Thank you everyone for your great encouragement and advice, the Alaska is having supply issues from zooplus so while we wait I have made up a tub with deep substrate (auboise) and some of her new things, when she wakes up this evening I’ll see if she fancies coming out and going in it, I’ll move some things across from her existing cage so her smells are in there and see how we get on. If she seems happy I can supervise her in there And put her back in her little cage for my bedtime, or sooner if she looks like she’s ready for hers. The difficulty comes with getting her back into her little cage, as it’s only got a top hole which is small I have to scoop her up with my hands and pop her in there, No amount of encouraging words will make her climb from sitting on the top into the cage! An advantage will be that when her new cage arrives I can move the substrate across from the tub and it will already smell of her
I will let you know how it goes