[Stubbo]

So, come Monday, Hoover will have been in his enclosure for 2 weeks.

We've pretty much left him too it aside feeding from our hands through the bars and once from our hands inside the cage too.

A development yesterday/today...don't know if to be bothered or not...he's clearly excavated under the shelf the wheel sits on, and when he disappeared for the day today, instead of seeing him head back into the Rodipet Maze House, we saw him head down a hole that led under that shelf, and then he filled the hole in behind him...he'd also clearly been ferreting food down there too.

Does this suggest he's moved house and decided to setup underground, or just created an alternate food stash? We've been trying not to look in the Rodipet House to avoid spooking him early on, but if he has setup a burrow down there to live in, and starts pottying down there, it will be next to impossible to clean without destroying it each time.

I think tomorrow we'll try and get him out and while he's out the cage we'll have a look in the Rodipet house for signs of life/toileting (fingers crossed). There's not been any pungent odours yet...as suggested we have done not a lot except keep food and water topped up, and hand feed when we can.

Re the wheel that we had questions about...he's started using it and seems fine doing so. It's totally silent, spins well and easily, and he runs straight in it when doing so.

As always would be delighted with any feedback on what we're doing right and wrong and any thoughts from those more experienced.

He seems generally happy in his home...no signs of bar chewing...he clearly loved digging and burrowing, and the enclosure is affording him that chance for sure.