MORK!

Okay there hasn't been too much to report last few weeks.  Everything is fine still. Bessie STILL gets really scared being picked up but is okay once on your lap and will eat.  Even if a cat is about so that's fine.

Gypsy is laid back now and is easy to get.  In fact she doesn't even run away when I put veggies in now.  In fact she starts to eat before the bowl has touched the floor!

I have decided though that they need a friend.  I wasn't going to get one but this poor little chap caught my eye.  He's been in a cage in a pet shop for aaaaaages.  Months.  A black and white abyssinian with ruby eyes.  Everytime I have gone in there he's been hiding but I have caught glimpses of him.

I emailed the shop and tried to get them to give him free to a good loving hom or put him up for adoption rather than the £18 they wanted forhim but they absolutely refused.  I was told her would go home to live with a staff member very soon if he didn't sell.

Went in again a week later and he was gone.  I was so pleased for him, he had a home!

Went back 2 weeks later and he's there again.  I was gutted.  Turns out someone took him home one week to house with a rabbit (!!!) but then decided for no particular reason they didn't want him after all and brought him back the following Monday.

Well I could take it no more and decided to take him and get him neutered and then put him in with my 6 girls.  Then I changed my mind then I changed it again then I changed it again and so on for days.  Finally I thought HMM what about Bessie and Gypsy.  They are a really small herd and it's a very natural thing putting a boy in.  It may help them come out of their shells even more.  They don't spend as much time going about the cage foraging as they others, could he help them?  Once I decided he was to be friends with Bessie and Gypsy I went and took him home.

He's currently housed alone and due for the snip next week.  I put his cage next to Bessie and Gypsy in the run and they are all excited.  The girls run up to him and he to the girls.  I am very hopeful it will work out.

Here he is.  Isn't he cute?
I think his future is bright now with the girls and theirs is getting better too.
I have ordered a supersize cage that will be here tomorrow and I am going to section it off for the time they can't be together and will of course remove that once he's unable to impregnant them.

happy days!