Degu biting

[degusrule123]

Why is my degu biting me? I’ve had him and his brother for half a year and he keeps biting me. I’m not sure why, because his brother has never bitten me.
He doesn’t bite that often but when he does it hurts a lot and bleeds for up to 5 minutes. It usually happen when I just put my hand near him (in a non threatening way) or pick him up. But the weird thing is small children and other people have handled him yet he’s only ever bitten me. If anyone could give me advice that would be great!

[deguconvert]

Has he been biting you for the whole time?

[moletteuk]

Can you give us some more context? How hard a bite is it?

My initial thoughts are he is trying to tell you not to do whatever you did before he bit you, like a communication of discontent rather than an expression of aggression. Could also be to do with territory.