Oh look, it’s Jack. He tries to get in the bin every time I clean out the cage. Sorry if you forgot about some food you buried, it’s rubbish now.

Fun fact: although you only ever see the front four teeth degus actually have 20 teeth, and they grow at a rate of around 1cm per month! Healthy teeth should be orange, white teeth show a lack of minerals.

A few months ago Thomas knocked out his two front teeth at the top, I think due to a sharp impact. I took Thomas to the vet who confirmed that he hadn’t lost them due to illness and that both the roots were still there even though there was no visible tooth left on one side.

Thomas easily managed to figure out how to eat while his teeth grew back and a week and a half later you couldn’t tell they were ever missing.

Sam purred! ^-^

I was holding Sam in one hand and stroking him with the other and he started vibrating. There wasn’t anything audible, but I think it was purring. He seemed happy; his ears weren’t back and he wasn’t wriggling around so it wasn’t the defensive shaking they sometimes do at each other. Has anyone else come as across purring rodents?