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| Name: |
Degu Daddy
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Age: |
One year old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Degu
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| Home: |
Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada
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This
is "Degu Daddy," "Degu D," or just "D." When I received my position
managing the small animal department in the pet store he was actually
one the first degus I encountered, along with his eight daughters! The staff
before myself did not sex the degus, and kept the males and females
together and what became of that was many, many litters; he was finally
separated but was left without a roommate and became very depressed and
antisocial.
When I came into the picture I named him Degu Daddy, because well, he's
a daddy! I began to handle him and was so amused by him turning his
cheek and smiling when you would scratch under his chin and behind his
ears. I carried him with me everywhere to make him more social, and gave
him a wheel to lose some weight (weight is something in a degu that
needs to be strictly maintained). Everyone in the store knew how much I
loved him; and he soon became a lean mean loving people machine! I
begged and begged my parents to let me have my little buddy, but since I
was working in the pet store I was falling in love with every animal
and my parents thought if I got the degu then next it would be ferrets
and rabbits (we already had one that passed) and every other animal in
my department- so their flat out answer was no.
Well I never lost the novelty of my little buddy, and a week before my
birthday (being at the store for nine months with "D") my parents went to
the store on my day off and brought him home for me. Now I see him when
I wake up, on my break from the store and all night and I love him even
more!
I give him only the best food, toys and cage (the one house he's
sleeping in is actually a dog toy- but he adores it!). He warbles,
chirps and sings my ears off, he knows how to get my attention with one
loud "dee" and I know he wants a scratching. He loves to groom my
eyebrows and hair and my cats tails and loves when I put his mini
ladders leading out of his cage to my bed then the floor so he can run
around his little "Degu Theme Park" I have made him throughout my room.
For as much as I love my animals at home and at the store I have never
been as attached to one as I have with my little buddy Degu Daddy!
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