Not using the wheel

[stevelup]

Hi folks, I've got four Degus - had them three weeks or so now.

In their enclosure, there has been (from day one) a steel wheel like the ones for sale on this forum.

They have not used it once. I've tried placing them in it and incentivising them with food.

They didn't have a wheel in the cage they lived in previously - I wonder if they just don't understand what it's for.

Any suggestions?

[Kins]

When I first got both my pairs of goos they didn't know/understand what the wheel was for. We had to entice them into it with oats and then actually spin it, very gently of course, so that they got the idea.

They soon picked it up and now I can't get them off them!