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General Chat / Re: Play time

« on: March 25, 2013, 09:53:35 AM »

Peaches lives in the study, my other half or & I open her cage after dinner time and let her out for an hour or so, one of us sits in the study too just in case & to keep her company. She likes it if you lie down so that she can use your bum as a trampoline... Cheeky thing. She also likes to climb up us to get to higher shelves on the book case or get onto the forbidden desk... She's worked out that if she jumps onto the radiator (it's on really low, don't worry hah) and then she can get onto the desk, where she perches and looks at us as if to say 'but I'm not on the forbidden desk, I can see some paper in the printer that looks like it could do with a nibble.' Oh well, she likes it up there, what can you do.
Peaches also likes her bunny castle, if you put it against a wall, she'll wiggle herself behind it and go inside, then jump out as if you couldn't have possibly seen her go in. She likes the Argos catalogue though, her favourite chewing page is the one with hairdryers on it? Any other page and she just stares at you.
She does have quite a lot of toys, but at play time she seems to prefer interacting with us and getting stroked and running in and out of her cage, taking toys in and out as she pleases. But woe betide if you even try to pick her up, she bolts. Can't really blame her though, don't think I'd like to be picked up.

Q & A / Re: Flippy Chin

« on: August 28, 2012, 02:10:33 PM »

Sumersault, or however it's spelt. She'll just be standing there then, not so much jump, but spin herself around mid-air, then speed off.

Q & A / Flippy Chin

« on: August 28, 2012, 12:47:56 PM »

Peaches has taken up flipping round the room? She goes mad, I don't know if it could be because she's still nervous of us, as we've only had her nearly 2 weeks. But she didn't do this until she'd been with us for a week. She has a wheel in her cage that she adores, so I kinda ruled out pent up energy.
She'll come out of her cage herself and explore the room, then after a while the flipping starts. She jumps now too which is a good thing I imagine, but the flipping caught me off guard. A bit worried she'll hurt herself, though I imagine with the amount of fur chinnies have she should be relitively ok as far as little bumps go?

Chit Chat / Re: Real life ghost stories...Anyone have one to share??

« on: August 26, 2012, 03:30:08 PM »

I've had lots of paranormal experiences when I was living in my parents house, well in both houses that I lived in with them (we moved house when I was 4). Mum used to come and check on me at night before she went to bed, at the old house, and used to find a blurred figure watching over me. She never thought it was an issue and it has never become one, more like a guardian angel/not threatening. So this continued to the new house aswell. Bottles used to move across the porch of their own accord, etc.
There were many times when I had friends come to stay the night and we would hear running from the upstairs hallway and coming down the stairs, opening the door to the living room where we were and there would be nothing there.
Their house was built over an old hall that was used in WW2, so I guess there must be something in the land? Odd. They still have occurences since I moved out, but not as much, more just the running sound from the landing.

Cages / Re: Cage cleaning

« on: August 26, 2012, 03:11:01 PM »

Here's a picture of her cage, it only has one door and it's not huge.

My arm isn't long enough lol, I got my other half to clean the far shelf areas as his arms are a bit longer. I could get a washing up brush or one of those sponges with a long handle... This could work, ta

Cages / Cage cleaning

« on: August 26, 2012, 02:03:46 PM »

Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning a wire bottomed cage that you can't reach the far side of?
I've just been spraying, throwing kitchen roll at the wet bit it and closing the door for a few minutes whilst it dries and then using whatever I can to get the kitchen roll back out...