Today we're celebrating Bramble's first birthday! I don't know her actual date of birth but she is about 1 now. I chose today because by coincidence her and all my gerbils were born around this time of year, and 1st March is the actual birthday of 2 of my gerbils. The gerbils are all turning 2. So we're having a big rodent birthday party to celebrate all of them.
Bramble got a hay tunnel for her birthday, but her favourite thing was her birthday dinner of gammarus shrimp.
Bramble lives in an Alaska nowadays. It's not a big increase in floor space but the extra height means she has a half shelf for extra enrichment, and I can put her wheel above her house so freeing up space elsewhere.
Here she is having difficulty eating a shrimp cookie:
Bramble with a shrimp cookie - YouTube (I've since adjusted that bendy bridge as I noticed watching the video that it has gaps where she could have got her legs caught).