleeping habits!
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Post by smux on Jan 5, 2011 23:31:11 GMT
Gizmo and the baby are sleeping out in the open but only because they have no other choice. I gave them the choice and a nice house, they demolished it...I gave them another, they demolished it too, so they're stuck without a house. I got two snugglesafes so Dante could have one and they could have the other one, so they shouldn't be too cold at night. They also have a hammock I put in today and they haven't been off it much since I put it in.
The flatmate also filled a big area of Dante's cage with thick hay (bedding type) and he now sleeps in there rather than his house...he even gets his snugglesafe put in there...it's not exactly out in the open but it's open plan as Dante gets to dig about and get it how he wants :-)
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Post by listracian on Jan 6, 2011 12:25:48 GMT
My boys never sleep in their bed. They all sleep in a large pile on the rope and generally use their bed as a toilet. Then again my boys have always been a bit weird. They haven't slept in a bed since they were babies!
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Post by w8152 on Jan 6, 2011 13:30:42 GMT
From my experience they tend to sleep in the open so they can be in on whats going on around them (dont wanna miss anything) and if nothing is going on they goto bed (ie nobody in) but they soon come out when people arrive
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Post by Bexi87 on Jan 6, 2011 21:04:18 GMT
Mine sleep in their bed, although they don't go in until midnight at least and then get up about half an hour after me!
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Post by nickymills30 on Jan 7, 2011 7:48:04 GMT
mine sleep all over the place! never in their next box, they use that to hide food lol, but i know when its a bit warm cause they lie right in the middle of the cage spread eagle!
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Post by blossombrooks on Jan 7, 2011 21:54:12 GMT
My two sleep in a natural fibre tube thingy stuffed with toilet roll. When I go in in the mornings all I see are two little noses and two fluffy tails out of each end! They used the proper nest box as a 'treasure chest' before chewing an almighty hole in it. Daisy gets up first and goes back to tuck pepper in! It's pretty adorable. :-)
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Post by danandamy on Jan 7, 2011 22:12:58 GMT
mine have an old shoe box now but they had a fibre tube thingy they played with not slept in but they just slept on pile of hay or on the floor i was worried about them being cold so put a shoe box in there with hay in there. i also had a problem with the goos not like my misses (cant blame em) lol so i put 1 of me misses top in there and they dragged it in there box obviasly my boys like pink vest tops lol
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Post by Cherpi on Jan 7, 2011 22:31:10 GMT
I really hate the nest box anyway, it's the crappy Pets at home one, I made them a bed that was ace, it was quite flat and really warm, but they ignored it tbh.
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Post by deguconvert on Jan 8, 2011 1:36:33 GMT
Our boys sleep anywhere they want . . . which means we are seldom absolutely sure where they are, lol. So we have to look around and track them down.
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Post by nickymills30 on Jan 8, 2011 9:21:00 GMT
mind can be like that, bet you've had a few heart attacks not being able to locate them? i know i have lol xx
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Post by smux on Jan 8, 2011 12:13:38 GMT
Oh, and I should have mentioned...Dante sleeps on the modem (or at least lies down on it) in the daytime...it's what he's been using as an alternative to a snugglesafe.
And he's not a big wire chewer, or he wouldn't have access to the modem or anything else :-P
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Post by whizzer27 on Jan 13, 2011 18:33:17 GMT
mind can be like that, bet you've had a few heart attacks not being able to locate them? i know i have lol xx Yes Nicky same here, a few times! ;D xx |
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