Truffle and Polo

[Truffolo]

A little bit of space. I took away the acrylic sheets, Correx and cardboard. Now they can see into each others cages, but the gap between the cages is about three inches and they have both stopped bar biting rumbling, teeth chattering and sashaying.

 

[Truffolo]

Truffle got up and started bar biting just as I posted, but nothing serious. Polo didn't react
If I need to, I can pull the blanket down so they can't see each other, to stop the bar biting, but it wasn't anything extreme, so I've left it as it was.

 

[AidaB]

Our boys also live in a divided home. Wally is a notorious bar chewer, some days he decides to attack the divide- other days it’s all about hoping for food. He is quite full on when meeting a new piggie through the divide, then calms down. You might find that you can move your boys closer in a week or so, and even let them share a wall again.
Hope you had a quiet night.

 

[Truffolo]

Thank you Yes, when Truffle wants breakfast he bites the bars to summon me. Polo seems relaxed now there is a bit of space between the cages, but they can see each other, and of course hear and smell what is going on. Wally and Truffle seem to have the same strategy of letting the bars have it. They were nice and relaxed all night, thank goodness. No more administering pea flakes at 1am

 

[Truffolo]

Polo is taking the Metacam quite well, after being a bit apprehensive of the syringe, and is more energetic and less puffy. He is running around and popcorning a lot more and isn't drowsy at all

 

[Merab]

That’s good news

 

[Truffolo]

Snuggle safe dreams

 

[Ramia]

Metacam and snuggle safe. Bliss.

 

[Truffolo]

Metacam and snuggle safe. Bliss.

 

[Truffolo]

The Last Day of Metacam is tomorrow. Then the slow realisation that no matter how charming he is (he took it very carefully this evening in little sips, without biting the syringe at all) there is No More Metacam

 

[Merab]

He’ll report you to Miss Bramble for cruel and undeserved deprivation

 

[Truffolo]

He’ll report you to Miss Bramble for cruel and undeserved deprivation

Oh Polo, what is happening to you?

 

[Truffolo]

Confessions of a Metacam connoisseur
But today's dose was the end of the course

 

[Truffolo]

Quick with the hay, the customers are wondering what has happened to it

 

[Truffolo]

Snuggle safe snoozing

 

[Merab]

 

[Ramia]

So peaceful..

 

[Truffolo]

Truffle likes to persuade me to feed him veggies in his loft, biting the bars to get me to hurry up
This worked so well that he seemed to be avoiding going downstairs to eat hay. The hay trays were too tidy and seemed hardly used. Eventually he seemed to get a bit OCD about coming downstairs. When food was offered downstairs, he stopped halfway along the ramp, then had a little tantrum, going forward, then backwards and then trying to turn around in the narrow confines of the ramp, and throwing his head around in a sort of tantrum when that didn't work.
I took down the ramp temporarily and Truffle spends more time downstairs now. He hasn't lost weight over the last few days and I have stopped spoiling him, which means less bar biting He is using his loft again, but feeding and snoozing on both levels.
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[Truffolo]

Cozy snoozes