jim
Burrowing Degu
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Post by jim on Aug 8, 2008 13:31:54 GMT
Well, it's approaching nine months now and I still haven't successfully merged Chili in with the other two. I've done almost everything in the book ... I think though I shall try a few more times and then leave it at that, if it doesn't work out. A real shame though as I hate seeing Chili on his own in an ((admittedly)) inferior tank.  Next up, I shall split Taylor&Hawkins cage into two with wire mesh and place Chili in one half. It's the same old story otherwise; Hawkins is the dominant one and spars with Chili when they meet. Taylor will take either of the two however today I tried just Taylor& Chili together ... a small clash  Bah humbug! Why can't I just place the same frequency crystals into all three like a R/C car!  |
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Post by deguconvert on Aug 8, 2008 15:30:27 GMT
LOL!! If you ever figure out how to do that for your goos, let me know. I would like to try it on my kids!!
Small clashes are normal, even between goos that are bonded. Our degus box, and swear, and occassionally chase each other in a hot and furious flurry around the cage, but then they settle down and all is well again. You may need to allow them a little more time together to settle the positions of authority. You need to watch them, yes, to make sure they don't start to draw blood, but you need to let them have a little bit of who's boss fighting too.
Does that make any sense at all?
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Post by buzz on Aug 8, 2008 20:24:26 GMT
Shame its not worked out for you. Fingers crossed your luck changes for you.
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jim
Burrowing Degu
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Post by jim on Aug 14, 2008 10:23:06 GMT
LOL!! If you ever figure out how to do that for your goos, let me know. I would like to try it on my kids!! Small clashes are normal, even between goos that are bonded. Our degus box, and swear, and occassionally chase each other in a hot and furious flurry around the cage, but then they settle down and all is well again. You may need to allow them a little more time together to settle the positions of authority. You need to watch them, yes, to make sure they don't start to draw blood, but you need to let them have a little bit of who's boss fighting too. Does that make any sense at all? Of course! I realise that degu's spar for authority and the such quite sometime ago. But I'm pretty unwilling to let them push the bar that little bit further, maybe I should...  |
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Post by buzz on Aug 14, 2008 13:33:32 GMT
If you seen some of the fights my degus have you'd think it was a full on war. If I try to stop them it just drags out the fight, they have to get it over and out. Although there was one strange fight where Splinter/Buzz really really did something to annoy the other and blood was drawn but since blood was drawn pretty much by an upper cut its not the same thing as biting.
Basically I'd say put on some gloves (if you don't already) and see how far it goes. If biting or rolling begins then end it and personally I'd be done with it because you'd then know that the problem wasn't you not letting them sort out their dominance but a genuine dislike. And its not like you've only been trying for weeks, nine months shows amazing patience.
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Post by deguconvert on Aug 14, 2008 19:49:05 GMT
I agree!! You have amazing patience!! I also agree with Buzz, give them that chance to show you if it is all out war and hatred, or just trying to sort out dominance. That will tell you if you keep trying or count it as a closed deal.
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jim
Burrowing Degu
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Post by jim on Sept 21, 2008 10:22:55 GMT
So, I'm going for one last attempt in the next week. But this time I'm going to divide Taylor& Hawkins' large ((John Hopewell)) cage into two with a mesh divide. I've never done this before so...we'll have to see how it goes.
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