Aggressive degus? Try your mother.

[diggory]

Hey guys, been a while since ive posted!

This isnt so much a question, just an interesting observation ive made with my boys.

My 2 lads are aggressive little buggers. They dont bite or fight to injure, but they do love a good yell at any opportunity and will have big old sumo matches when its treat time.

Whenever I put anything near the bars of their cage, including myself, they will often resort to their natural reaction of "yell at it".

However ive discovered a new reaction of being calmed with a new object. That object is my phone... with my mother on the other end of it. They initially yell at the phone, like they do with anything else, but when they hear my mothers voice talking to them, they almost immediate calm down and just stare at the phone as if in a daze.

They still chirp and let out the occasional yell as if they are talking back, but its quite funny to see 2 normally insane degus mesmerized by this voice.

Just thought id share this with you, hope it brightens your day a little.

[yasmin]

That's really interesting. Could it be their curiosity or maybe your mom's voice through the cellphone sounds like comforting degu sounds, like a mother soothing her babies?

This has brightened my day. Thanks.

[deguconvert]

ROTFL!! THAT is most humorous and intriguing!! How did you come to discover it??

[malteser60]

That is the funniest thing I've heard in a long while! How does your mum feel about this?

[Inge]

Maybe you could post a soundrecording of your mom's voice ? Might be a solution for those testosteron-moments my degu-boys tend to have ;D