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Alright, so this is my first post here, but I'm a proud HHC lurker, and my many thanks go out to everyone on here for all the advice and help I've seen and read that helped prepared me for when I picked up little Bender last Monday. Pics are at bottom!
So for some backstory: As I mentioned, I picked him up last Monday, and had a good week with him. As one of my good friends was his breeder (don't worry, she's registered and very serious about her hedgies' health), I had already had a few afternoons where I had spent time with him, so he was already quite familiar with me and my scent.
Anywho, our first weekend together happened to be a traveling one, and something peaked my interest. While playing with my friends and I, he was pooping and peeing far, far more often than he did during the week, and everytime it was either on someone's hands or body. After these 'misshaps', he would be placed back in his traveling cage (which sadly isn't big enough for his massive igloo or flying saucer, but still comfortably big enough for him). Last night in particular, I had the feeling he was purposely having these accidents so that he would be put back in his cage, so I decided to put the theory to the test. In about a 30-50 minute window, he ended up pooping on me about 5 times (all the while getting progessively smaller, haha. They were all, however, brown and solid rather than green or runny) and peed 3 times, but I refused to put him back, simply changing shirts everytime he did so.
So here's my question: Is there any chance he's doing this on purpose so that he can just go back in his cage, or was he perhaps nervous from being in a new environment and meeting new people? If the former is the case, what can I do to work on changing this? Sorry for such a long first post, but I felt like some background was necessary to help in recognizing his behavior. I'll work on making future ones shorter!
Any fellow Futurama fans out there?[attachment=0:ldn1xaty]bender2.jpg[/attachment:ldn1xaty][attachment=1:ldn1xaty]bender.jpg[/attachment:ldn1xaty]
So for some backstory: As I mentioned, I picked him up last Monday, and had a good week with him. As one of my good friends was his breeder (don't worry, she's registered and very serious about her hedgies' health), I had already had a few afternoons where I had spent time with him, so he was already quite familiar with me and my scent.
Anywho, our first weekend together happened to be a traveling one, and something peaked my interest. While playing with my friends and I, he was pooping and peeing far, far more often than he did during the week, and everytime it was either on someone's hands or body. After these 'misshaps', he would be placed back in his traveling cage (which sadly isn't big enough for his massive igloo or flying saucer, but still comfortably big enough for him). Last night in particular, I had the feeling he was purposely having these accidents so that he would be put back in his cage, so I decided to put the theory to the test. In about a 30-50 minute window, he ended up pooping on me about 5 times (all the while getting progessively smaller, haha. They were all, however, brown and solid rather than green or runny) and peed 3 times, but I refused to put him back, simply changing shirts everytime he did so.
So here's my question: Is there any chance he's doing this on purpose so that he can just go back in his cage, or was he perhaps nervous from being in a new environment and meeting new people? If the former is the case, what can I do to work on changing this? Sorry for such a long first post, but I felt like some background was necessary to help in recognizing his behavior. I'll work on making future ones shorter!
Any fellow Futurama fans out there?[attachment=0:ldn1xaty]bender2.jpg[/attachment:ldn1xaty][attachment=1:ldn1xaty]bender.jpg[/attachment:ldn1xaty]
