The Goblin Diaries (previously Quitting Smoking)

Mourne doesn't like treats (I have 3 kinds), marigolds and, of all things, pea flakes.

Bann likes all of the above.

Mourne thinks I'm favouring Bann.

Bann thinks Mourne's an idiot.

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Bann hasn't wanted to get off his bed all day. Uh oh. Is he cold? Not to the touch, nice and toasty warm aside from cold ears (sorry wee man, I needed to pick you up to check).

Turned the thermostat up to 20° and oh, look at that, we've stopped clinging to the bed like our life depends on it.

The thermostat was previously at 19.5°, let's not pretend it was cold. I'm such a sucker and he knows it.
 
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Bann enjoying his new bed from Auntie @Betsy:

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Do you see that carrot cottage? It's there for a reason, and that reason is Mourne, who keeps trying to dig under the grids. I keep saying it's wasted effort, but what would I know, I'm not a guinea pig.

But I took Bann's bed out to warm the Snugglesafe, as I usually do, and when I heard the microwave ding I went downstairs to discover Bann had shifted it away from the grids and was interacting with Mourne in a friendly, not-at-all dominant way. Cooperation through the bars, eh? I've moved it back, lol.

Also he trashed his abode:

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Lorcan said:
Bann enjoying his new bed from Auntie @Betsy:

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Do you see that carrot cottage? It's there for a reason, and that reason is Mourne, who keeps trying to dig under the grids. I keep saying it's wasted effort, but what would I know, I'm not a guinea pig.

But I took Bann's bed out to warm the Snugglesafe, as I usually do, and when I heard the microwave ding I went downstairs to discover Bann had shifted it away from the grids and was interacting with Mourne in a friendly, not-at-all dominant way. Cooperation through the bars, eh? I've moved it back, lol.

Also he trashed his abode:

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Very happy Bann likes his new bed.
 
MOURNE!

I gave Bann a treat earlier and I offered Mourne a pellet, because Mourne doesn't eat treats. Mourne didn't want a pellet. He didn't want a treat either. He wanted whatever Bann got and they couldn't be the same thing because Bann was eating it! And enjoying it! And Bann surely wouldn't be eating that yucky stuff, right?

He's been vocally sulking with me ever since. There's no convincing him he's got it wrong, lol.
 
Well tonight we had progress! Mourne, who has so far paid little or no mind to hay cubes, pea flakes, four different sorts of treats, actually immediately started eating a hay cookie!

But he didn't keep it up. Now I'm upstairs and I can hear relentless chatter. Again. Oh Mourne.

Edit - oh and Bann's managed to cocoon himself sitting on his bed and wrapping his fleece blanket around him - his doing, not mine, don't ask me how - and he is refusing to leave his cocoon. And his hay cookie is just a teensy bit far away. But he won't leave, so he just keeps his head craned outwards that little bit further than he'd like.

It can't be comfortable, but Bann is Bann, lol.
 
I wish he wouldn't, I have nightmares about him burning his feet and belly because he shifts the fleece pad away for better access to a nice, warm Snugglesafe. I'd like to think he had the brains to not let that happen, but....well. You can understand the problem, lol.
 
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If that gets shifted tonight, well I've done what I can. If I put it in the cover he chews and pulls at the cover, and that's as tight as I can wrap it up. He's already been trying when he thinks I'm not watching lol and when I say his name he goes all Surprise Pikachu on me 😂
 
Lorcan said:
I was having a serious conversation with someone else in my living room when Mourne decided it was time for a popcorn & zoomies session. 😱 It's always when I have visitors, lol.
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He must have realised that your attention had wandered from being his slave.
 
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