picked her up earlier and within half an hour of taking her down she started sniffing my fingers and frothed on her quills. she anointed my brother as well with an added bonus of biting a chunk off his finger though X:



i'd like to thank nethelp and telileti who've been a real help to me with hog queries x)!

This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 15 2011, 11:09 AM

telileti do you by any chance know the brand of the playpen that you're using?

i read around and picked up that some playpens are either too low (11" - which would be lawn shrubs for hogs to hurdle through) or too light ._x

some at hedgehog central recommended this model -

http://www.petguys.com/-027773005030.html

but. googling. a. generic. brand. such. as. midwest. is. so. e.x.a.s.p.e.r.a.t.i.n.g >_>

sweet mother of towering monstrosity o___o



ive been stalking lil all day from behind my desk so that she wont feel stressed by my presence and at exactly 10:45pm she finally tried running on the wheel D;

let's just hope she likes to actually run on it instead of the previous things she did with it which including biting the legs, rubbing her back against it, pushing it to the other end and so forth ._o



edit*

after an hour plus of running she finally stopped for a drink, to which i jumped in to wipe the poop off her wheel. she took a lick at my wrist, scrambled to her blankie and pretended to be asleep.

..yeah im sure it wasnt her that encrusted the wheel >_> lol



This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 15 2011, 01:04 AM

that would be a -ve. i placed her poop in the poop bowl for her to get the idea, but it was kinda redundant since she was on her wheel not long after.. and poop was everywhere ._x!


btw she ate an accumulated amount of a tablespoon (+/-) within the duration of the night. should i be concerned? i'm just feeding her rc36 kibbles atm.

@telileti - .. i was worried that a tablespoon worth of food was too little xD


@shukri77 - you should be our resident handyman :P

i mean, she'd eat only about a tablespoon worth of food from the two tablespoon i'd leave at night :x

how's your hog doing shukri, is he more active now since moving him to your room?

shukri, where do you get your coroplast from. a hardware shop or ..? i was thinking of using acrylic but those sheets do not come cheap.

i usually get 11" x 11" x 5pcs to make display cases which would cost around rm50 in materials (chloroform included) a 2' x 2' box.. and i'd have to use thicker sheets too.

lil would not eat her mealworms ;o

tried snapping it in half as others suggested as well.

most she did to a "full" one was to take a bite, spat the worm away, licked her nose and moved on. lol ._o

This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 18 2011, 07:10 AM

yeah, was just rambling really. it'd be easier to show her she did something good if i could treat her with well, treats. but since she'd only eat rc36... ._x

go. get. iams D:! and mix up the two kibbles while reducing the portion of iams ._o



relinquish the multiple question marks ;o

blurp -



This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 18 2011, 08:12 PM

that and other misc info could be found here

This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 18 2011, 09:47 PM

there are 100yen shops in my ._o

http://100yen.com.my/index.php

yeah.. if you noticed some of the chains are really.. "what?" with nothing interesting. (like the one @ the strand in kota d'sara >.>) while others are really well stocked with many interesting itens.

yes, itens i tells yous!

whoever's planning on getting a dog playpen for their hogs, and thinks a 1" gap fencing isnt big enough for their hogs to pass through, i could personally vouch that they could.

facepalm*


in related news, im still looking for a playpen ._x

This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 20 2011, 03:42 PM

yeah.. she was going in AND out of the playpen compound via the gaps going "hey this new toy is awwwwsoooooome!" :shakehead:


when's chubster due btw?



hang in there nethelp! maybe it's the month of july's heat getting to syu :s

gave up on looking for a conventional playpen. settled on materials which i'm familiar with.

acrylic + binding tape *while waiting on my cousin to fabricate me some metal connectors

This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 23 2011, 04:53 PM

i was taking the pic, sabar la! lol

edit* didnt realise it's already 5+, time to play with her ><

http://i55.tinypic.com/28b8hgk.jpg

This post has been edited by olivur: Sep 6 2011, 01:56 AM

she does her business in the shavings, but.. she occasionally plays in said shavings too. so yeah, lol ><

have not seen her poo or pee on the plastic or blanky in her hide box though. (apart from the occasional stains on her blanky - from her nails, when she scratches around her blanky)



initially wanted to use cat litter for lili but im afraid that she wouldnt "like" it. im a little iffy about shavings too since some bits are really really small.

This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 23 2011, 08:37 PM

do you cuddle with her often? wear a top overnight and let your hog use it as her blanky so she's used to your scent :d


if that doesnt work.. i recommend you letting hibari hook up with huffy. lol :X

there are 4 "brands" of acrylic afaik. plexiglass, perspex, lucite and acrylite. the most common is perspex over here. perspex is cheaper but once it scratches it's harder to flame polish it back (basically use a blow torch and "polish" away the scratches)

plexiglass is available in malaysia but they're mainly used to construct lab instruments for either students in chem labs or precision equipments in the oil & gas sectors. my cousin is under that sector so she hooked me up.

but i do know the prices, since before asking for her help i asked around on the prices. an 11" x 11" x 2mm (thickness) piece of acrylic would cost roughly 10myr. i used 15pcs to make the circumference. 15 x 10 = 150myr. (+/- 10 myr for two rolls of binding tape)

it depends on shops of course, some would charge you as much as 20myr for an 11" x 11" sheet. and it's always cheaper to just buy a bigger sheet. (e.g 2m x 1m)


cheat sheet -

1. you could get it from advertisement shops or plate number shops and some hardware shops.
2. to cut acrylic, you'd need an acrylic cutter that looks like this -

3. to bond acrylic together you'd need chloroform. it basically melts and bonds the sheets together. but mind you it is a controlled substance. it's basically what people douche on handkerchiefs and place over people's face to render their targets unconscious.

4. but for a basic playpen, binding tape is cheaper and easier to work with. (that and the binding tape which comes into contact with the floor acts as a stopper so that the "walls" wont be easily pushed.

5. if you find a cheap source for acrylic, habaq mai na :x

This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 24 2011, 10:20 AM

what ai. lol >.>



This post has been edited by olivur: Jul 24 2011, 07:31 PM