The new indoor cage is here!

Well the new cage arrived yesterday and has been great cause for concern to both Bessie and Gypsy.  They aren't coming out as much although they did both dart about at speed at night time veggies time.  For some reason they don't react the same in the morning, they hide until veggies time.

Bessies back looks brilliant, the hair is almost all back in the spot where it came out.  We took both girls out last night and put them on a towel on the sofa, my husband one side and me the other side with our legs preventing them from running off and both came running over to me for protection.  Bessie snuggled up in my arm and Gypsy next to her.  I was very flattered but it throws the re-adoption of them up in the air.  The only thing that would prevent me from having them rehomed once tame is if they are scared of others but okay with me.  Last night they were exactly that.  Watch this space.

I also put them both together with a few of my guinea pigs and the photos are the results.  It was great actually and they got on very well indeed.  I got cocky and put in the top girl from my herd in too and that's when we got dominance displays.  It turns out that Bessie is happy to not be top but Gypsy is obviously top girl and she wasn't happy about Bessie being subservient to my Nibbles and following her around.  They rumble strutted, there was teeth chattering and they went inside a box and that started jumping around so I seperated them at that time.  I do plan on allowing play time again as it seemed to really help Gypsy and Bessie before that, they were running about normally in the open with the others.  But not going to put the two top girls in again as it wont work and I am not planning on housing them all together so it's unnecessary stress.  But until top girl went in it worked really well and all were happy.