Post by deguconvert on Jan 28, 2012 7:45:22 GMT
Our little munchkins scared the DAYLIGHTS out of us tonight. We had a child's birthday party to attend this afternoon and evening, so got home again around 8:30 pm. First thing, my daughter went in to the room where the degus are to visit with the pups. Out she came rushing with the shocking and deeply distressing news that four of the six pups were missing. We went into high gear, looking for pups outside the cage. Right away we found one, trembling with fear round the back of the cage. It didn't take long to retrieve him and return him to the cage. About a minute, certainly not longer, after we had put him back in, my daughter gasped and said, "MOM!! There's only two in the cage again!! Where did the one one go that we just found??!!" Couldn't find him ANYWHERE. So the search, with meticulous caution and care, for fear that a pup would be hiding behind or beneath something and accidentally be stepped on or crushed began. An hour later, we still hadn't found anyone. The search continued, and then after another 30 minutes, my daughter, while walking by, thought she saw movement on the most upper shelf. "Did I just see a pup up there?" she muttered to herself. Opening up the door, she moved aside some toys and shavings and what should she see, but four little pups, looking at her with huge innocent eyes. There they had been, INSIDE the cage, AT THE TOP, for the whole 90 minutes of frantic, tear ridden searching . . . probably SNIGGERING all the while.
It is quite a little haul, or so we believed, for these tiny little ones to get up five feet, from bottom level to highest . . . but scale it they did. You can be SURE we will be WATCHING to see if we can catch them in the act from now on. "Little Gits!!" To use an appropriately descriptive phrase, thank you, Bex!! I was downright thankful to tuck my heart back into my chest after that. LOL!!!
OH . . . we did get tape of the pups talking, but my daughter accidentally deleted it when she thought she was downloading it to the computer. We have to do it over again. Will get on that this weekend!
It is quite a little haul, or so we believed, for these tiny little ones to get up five feet, from bottom level to highest . . . but scale it they did. You can be SURE we will be WATCHING to see if we can catch them in the act from now on. "Little Gits!!" To use an appropriately descriptive phrase, thank you, Bex!! I was downright thankful to tuck my heart back into my chest after that. LOL!!!
OH . . . we did get tape of the pups talking, but my daughter accidentally deleted it when she thought she was downloading it to the computer. We have to do it over again. Will get on that this weekend!