Socks: Mouseworks Dynamic Cardboard Redesign and Basic Tunneling

[Socks' Mum]

I've always thought the omelet playpen looked good. Hope enjoys it. Love the word jumblement...its a great word

&: Thank you

 

[Maz]

It is a great word

 

[Socks' Mum]

Socks: You go first.
Mom: no you...
Mom: Oh, OK... It was nest jumbling
Socks: AKA cleaning
Mom: Nest jumbling time Socks took longer than usual to get up.
Socks: She kept fiddling and then backing off, I thought she was just checking as she sometimes does and tried to go back to sleep, but finally...
Mom: I messed up Socks' cost little nest lifting him out into the carrier.
Socks: Weighing and all that messing about. Then to be woken up again to go back in
Mom: I offered Socks his veggie dinner. He refused but I tried again, intercepting him on his way back to his nest. He lifted his paw up. In the old days that would have been a hamster swat and a flump
Socks: but all I could manage was a little push with my paw.
Mom: He turned sharply into the tunnel under platform 2.
Socks: (The hamster tube leaves from platform one )
Mom: I tried to arrange his shoe box house to make it more accessible and comfortable.
Socks: I couldn't face going home to a jumbled nest so I used my satellite nest

 

[Socks' Mum]

Mom: Socks came out a bit later and started digging in the doorway of his shoebox house. I tried to help him by removing more bedding, making the entrance wider. Then he turned round and started shovelling bedding back into the doorway.
Socks: She thought I was confused and had things the wrong way round
Mom: but every time I cleared the doorway, Socks filled it up again. I think he was trying to make a statement
Mom: I thought he might never use his shoebox house again
Socks: After a couple of days I moved back in.
Mom: I was very relieved.
Mom and Socks:

 

[Maz]

Definitely a statement - I don’t want help thank you! I think it’s funny that when we try and help by clearing a bit if bedding they shovel it all back again . Raffy used to do that - I had to keep moving a bit of bedding as his digging jammed up his wheel and if he saw me he would madly dig and put it all back again. There is something that we can’t see in their architectural digging process I guess. Either that or it’s just “keep your hands out”!

 

[Socks' Mum]

Yes, hehe, keep your hands out was definitely part of Socks' message I'm glad he hasn't abandoned his shoebox house though

 

[Maz]

He loves it so he's gone back to make it his own again

 

[Lovelyness]

Socks: You go first.
Mom: no you...
Mom: Oh, OK... It was nest jumbling
Socks: AKA cleaning
Mom: Nest jumbling time Socks took longer than usual to get up.
Socks: She kept fiddling and then backing off, I thought she was just checking as she sometimes does and tried to go back to sleep, but finally...
Mom: I messed up Socks' cost little nest lifting him out into the carrier.
Socks: Weighing and all that messing about. Then to be woken up again to go back in
Mom: I offered Socks his veggie dinner. He refused but I tried again, intercepting him on his way back to his nest. He lifted his paw up. In the old days that would have been a hamster swat and a flump
Socks: but all I could manage was a little push with my paw.
Mom: He turned sharply into the tunnel under platform 2.
Socks: (The hamster tube leaves from platform one )
Mom: I tried to arrange his shoe box house to make it more accessible and comfortable.
Socks: I couldn't face going home to a jumbled nest so I used my satellite nest

Ah yes, Blossom took to staying in bed while I cleaned her out, including during a full cage reshuffle when I lowered everything to make it easier to get about. She assisted in cleaning by turfing out dirty bedding from her nest for me to remove a day or so after I’d cleaned out the rest of her cage

 

[Maz]

I wish Tino would turf out dirty bedding - he never has - he doesn't do cleaning ha ha. However he does now use his sand bath as a toilet which helps. Maybe he realised peeing where he slept wasn't that much fun. Although it took him long enough to realise (over a year!).

 

[Lovelyness]

Blossom never got the hang of her corner toilet…I think she used it twice to wee in, then just kept some of her stash in