The Goblin Diaries (previously Quitting Smoking)

Bann's just happy to chomp on things and fingers are fair game. I fed him something long once, mangetout, sugar snap, green bean, one of those. I offered him one end while I held the other, he sniffed right along it til he found my fingers, and then clamped down on those instead.

It's gotta be deliberate at some point, right?
 
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I'd like to give Cam some praise tonight. He wanted his pellets and came to me for his first. The Burgess are tiny but he sniffed it, then my fingers, then decisively went for the correct option.

If that had been Bann...no. Bann does not get hand fed the Burgess.
 
Oh bless him. It is lovely to see the sun and feel some warmth at last. Bertie had the sun across his cage this morning, the excitement of this and a clean fleece caused him to do multiple standing still popcorn launches whilst shaking his head..
 
He was standing on some paper while it happened too, so that noise was added to the mix. Cam, for once in his life, stayed quiet :)) it was lovely to watch them though, even if they did keep watching me like I'd lost the plot lol
 
Bed time.

Entered the bedroom. Cam's out and runs towards me chittering happily. This alerts Bann. Bann exits a bed, does the same thing.

The Snugglesafes are at the back of the cage and I have two goblins in my way.

Grumble. Loudly. Okay. Found a route to walk in that didn't endanger them. Bann bolted for cover. Cam? Oh no. Cam ran towards my feet instead.

And then...

I got one Snugglesafe our and put it down to grab the second and in the half second my back was turned Cam's sitting on the other one.

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Bann.

Just went in to check on them and who else would have a white glob under his left eye? Anywhere else, meh. The eye? So I got led on a merry dance round half the cage and let him sit for a minute when I got him to let him calm down and then checked. No white glob.

I mean I'm sorry mate but it's your eye we're talking about here.
 
Every Tesco order involves 4 bell pepper multipacks because I only shop once a week and a good number of those 12 peppers is done before I can get to using them. Sorry Tesco but it's necessary, but tonight there was a brown bag in the trays and I wondered what it could possibly be. I asked the delivery guy if I could keep it and he said it was in my delivery trays so he couldn't stop me.

My friends, meet the massive pepper in the brown bag:

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(with galas for scale)
 
Tossed a couple of mint sprigs into the cage earlier. The first (and smaller) one lands in front of Cam's bed. No favouritism involved, that's just how it landed. Cam's out and looking when I toss the other one in.

Now, this landed well away from his own doorway. The first one was much, much closer, but Cam craned half his body round the corner to get the bigger one.

By the time Bann's git his head out, "his" mint is missing, so I'm getting dirty looks for enticing him out of bed for nothing.

🤷‍♂️
 
@fluffysal @Minnou @Betsy it's finally happened and I'm ready to go into the Worst Humans Ever group (just, not slave. Human, not slave. Ahem)

I went to give them lots of hay. Cam was running around like a maniac. He finally stopped and I dropped the pile of hay to where he wasn't...until I dropped it.

He ran to where it was going to land and basically ended up with a hay blanket. :doh:

I can only do so much, it's not my fault he's so adamant about misbehaving.
 
I'm minding my own business doing jigsaws and watching TV, the goblins got breakfast at 11am, and all's well. Right?

Of course not. I heard a very loud crash followed by high speed running. My face went 🤨. I paused the TV to investigate and I can see one bed twitching and movement in another and there's chatter. Not angry chatter, not upset chatter, just chatter.

I have no idea what they did. Or who did what. They seemed mostly confused I was even there.
 
See normally they do one of two things with this behaviour - either they'll do something similar to Hide & Seek and stay in bed as still as possible, OR they'll acknowledge it was a ruse and come running (Bann) or bouncing (yes, Cam, you delinquent) because Human! TREATS! HUMAN!
 
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