I just cleaned out the habitat of one of the hamsters (my favorite one.)  He will regularly build a nest right against his water bottle, but the contact of the bedding material to the spout causes a slow leak, and he ends up with soaked bedding and an empty bottle.  This weekend I will get some expansion modules to extend his habitat, and try moving the water to a different compartment.

The bedding was thoroughly saturated this time; I had to remove all of it, including his food store, which was also drenched.  This is obviously stressful for him, and before I had even finished putting dry bedding in the habitat, he was already arranging it properly.  He seems to know exactly where everything needs to go (they are fairly neurotic rodents, I feel.)  I wish I understood the system so that I could arrange the replacement bedding in the proper fashion.  But I don’t, so I instead watched him for twenty minutes as he relandscaped the enclosure.  Poor little guy.

Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:21:38 +0000
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