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Post by Manix on Dec 13, 2004 11:29:47 GMT -8
I recently added a second story to Rins cage. To get up there, Rin has to climb a straight tube. He has no trouble doing this as he's done it at least twice now. Unfortunatly, he has no idea how to get back down. He knows he needs to use the tube, but he's reluctant to go back down. Both occassions where he has managed to climb up the tube I have had to remove the second story and Rin, then place him back into the first level. What can I do for him to show him that going down the tube isn't horrible? He usually gets mad at it after awhile and tries to yank it out of place and throw it. Do you think he would be better off with a ramp? This would take up more space and be harder to replace, but if he's "vertically challenged" I don't want him to miss out on the added cage space.
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Post by bettybob on Dec 13, 2004 12:33:20 GMT -8
maybe he just isnt confident that he can. my gerbs arent afraid of hights. if you had a tube with a little bit of a curve to it maybe that wouldnt look as scarry cus he couldnt see where he is going.
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Post by Manix on Dec 13, 2004 12:50:13 GMT -8
I'll give that try. It would be alot easier to add a tube than devise a ramp!
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pixytwinkle
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Post by pixytwinkle on Dec 14, 2004 9:32:52 GMT -8
when i got my 7 week old gerbil i had this problem for a while but after he watched my old gerbil go down the tube a few times he became more and more confident. Maybe with a little more time. I know if it was me i would never go down those things straight away lol ;D
Id wait at least two weeks to see if he become more confident.
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Post by Manix on Dec 14, 2004 9:58:27 GMT -8
I rearranged the tubes last night, it's entirerly curved with no straight drops. I'll probably come home to a very irritable Gerbil who has been stuck on the second floor of his house for half the day becuase he's too chicken to go down the tube.
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Post by bettybob on Dec 14, 2004 11:11:37 GMT -8
you'd think he would learn not to go up there if he really hated coming back down so much.
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Post by Manix on Dec 16, 2004 5:30:55 GMT -8
FINALLY. Rin has learn how to go DOWN the tubes. I had to set them up at a very gradual slope to get him there, but at least now he can get himself down from the second story without my help. =)
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Post by queenofthenile on Dec 16, 2004 7:05:31 GMT -8
Congrats ;D! Poor guy, stuck up on the second story by himself.
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