Thanks Frida & Maz!
I have some good news. I had a bit of a panic last night about not seeing cowboy. He is reclusive, but I normally will at least hear him snacking away in his tunnel.
Now I live with my partner, I get even more worried when he hasn’t seen him. It’s like I can understand that I’ll always get worried, I’ve ran a rescue, am more aware of how short their lives are and been the unfortunate person to discover them once they’ve passed, but when he gets worried?? Then it feels a lot less like an overbearing mother.
We decided that whilst we can’t setup the cameras inside their enclosures in the middle of the night, we could place the camera outside.
And we caught him! However, I’d stupidly pressed the “alarm” button, thinking that would be my notification, NOT a burglary alarm. We had a rude awakening some time in the middle of the night, but we knew he was safe!
He also came out at 10am, but we’d both left by that point so missed him then too.
I still have some adjusting to get the perfect angle but it’s hard when the cage is so full of bedding and whatnot.
Here he is from this morning! Not sure how to upload videos (if that’s even possible) or if they have to be uploaded to a file sharing site, but in one clip he ended up snoozing in his sand bath and the other he was having a real good sand flicking bath.