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Old 07-07-2016, 12:16 AM  
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Thanks everyone

Serendipity I really must get a vid of one of them running full pelt one of these days, that's not fast at all lol!
She was funny when she first found the wheel she really wasn't sure what to do & was going so slowly the wheel hardly moved, she soon got the hang of things though bless her!

She wasn't confident at all, I was a little way off from the cage with the camera zoomed in when I took that first video & photo, she's much more like Zephyr was when she first came home than either Whisp or Zeki, very very timid & shy, scared of hands but still curious & quite the intrepid explorer once that curiosity won out.
She had a good look round at everything, had a nice time in her sand bath & wheel then began to dig herself in. Because she was so nervous I decided to spend quite a lot of time around the cage talking to her & not leave her completely alone as I had the feeling she would just disappear underground & start to go a bit feral left to her own devices & she soon began to come out of her shell, coming to the front of the cage to see who or what I was!
I tried offering her treats a couple of times but she was still much too nervous to come to my hand so I put a sunflower seed down for her & without moving my hand away to much she came straight back & took it, after we'd done that a couple of times she went to sit in her wheel to eat them, began to have a little run & kept stopping to look around as though she couldn't understand why the shells were raining down on her
I had to intervene a bit anyway as her bottle & water bowl were in danger of either disappearing under the substrate or just getting tipped right over! I've only seen her give the bottle a couple of brief licks, she seems to think it's there to climb on mostly but finally saw her have a good drink from the bowl this morning, funny how they take to those Rodipet bowls, when I was worried about Mickle not drinking enough & tried her with a bowl whatever I used she wouldn't touch but as soon as she had the Rodipet bowl she was happy to drink from it!

She was very determined to dig under her wheel & make a tunnel along the length of the back of the cage, everything along there was sinking lower & lower as she kicked all the substrate back toward the wheel half burying it! I rescued the wheel once but within about 10 minutes it was half buried once again

I was a little apprehensive going to bed leaving her to it & wondering what I might find this morning…
Well it looked like the wheel had been hit by a mini substrate tsunami! t was at a really silly angle, half buried & almost full!
I had to take the wheel out, just about everything along the back out & put a new fence around the wheel, it was a bit of a tight squeeze with the new fence so the nice ceramic home house had to go, I don't think she even wants a house lol! She still has the small wooden one & the shelf to sleep under if she wants to.
She's one very determined little lady though, now I've finally managed to prevent her from digging under there she's doing her best to chew her way in
There's only enough substrate under the wheel to hold the little fence up anyway so I'm trying to leave her to figure it out for herself & dig somewhere else, fingers crossed she'll get the idea sooner or later…….
She did have a nice set up but now it looks as though everything has been randomly thrown in with a bit of substrate on top! I don't think she'll ever be a "nice" set up kind of girl, more a happy chaos kind

Her confidence has come on so much I'm amazed at her After all the disruption this morning I thought I ought to offer her a little reward for putting up with me & with only a moments hesitation she took a seed from my fingers, we've done it a few times now so she's really getting quite brave, almost unrecognisable compared to the frozen little ball hidden in a tube less than a day ago.
Each time I go to the cage & ask "What are you up to now?!" she comes to the front & looks up at me with such a cute & innocent little face "Who me?"

I have to say I feel quite exhausted already but I haven't laughed so much in ages!


ETA it's suddenly gone very quiet, I was beginning to wonder if she's ever stop to sleep lol! but a little fitch mountain has appeared at the door of her little wooden house so, dare I even think it.... maybe she's seen sense at last!

She wasn't still enough for photos this morning but here she is happy amongst her chaos having a quick nibble on a whimzee.
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