Post by shigatsu on Apr 2, 2005 17:08:29 GMT
In our cage we have a hay ball that attaches to the side of the cage. Sometimes Taisuke and Mario like to climb up on the side of it to chew on higher bars or the bar that goes across to attach the wheel. Lately though we have been having an annoying and somewhat worrisome problem between the two of them when it comes to one of them being up in that corner - Most likely Taisuke will be up there and they sometimes like to fight over corners to chew on (crazy guys! 
) Mario (we believe it's usually him as Taisuke is not immediately willing to defend himself and will take a light "beating" before fighting back) comes over and will chew on the bars below him. Lately though he's been going over and instead of the bars he's been grabbing Taisuke's tail, bitting and pulling. Taisuke will take it and squeek and whine. Sometimes Mario listens when we tell him to stop it, but not always and will sometimes just go back and do it again. We try to tell Taisuke to defend himself and get out of the way but he just doesn't want to we guess. Mario doesn't listen to his whines and continues to do it. He hasn't done any damage to his tail yet, but are concerned that he may and are tired of having to try to get them to stop. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may help? Thank you so much! ^_^
) Mario (we believe it's usually him as Taisuke is not immediately willing to defend himself and will take a light "beating" before fighting back) comes over and will chew on the bars below him. Lately though he's been going over and instead of the bars he's been grabbing Taisuke's tail, bitting and pulling. Taisuke will take it and squeek and whine. Sometimes Mario listens when we tell him to stop it, but not always and will sometimes just go back and do it again. We try to tell Taisuke to defend himself and get out of the way but he just doesn't want to we guess. Mario doesn't listen to his whines and continues to do it. He hasn't done any damage to his tail yet, but are concerned that he may and are tired of having to try to get them to stop. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may help? Thank you so much! ^_^
They usually get bored of their toys quickly, but we finally got them a wheel (the wheel I refered to in my previous message was the hay ball, I don't know why I kept calling it a wheel..) . It doesn't fit very well (hopefully we'll be able to get their new bigger cage soon), but they love it, although they're slowly starting to like me again as I think I bugged them too much when I was trying to get them to understand what the wheel is for. It's plastic and I wanted to make sure they didn't think it was one big chew toy!