Bottle Chewing
And every week Nibble comes up with a new... quirk. He's stopped being scared in his cage, and has adapted nicely to his tissue-box house.
Sunday I gave him his new ComfortWheel - 8.5", replacing a much smaller wheel that he'd grown out of. He loved it! I had to rearrange his cage a bit to get it to fit, but he didn't seem too bothered by that (except that he keeps trying to find the tunnel that used to lead out of the left side of his cage - the hole it came through is now covered by a bubble cap, and he climbed up the side of the cage to poke his nose in, clearly wondering why it doesn't go anywhere any more!)
Monday evening he starts attacking his bottle. He's chewed it a bit in the past, which is why he now has a plastic bottle that hangs outside the cage, with a metal spout inside the cage. But this time he really went nuts - chewing along the length of it, like he was eating corn on the cob. And he went on and on like this all night - around 3:30 in the morning I went downstairs to try to get him to stop, and he'd caused the bottle to leak so much that he was damp along his cheek and on the top of his head, and his cage was so wet that I had to change the bedding.
He's never attacked it like that before, so I can only hope he's not turning into a bottle chewer. It can't be boredom, since he just got a nice big wheel. I guess my only option is to make the water bottle higher, so he can reach to drink but not chew, and hope that this quirk disappears as quickly as his others (and that next week's isn't worse!)
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