Cheddar's posts :) (pic heavy!)

[spud's_mum]

Got more chinchilla sand
Expensive stuff, £5 a carton but it lasts quite well so I guess it's worth it

 

[spud's_mum]

 

[spud's_mum]

Me: 'It's late and I need to get to sleep'
Cheddar: *chews bars*
Me: *looks at him*
Me: opens cage and plays with cheddar for ages.
Me: *wakes up and moans about being tired*

Yup. Pretty much sums my evenings up.

 

[spud's_mum]

awe he has sand on his nose!

 

[spud's_mum]

Posing for me on the bridge

 

[spud's_mum]

I was taking some pics...

And then he noticed...

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

My next project...
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I call it...
Mission Get cheddar a massive cage that can barely fit into my room

It's a rabbit/ Guinea pig cage but it's perfect for gerbils!

It's 98x58x61cm (L, W, H)
It's around £110. I'll have to save up and convince my parents to let me get it. It would hang off of the crate that the currant cage is on at the moment but that wouldn't madder that much.
I'm sure moaning at my parents 24/7 will make them let me buy it

That is pretty expensive!!!!!
Good luck!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I've been thinking of more names in case I get more.
I thought of the cutest girl names:
Pip and squeak

Lots of other cheese names available.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Well I put cheddar in an old dolls house.
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Then he trashed the table and threw all the food on the floor
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That is a wonderful series of photographs!
Adorable.
I think we should write a new version of "Goldilocks".

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Me: 'It's late and I need to get to sleep'
Cheddar: *chews bars*
Me: *looks at him*
Me: opens cage and plays with cheddar for ages.
Me: *wakes up and moans about being tired*

Yup. Pretty much sums my evenings up.

Wifey's the same.

 

[Rutibegga]

Great to hear that they like company, unlike torts that only run for food. One cannot really give and take with a tort, cannot train a tort, cannot train them to do anything.

I don't know that this is entirely true--there was a video floating around here of a zookeeper doing target training with a redfoot tortoise. They can definitely learn routines: mine knows that after soak he gets breakfast and the humans = snacks.

 

[Gillian M]

I don't know that this is entirely true--there was a video floating around here of a zookeeper doing target training with a redfoot tortoise. They can definitely learn routines: mine knows that after soak he gets breakfast and the humans = snacks.

There are "exceptions to each and every rule."

 

[Rutibegga]

There are "exceptions to each and every rule."

I wonder though: are torts "not trainable" or are they like cats--unwilling to bend to anyone else's will?

 

[Gillian M]

I wonder though: are torts "not trainable" or are they like cats--unwilling to bend to anyone else's will?

I posted a thread as far as training torts is concerned; after I tried uselessly to train OLI not to go into my bedroom, uselessly. In short, I was told that they cannot be trained, and that they only run for food. Too bad.

 

[spud's_mum]

Handsome cheds

Awe lil cheddar paw

 

[spud's_mum]

You can see his tiny eyelashes in the first pic

I need to get some more pics of spud but by the time I'm home from school he's normally asleep or I have work to do I'll get more pics at the weekend

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Handsome cheds
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Awe lil cheddar paw
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His feet are really wonderful!!!!

 

[spud's_mum]

His feet are really wonderful!!!!

I know right. They are really powerful so he can jump really high.
His front paws are really small though and his claws are getting really long at the front, one is even curling over. I need to get some rocks for him to climb on and scratch them down. I will have to cut the really long one but it's so hard holding him still!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I know right. They are really powerful so he can jump really high.
His front paws are really small though and his claws are getting really long at the front, one is even curling over. I need to get some rocks for him to climb on and scratch them down. I will have to cut the really long one but it's so hard holding him still!

I can imagine!
Good luck with that.

 

[spud's_mum]

WOOOHOOO!
I'm going to the pet shop!
Have you ever seen a teenager so happy to go to a pet shop?