Hamster update
It is surprising how much personalities can differ between two hamsters. Of the two, one is very shy and reserved, terrified of being touched, and content to stay in a tiny space all day. The other is far more adventurous and will happily eat out of my hand. He is also scheming ways to escape from the habitat.
I recently added an extension to his habitat (no picture yet). I bought a larger module and connected them with a set of “toobs” [sic]. He climbs up a straight toob, across a longish flat toob, and then down another descender. To get him to explore the new module I moved his water into it. He was happy for a while to travel back and forth between water and nest-and-food-stash. One day, however, he very deliberately moved house: he went to the new module, made a new nest by the water bottle, carefully moved his entire food cache over, then (apparently) destroyed evidence of his previous nest. To be honest, I never considered that he would do this. Now he lives primarily in the new (larger) module but still visits the other for foraging and exercise.
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