[alpacassei]

Update on Flurry!

After having a few days to settle, I’ve begun taming. She’s very cage aggressive but we’re working on it slowly. When she notices my hands in her cage, she runs towards them and repeatedly bites hard enough to draw blood. The last time I interacted with her, she didn’t bite as aggressively though. I know it’s not much progress but I’m proud of her!

I’ve briefly had her out of the cage once and she was completely fine with my hands and behaved like any other curious little hamster for the first few minutes. After about 5 minutes, she started to get very stressed and anxious so I put her back in her cage.

Because she’s so easily stressed, I’ll be going very slowly with taming (no more than 5 - 10 minutes each day), she’s already making small amounts of progress in both taming and overall behaviour but even if she’s never fully tame, all that really matters is that she’s safe and happy.