aalmondmilk
08-26-2021, 06:37 AM
Hello everyone,
I have had my female syrian (Stella) since the beginning of July. She is currently in a 60in x 20in. It’s a half bin and half mesh (on the top half)—the bin part is filled with bedding (about 12-14in).
It seems that no matter what I do she just wants to escape. She ignores her toys and doesn’t run as much on her wheel anymore. I’ve put cardboard up around the mesh areas of the cage so she cannot climb and throw herself off the top anymore (she doesn’t chew on the mesh, just climbs).
She comes out 9:45-11:30pm usually and goes back to her burrow by 5-6:00am. I work a laborious job and always fall asleep before she’s up even if I try to stay up. Since she burrows I do not want to take everything out and destroy her burrow to have her wake up earlier (or even to spot clean /: )
I’ve disconnected the mesh upper half before and used that as a playpen or the bathtub but she wants to escape either within minutes of being in there. Even when she gets free in my room she tries to escape the room. I use a ball sometimes but she will run the perimeter of the room looking for an escape or just sit by the door because she knows that’s how to get out of the room.
Stella is tame, she comes to my hand when i tap on things like 40% of the time and doesn’t bite (unless i had to snatch her up when she’s escaped her cage in the past but it’s secure now)
………………My Ham Care…………………
I scatter feel Stella a mix of higgins sunburst and kaytee forti pro pellets. I have been giving her dried veggie mix and a flower based forage mix sprinkled around the cage. I have also been giving her lettuce, half a baby carrot, or a lil cheese. She’s got a water bottle attached to the side of the cage.
Her toys/substrates include:
kaytee clean and cozy (3/4 of bin)
aspen
care fresh (small corner)
meadow mix hay
white play sand
coco fibre
reptile moss
cork logs
12” niteangel wheel
multichamber hide
multiple huts/hides
one of those snaking logs
cardboard bridge
2 whimzees (she got halfway through the first one and decided she doesn’t like them anymore)
apple wood & other wood chews
sprays (4 kinds)
lava stone with a very thin layer of pb on it
forage mat
I just got some new chews / toys from the pet store (shakers, willow balls, dif flavor chews) and I made some stuffers with toilet paper tubes. I dipped some of the wood chews in olive oil and hung them from the cage ceiling as well.
……………………..
all the new toys I put in her enclosure she didn’t touch last night except for minimal nibbles on the hanging chews.
I just want to give up, I’m exhausted with her. I do not have room for a larger enclosure at the moment and I have already upgraded her bins twice.
I have had my female syrian (Stella) since the beginning of July. She is currently in a 60in x 20in. It’s a half bin and half mesh (on the top half)—the bin part is filled with bedding (about 12-14in).
It seems that no matter what I do she just wants to escape. She ignores her toys and doesn’t run as much on her wheel anymore. I’ve put cardboard up around the mesh areas of the cage so she cannot climb and throw herself off the top anymore (she doesn’t chew on the mesh, just climbs).
She comes out 9:45-11:30pm usually and goes back to her burrow by 5-6:00am. I work a laborious job and always fall asleep before she’s up even if I try to stay up. Since she burrows I do not want to take everything out and destroy her burrow to have her wake up earlier (or even to spot clean /: )
I’ve disconnected the mesh upper half before and used that as a playpen or the bathtub but she wants to escape either within minutes of being in there. Even when she gets free in my room she tries to escape the room. I use a ball sometimes but she will run the perimeter of the room looking for an escape or just sit by the door because she knows that’s how to get out of the room.
Stella is tame, she comes to my hand when i tap on things like 40% of the time and doesn’t bite (unless i had to snatch her up when she’s escaped her cage in the past but it’s secure now)
………………My Ham Care…………………
I scatter feel Stella a mix of higgins sunburst and kaytee forti pro pellets. I have been giving her dried veggie mix and a flower based forage mix sprinkled around the cage. I have also been giving her lettuce, half a baby carrot, or a lil cheese. She’s got a water bottle attached to the side of the cage.
Her toys/substrates include:
kaytee clean and cozy (3/4 of bin)
aspen
care fresh (small corner)
meadow mix hay
white play sand
coco fibre
reptile moss
cork logs
12” niteangel wheel
multichamber hide
multiple huts/hides
one of those snaking logs
cardboard bridge
2 whimzees (she got halfway through the first one and decided she doesn’t like them anymore)
apple wood & other wood chews
sprays (4 kinds)
lava stone with a very thin layer of pb on it
forage mat
I just got some new chews / toys from the pet store (shakers, willow balls, dif flavor chews) and I made some stuffers with toilet paper tubes. I dipped some of the wood chews in olive oil and hung them from the cage ceiling as well.
……………………..
all the new toys I put in her enclosure she didn’t touch last night except for minimal nibbles on the hanging chews.
I just want to give up, I’m exhausted with her. I do not have room for a larger enclosure at the moment and I have already upgraded her bins twice.