I wouldnt call it amazing, you get used to it if you spend enough time with them, which I have more time on my hands than I care for. Sparky and Tayla have...
that's awesome that they refund u b/c it was their fault for sending u a bad cage. when we first got rats they came in a plastic bottom cage as well. they...
... i've read that degus can get to be 11 1/2 inches in the body. they say the females are supposed to be bigger but i haven't noticed it. our male is quite...
... that's amazing that u can tell the difference like that. i know the male b/c he has a slit in his ear, he's bigger then the female, and he churps really...
... Yeah, would be nice if they did. They really do have personalities, and each of mine have their own little traits that are distinguishable. Maybe it's...
One of mine tries to dig on the metal shelf and I'm sure ... Yeah, my little guy buster figured that dragging his food dish under the wheel with just the right...
Hi Rachel I wouldnt use the size as a hard and fast rule, at least not in my opinion. Tayla <I call her lil bit, sometimes lil bit&H!>, the mama, is the...
Thank you all for ur help. I do want to breed them b/c there aren't many people who breed them in pa. If u checked out my website u'll see that we have many...
Hi Amanda If the goos are around two years old and haven't bred yet, I seriously doubt whether they ever will. Goo females can get pregnant at 6 months old (or...
Hey Amanda, If they are young, they should still breed. Please be aware, their gestation is 90 days and you can not always tell if the female is pregnant ...
hi, i'm new to this group. My boyfriend and I just bought 2 degus, a male and a female. We would like to breed them since they're such great partners. We...
lol Glad you got a wheel, Rachel. I find wheels are definitely an essential
with critters like this. While mine still chew on their cage too much, the
wheels...
Hello Yes, they were running on the wheel ALL last evening! And when I came downstairs this morning they were running again! They stopped when food was...
We told you they'd like it, didn't we, Rachel? Hee hee, yes - they LOVE wheels, even my lazy pair! Of course it should all keep them too busy to be having...
It's not huge but it's big enough for the two them to run side by side on it. I think it's 22cm diameter and about 10cm wide. And they ARE still running now!...
THREE HOURS LATER AND THEY ARE STILL RUNNING! THEY ARE IN THE WHEEL - TOGETHER! I've never seen anything like it! It's great, they love it! And NO chewing of...
...AND THEY LOVE IT!!! YAY!!! They were unsure at first - Chip had a good look around, smelled it, bit it, climbed around it and studied it from every angle....
LOL, you're just a party pooper, Joanna! My goos are (thankfully?) too lazy now to bother chewing or rattling, and mostly ignore toys and trinkets, though I do...
Yes that is true! One time I gave my degus a paper bag and they made SO much noise with it I didn't give them another ;) Joanna From: degumail@yahoogroups.com...
Ohhhh... never thought about the key ring thing... will have to give that a try because my girls do the machine gun cage chew AND the shelf digging, and they...
I think part of the noise element is wanting to come out - I know one that my most tamed pair were pretty convinced they shouldn't live in a cage and would...
Hi Maureen Firstly, YES, the metal chewing noise is driving me around the bend, they are mainly chewing at the door of the cage - they are clever, could it be...
Hi Rachel My goos have always had the wheels in at all times - I dread to think of the noise I would get from the metal chewing otherwise! Re Chip nipping at...
Hi As you may know, if you've been reading my messages, Chip grew to be larger than Dale in a week. (Chip appears to be the ever expanding degu! Is this...
Hi Charlene, Hope you're still looking at replies to your post, I always seem to be behind reading them and end up replying really late to stuff! I live near...
One of the things I do when the goos seem restless and bored (despite having more toys than most toddlers) is I re-arrange their cage. They're slightly OCD I...
As you know, the fighting was bad at the weekend. Dale, who was originally the bigger goo, suddenly was the smaller one! And Chip took full advantage - and...
Rachel, in reply to your question about wheels, metal ones are fine. I would
not go with plastic when it comes to these creatures unless you want to be...
They do go through a sort of puberty where there'll be lots of squabbles and mounting (even between same sexes - so if you're confident you've got a same sex...
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