Post by stellamaris on Mar 23, 2022 10:50:38 GMT -8
Annual update:
We have floor time almost every night, and he still popcorns happily about. He’ll lie quietly with his eyes closed for up to 10 minutes of petting and ‘scritching’. He turns his head so I can scritch his throat. Sometimes he squeeks.
He evidently enjoys grooming me, too. He’s pretty much destroyed one of my flannel shirts, and has busily chewed holes in one of my t-shirts. Now I have dedicated ‘gerbil-wear’.
Scooby and I are still doing fine. He seems happy in his bin and topper. Part of his space is all built up around his nest, and he likes crawling under his bridge and through his tubes, but he doesn’t play much in the other area. If the substrate’s shallow, he plows around and seems to have a good time, but as it gets deeper, he just stays on top! Funny guy.
For a while during his adolescence, he began nipping at my hand when I reached into his topper to clean & renew. He's stopped doing that either because he grew out of it, or because I started giving him a treat every morning before messing with his stuff. (Probably the latter. LOL!)
He evidently enjoys grooming me, too. He’s pretty much destroyed one of my flannel shirts, and has busily chewed holes in one of my t-shirts. Now I have dedicated ‘gerbil-wear’.
He also seems to enjoy my recorder-playing - especially the high notes! 
The other day, he winked at me for the first time (after a year!) so I winked back.
What a great little pet!
), late 70s