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Post by bouncy on Aug 2, 2015 20:31:05 GMT
I've been lurking in the background, reading all the great advice, as I adopted three rescue degus about a month ago. Apart from being males, and one not being related, I know nothing about them! Spidergoo, Scaredygoo, and Sillygoo (can you tell I can only tell them apart by personality and ear nicks?) started in a rat cage, which I extended so it now stands just over five foot tall, and amuse themselves with various hammocks, ropes, wooden chewing things, food, and a couple of wheels. I spend most evenings sat on my kitchen floor (their room), whilst they run around, nick my pistachios, chew my sudoku book, and give themselves a good dusting. They even have a ball pit! Spidergoo and Sillygoo have recently started squabbling, and it's escalating, so I may well be back on here again reading and asking questions soon
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Hi there!
Aug 2, 2015 21:24:22 GMT
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Post by Bexi87 on Aug 2, 2015 21:24:22 GMT
Welcome to the Forum
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Post by deguconvert on Aug 3, 2015 2:51:22 GMT
Hello and welcome to the forum, Bouncy!! Sounds like you are thoroughly enjoying them! Do you know their ages? Can you tell us the dimensions of your cage, is it tall and thin, does it have full levels?
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Post by moletteuk on Aug 3, 2015 9:48:47 GMT
Hi Bouncy, welcome to the forum
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Post by yasmin on Aug 3, 2015 14:52:36 GMT
Welcome to the forum, bouncy.
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Post by bouncy on Aug 3, 2015 20:52:58 GMT
Thanks for the welcome!
I have no idea about their ages, except that they are fully grown. Two were bought by someone because they had a tank they wanted to put something in (can you believe it?), but then found something else to go in there and dumped them. The other was one abandoned because he won't get on with others, but seems fine with being in with the first two.
Their cage is 1m x 0.5m, with four full levels, plus two wheels, a hanging basket, shelves, rope bridges, hidey tubes and tunnels, and I've made the floors of perspex or ceramic tiles. Sillygoo and Scaredygoo come to talk to me at the bars when I go into my kitchen to take my pills. Spidergoo loves leaping up the outside of the cage to sit on the top, then waits for me to rescue him, and they all love running around the kitchen floor most nights and making a general mess. They love their weekly pistachios, and Spidergoo will try to rummage through my tea towel to see if there are any left in there.
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Post by deguconvert on Aug 4, 2015 5:07:43 GMT
ROFL!! Love hearing about their little quirks and characters.
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Post by bouncy on Aug 4, 2015 23:59:04 GMT
Hahaha one quirk I won't be encouraging is Spidergoo's love of boob diving!
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Post by deguconvert on Aug 5, 2015 1:05:43 GMT
Our first three boys' favorite place on me was smack dab in the middle of my cleavage. They would all squeeze in, or push until only one was there, get all cozy, warm, start to sleep, and then they would pee. I got to the point where I would layer the "area" with kleenex before hand. LOL!
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