Introducing Alfie!

[AlfredHam]

He eventually decided to get out at 3!
He's never peed in his wheel before, so that was quite unusual for him, although last night he was pooing and running so I wonder if he's having too much fun to get out and go to the toilet! I gave it a decent rinse rather than a full scrub, I thought it still smelt pretty bad but didn't want to get into that cycle! It's so strange that he's started peeing in his house though, he always uses the front right corner, even in his old cage!

[Golden_Syrian_Hammmies]

Awk that is a bit annoying. Yeah as serendipity says it a territorial thing, and the more we clean they more they pee Fudge started doing it recently. In his wood house which wasn't plastikoted, think he just got lazy tbh instead of getting out to use his sand tray. So I put him in the grass nest which is actually bigger anyway and moved the sand tray nearer to the nest. Thankfully he isn't one for peeing In the wheel. He's a cute little man

[Pebbles82]

Charlie's had the odd moment where he's pee'd in his wheel or nest as well. When you say he's peed in his house, is it in his nest or a bit away from his nest? Anyway maybe he'll stop now. He is so adorable

[AlfredHam]

It's away from the nest, but on top of his hoard. I think its laziness to be honest, he's never had a house before because the shelves were always low enough for him to just nest under there so the shelf was like a huge house and he'd go to the corner for a wee, now he's got an enclosed house I think he can't be bothered to leave it and wee in the daytime. He's still using the corner at night but maybe I need to get him a bigger house so he can get into the corner all the time?
He is adorable, glad it's not just me being biased

[Thin Lizzy]

Oh my that pic of him is just so cute! His fluffy little face Aww!

[AlfredHam]

Alfie is very curious today, the camera was so interesting he climbed all the way up my leg in the bath today for a nosey

[Pebbles82]

Lol! They do like investigating cameras! It sounds like he is hoarding in his wee corner. When you have to replace the wee'd on hoard you could try putting the new food a bit nearer his nest away from the wee corner and he might start getting the message. Or if you put a bendy bridge over his house entrance he might start putting his hoard in there instead. I found Charlie used to spread out in his house and never seemed to have enough room for hoards. He did start hoarding in his bendy bridge tunnel once, and then had to climb over it to get out lol.

[AlfredHam]

I haven't checked his house again yet, but yesterday he came out a few times in the day to wee in his usual place so I'm hoping it may have been a one off (fingers crossed). I think I might have to get him a bigger house if he keeps doing it, he has moved his hoard from before he had a house though, he used to sleep on his hoard but now it is more to the side and spills into the corner!
I'm not going anywhere for the next two weeks and my tiny town only has pets at home and an independent fairly rubbish (and expensive!) pet shop, so I'll have a little look in the couple of pet shops in my university town when I go to hand in my dissertation!
I can't find anything that I'm that keen on online so I might just have to keep cleaning out the smelly hoard and replacing it with the new one, luckily I kept his old food just in case and I can keep using that to replace it until I've sorted the new house out

[Pebbles82]

Charlie's hoard used to spill over into his wee corner as well. You could make a shoebox house cut a hole out for a door. Or have you seen the Rodipet houses? Some of them aren't too expensive, but the postage bumps up the cost as it adds another £7. They have rooms so they tend to nest in the one furthest from the door and use the other room for a toilet. The three room ones mean they have a room for their hoard as well.

[AlfredHam]

I've checked his house and no wee! Obviously he was just having a lazy day