the intros are not going as well as i had hoped! i thought spock and mae would be really easy because they were grooming faces through the cage. and they're ok, groom faces for a bit.. but then they start mounting each other and it gets a bit heated. no biting or any nastiness but i'm still not keen. especially as mae only has one back leg.
the other lot, ffynn and the three girls, there's no mounting but ffynn is rather scared of them. he's ok for a bit an then it gets all too much for him and he goes and hides!!!
it's so weird, with fluffy and chinchi, it was very definite. he wanted to kill her for the first two months, then he decided that actually he rather liked her and would like to groom her face for the next two hours. this lot are difficult! you think you've cracked it and then they mess it up! i think more playdates and patience will hopefully sort it out. at least no one's trying to hurt anybody.
aww, i hope your poor little boy starts eating soon. i wonder why he's not eating.. chinchi only stopped eating when he developed the infection, he was eating as normal after the surgery (that's one of the reasons we didn't suspect anything was wrong) and the boys never stopped eating. does he not like critical care? which critical care have you got? if you're in the us, you can get the apple & banana flavoured cc (we can't get that over here) and see if he likes that better. or you could try the fine grind cc - mae loves this yet she won't have the normal stuff.
how do you prepare it? do you syringe cc into him? i found with chinchi, he liked his made into a paste rather than liquid but it needed to be moist. he also liked it warm. mae and her fine grind cc, she likes that as a paste as well. if you syringe it, you could try giving it to him off your finger - just be careful, mae just licked it off, chinchi bit so hard into my finger it bled so he had it off a spoon after that.