BACKGROUND INFO:
Tobi is almost 9 weeks now, it's his 2nd week home with us and has been adapting really well! Eats, drinks, poops, pees, wheels, plays, and sleeps a lot! He's an explorer so he's always running around when he's in his play pen (around 10pm).
BEHAVIOR:
He's been pretty much the same every day, except last night I noticed he was a bit more tired than usual -- he didn't want to play in his play pen, just wanted to be held in his blanket. Which I did, I held him in his blanket in my arms for 3 hours last night as I worked on my paper (11pm-2am). I didn't think much of it, thought his wild wheel-run the night before tired him out.
HEAT/SETUP:
We have a space heater for him, and the thermometer is always around 73-75.5 degrees. There's also a snuggledisc in his cage just for an extra heat spot if he needs it. He usually just sleeps under his fleece strips, under a fleece bed (cozybeds turned upside-down).
MY PANIC ATTACK!!!
When we got home from work today around 5pm, we greeted him as usual and he didn't move under the bed. Again, thought he was extra tired from the amount of poop and pee I cleaned off the wheel this morning, it looked like he had a busy night.
I took the bed off of him and he was curled in this HUGE (like twice his normal size) PUFFY BALL! He looked like he had been inflated! I've never seen him sleep like this! Is this normal?! I kept saying his name and telling him to wake up, and he was so slow to move and wake up. I turned the space heater up a little bit and within 3-5 minutes he finally uncurled and woke up for me. He did some weird leg thing when he was trying to uncurl, I'm not sure if it was considered "wobbly" or if it was from sleeping for the past 10+ hours.
I couldn't tell if he was cold or not, but his cage temp was 73-ish when we got home. When he finally uncurled, he was slow to move at first, and within a few minutes of waking up, he ate a few pieces, drink a little, pooped, peed, and then tried to go hide again. He's never taken that long to uncurl before! He's always up and looking up at me by the time he hears our voices and I lift the bed up.
I put his pouch in his cage, and he climbed right in. So now he's in his pouch, in my hoodie. Is he going to try to hibernate again in here?!
Was that a hibernation attempt?! I can't tell! Am I overreacting?! We have huge loft windows in our apartment, but if he's under the bed, is he not getting enough sunlight?!
I'm so in love with him, I was in tears when he scared me like that. Is he going to try to do it again? I'm not sure what I did wrong!
Tobi is almost 9 weeks now, it's his 2nd week home with us and has been adapting really well! Eats, drinks, poops, pees, wheels, plays, and sleeps a lot! He's an explorer so he's always running around when he's in his play pen (around 10pm).
BEHAVIOR:
He's been pretty much the same every day, except last night I noticed he was a bit more tired than usual -- he didn't want to play in his play pen, just wanted to be held in his blanket. Which I did, I held him in his blanket in my arms for 3 hours last night as I worked on my paper (11pm-2am). I didn't think much of it, thought his wild wheel-run the night before tired him out.
HEAT/SETUP:
We have a space heater for him, and the thermometer is always around 73-75.5 degrees. There's also a snuggledisc in his cage just for an extra heat spot if he needs it. He usually just sleeps under his fleece strips, under a fleece bed (cozybeds turned upside-down).
MY PANIC ATTACK!!!
When we got home from work today around 5pm, we greeted him as usual and he didn't move under the bed. Again, thought he was extra tired from the amount of poop and pee I cleaned off the wheel this morning, it looked like he had a busy night.
I took the bed off of him and he was curled in this HUGE (like twice his normal size) PUFFY BALL! He looked like he had been inflated! I've never seen him sleep like this! Is this normal?! I kept saying his name and telling him to wake up, and he was so slow to move and wake up. I turned the space heater up a little bit and within 3-5 minutes he finally uncurled and woke up for me. He did some weird leg thing when he was trying to uncurl, I'm not sure if it was considered "wobbly" or if it was from sleeping for the past 10+ hours.
I couldn't tell if he was cold or not, but his cage temp was 73-ish when we got home. When he finally uncurled, he was slow to move at first, and within a few minutes of waking up, he ate a few pieces, drink a little, pooped, peed, and then tried to go hide again. He's never taken that long to uncurl before! He's always up and looking up at me by the time he hears our voices and I lift the bed up.
I put his pouch in his cage, and he climbed right in. So now he's in his pouch, in my hoodie. Is he going to try to hibernate again in here?!
Was that a hibernation attempt?! I can't tell! Am I overreacting?! We have huge loft windows in our apartment, but if he's under the bed, is he not getting enough sunlight?!
I'm so in love with him, I was in tears when he scared me like that. Is he going to try to do it again? I'm not sure what I did wrong!