Dear Molly and Junior

Can you please explain to me why, come tea time, you will not eat the hay that has been in your hay wheel since the morning and yet it's perfectly acceptable to eat a bit that you've found in the floor, that I dropped the very same morning???

Is it more appetising having sat on your bedroom carpet all day? Has it been calling out to you from outside the pen all day to be eaten?

Please explain yourselves for I cannot fathom it out...

I often ponder the very same issues with my pair.

They boggle my brain sometimes!  

Confusing us is a game to them....they do these things then have a laugh at our reaction !

Dougal always picks stray bits up like this off the carpet and he even tries to pull hay that has gotten stuck under something , just to have that special piece. It boggles the mind    .

Dont worry mine dont want their hay till im throwing it away! they raid the bin bags while im trying to clean them out   

Yeah, sounds familiar. The grass/hay is greener on the other side. Boggled!   

Amelia66 wrote:Dont worry mine dont want their hay till im throwing it away! they raid the bin bags while im trying to clean them out   

They do similar! There's nothing more interesting than yesterday's dirty litter tray that is waiting to be cleaned!!

Makes me wonder why I bother cleaning them at all

Saying that, Junior does this some days...

I go in with a clean tray every morning.
I take the dirty one out of the pen and put it on the floor.
While I'm putting the fresh one in and fresh hay in the hay wheel, he will scoot over to the dirty tray and have one last pee in it before I take it away.

So he obviously likes to try and keep them clean.

Such odd little creatures

Now we are talking. My norty pair waits until the tray is emptied and the cleaning solution applied, than they nip in for a pee before I get a chance to refill the fresh litter   

c.bolduan wrote:Yeah, sounds familiar. The grass/hay is greener on the other side. Boggled!   

Oh, yes!

Thumper2001 wrote:

Amelia66 wrote:Dont worry mine dont want their hay till im throwing it away! they raid the bin bags while im trying to clean them out   

They do similar! There's nothing more interesting than yesterday's dirty litter tray that is waiting to be cleaned!!

Makes me wonder why I bother cleaning them at all

It's because the hay is not interesting in the tray so you have to clean them. You could leave it there for weeks and it would not be eaten but the moment it is in the bag it is appetising. I have tried aggitating the hay and putting back in the rack but it just does not become edible until it is in the bin bag.

Ha ha this is so true. When I clean Holly's box out in the morning if she is able to get to it she will head for the bag with the old hay in it. It seems to be the choice of all of them; little muckworms LOL!!

Hugs
JO xx