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Morning all, I was quite shocked to find this in Bluey's sandbath this morning. I initially thought it was a piece of forage, but no, an absolutely giant amount of poo in one go. It is completely dry (well now, anyway) - really looks and feels like a bit of leaf.
He had a fairly substantial enclosure clean on Thursday which was our first proper clean since we got him 8 weeks ago, but yesterday he was behaving quite normally - out and about begging for food as usual. We did have to remove approx 30-50% of his bedding (basically anything that smelled of pee, really) but I was careful to keep as much as possible. He only toileted in his two burrows and we deferred going into them for as long as possible to keep his stress levels down since he's a biter.
We had, however, sweetened the deal of the clean by putting a few stems of flax in (which had been frozen twice). He gorged himself silly on it - the desperation with which he threw himself at it was quite something so we had to take the rest of them away. He didn't eat too much - maybe 8 or 10 seeds?
Yesterday whilst out begging, we gave him a piece of baby sweetcorn - slightly bigger than his ear, I admit, but not as big as two ears. Could it be that the corn may have caused this? Or the clean - or a bit of both?
He's in his burrow now but he looked and behaved totally fine yesterday. Seeking a bit of advice and reassurance here.... its terrible timing as we're going away for a week tomorrow and the neighbours are popping in to feed and water him and most likely won't even see him much let alone be able to do anything further if there's a repeat of this mega poo....
Anyone seen anything like this before? Thanks so much for any advice.
He had a fairly substantial enclosure clean on Thursday which was our first proper clean since we got him 8 weeks ago, but yesterday he was behaving quite normally - out and about begging for food as usual. We did have to remove approx 30-50% of his bedding (basically anything that smelled of pee, really) but I was careful to keep as much as possible. He only toileted in his two burrows and we deferred going into them for as long as possible to keep his stress levels down since he's a biter.
We had, however, sweetened the deal of the clean by putting a few stems of flax in (which had been frozen twice). He gorged himself silly on it - the desperation with which he threw himself at it was quite something so we had to take the rest of them away. He didn't eat too much - maybe 8 or 10 seeds?
Yesterday whilst out begging, we gave him a piece of baby sweetcorn - slightly bigger than his ear, I admit, but not as big as two ears. Could it be that the corn may have caused this? Or the clean - or a bit of both?
He's in his burrow now but he looked and behaved totally fine yesterday. Seeking a bit of advice and reassurance here.... its terrible timing as we're going away for a week tomorrow and the neighbours are popping in to feed and water him and most likely won't even see him much let alone be able to do anything further if there's a repeat of this mega poo....
Hope hammy is all ok 
The things we have to do as pet owners lol