agoraphobic? lol

[gooey]

ok, i hear some stories of the degus escaping and then having to be caught etc. so i am wondering if mine are just exceptionally good or if i am just lucky because we leave the doors open on the cage when we are home and in the area where the cage is and our guys have no interest in exploring outside the cage. they will come jump on us if we come near the open doors, but otherwise the most they have ever done is climb up on top of the cage and then run back down and back inside...... ???so are they good? or are we just pushing our luck?

[jason]

We have two degus, When we go to open the cage one is trying to get through it before its even open yet the other one will not venture out until no one's around or watching him. They know when its time to go back in (if they have'nt already gone back in on their own) as we have a old (small) piece of rolled up carpet which they run into without any chasing around etc as they know its treat time. It took a while to learn them that it was safe to venture inside it but once they sussed they got a treat for going inside it no problem.

[critterrx]

Theodore is always trying to break out of the cardboard playpen. He's chewed holes in it twice and gotten out (not for long, and he was still confined to just the one room). Even when the hole was pretty big, Simon didn't go out, though. I think that mostly because he can't see a thing (Simon has cataracts in both eyes, Theodore only has them in one eye).

[diet otaku]

for a lot of degus the cage is more like a safehouse than a prison - they feel protected in there. when i used to take my degus' cage in to the bathroom and let them run around, it would take them a good couple of minutes to venture out of the cage, and even then they would often run back into the cage periodically, if they were trying to hide from another degu trying to start a fight or if they were just bored of walking around the bathroom floor.