06-16-2010, 05:49 PM
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I ought to get an update photo. Snowy has grown so much.
He is still very possessive over his wheel, if we go into his cage he leaps on it, only to get back off if he is offered a trip out in his roller ball (his second favourite toy).
He does 'in-flight' checks on it every evening. We watch him, get out of bed with the usual hamster routine of the bathroom, stretch, yawn, a belly scratch, rummage in the food bowl.
Then he studies the wheel inside, outside the rim, peers through the holes in the back (not sure why there are there myself- he is clearly puzzled by them) check the spindle, gets off then to check around the back, climbs the bars and checks the top (this is where sometimes he is in the embarrassing situation of getting 'stuck'). The final test is a gentle rotation clockwise and then anti-clockwise. He will then either get off and be busy with something else or will climb his platform line himself up and leap across the cage into the wheel and he is off, full pelt, until something distracts him or (which happens less), he forgets to brake and gets spun off
He is still very possessive over his wheel, if we go into his cage he leaps on it, only to get back off if he is offered a trip out in his roller ball (his second favourite toy).
He does 'in-flight' checks on it every evening. We watch him, get out of bed with the usual hamster routine of the bathroom, stretch, yawn, a belly scratch, rummage in the food bowl.
Then he studies the wheel inside, outside the rim, peers through the holes in the back (not sure why there are there myself- he is clearly puzzled by them) check the spindle, gets off then to check around the back, climbs the bars and checks the top (this is where sometimes he is in the embarrassing situation of getting 'stuck'). The final test is a gentle rotation clockwise and then anti-clockwise. He will then either get off and be busy with something else or will climb his platform line himself up and leap across the cage into the wheel and he is off, full pelt, until something distracts him or (which happens less), he forgets to brake and gets spun off
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