Katty_Sheldon
03-27-2009, 03:58 AM
Hello
I have a WWR, two months old, no idea if its male of female. He was bought from a pet shop a week and a half ago. He likes his cage, runs in the wheel and chews on his apple branches, pees&poops in his house (will try potty training soon). No tubes for him to hide in, tissue with my scent is being taken as bed material:).
He takes food from my hand, and he lets me pet him when he is eating, but then he turns around and he starts biting (no blood but it is a real bite!). I always let him see my hand before i start petting him. I think it might be the cage rage.
So now he is eating food that i offer him from my hand (in the cage), do you think its time that i try to scoop him in a toilet roll (has it in his cage already a few days to get to know it, but doesnt try to eat it, haha) and put him on a towel between my legs? I plan to do this in a bath tub so that he wouldnt run away. Do you think i should try the tunnel-hand thing with him, does it work also with dwarfs? Use the gloves since he is biting in the cage?
Thank you for the much needed advice, im really trying to be paitent with him and just wondering when is the right time to do the out-of-the-cage-hands thing.
Thanks again!
PS it really helped that i knew in advance that young WWR have sometimes the biting habit, so i didnt get all panicky when it happened first time.
I have a WWR, two months old, no idea if its male of female. He was bought from a pet shop a week and a half ago. He likes his cage, runs in the wheel and chews on his apple branches, pees&poops in his house (will try potty training soon). No tubes for him to hide in, tissue with my scent is being taken as bed material:).
He takes food from my hand, and he lets me pet him when he is eating, but then he turns around and he starts biting (no blood but it is a real bite!). I always let him see my hand before i start petting him. I think it might be the cage rage.
So now he is eating food that i offer him from my hand (in the cage), do you think its time that i try to scoop him in a toilet roll (has it in his cage already a few days to get to know it, but doesnt try to eat it, haha) and put him on a towel between my legs? I plan to do this in a bath tub so that he wouldnt run away. Do you think i should try the tunnel-hand thing with him, does it work also with dwarfs? Use the gloves since he is biting in the cage?
Thank you for the much needed advice, im really trying to be paitent with him and just wondering when is the right time to do the out-of-the-cage-hands thing.
Thanks again!
PS it really helped that i knew in advance that young WWR have sometimes the biting habit, so i didnt get all panicky when it happened first time.