Hello I have 2 male degus that I rehomed form another house after being owned for 2 years. They have been rather happy for several weeks but I have noticed they are starting to chase eachother and make very loud squeaks and funny noises. They don't appear to be biting or stamping. Also one of...

I recently bought two degus. They were born around the week of March 17th. They are about 10 weeks old now. I have had them now for about two weeks and they are very comfortable with me, the both of them are. They come on me and my boyfriend all the time no problem. We go near the cage and...

Hi. We collected our 2 male degus yesterday after doing a lot of research, however i still have a couple of questions. 1. my degus are currently asleep (it's 3pm here), i am a little concerned as i heard degus were diurnal and should be awake during the day could any one give any information on...

Hi guys, I joined the forum as I've just bought my first mouse. Mister Winston Shiny-sides and I want to make his life as good as possible. Since most of you are very knowledgeable about rodents I thought I would ask your advice. I have had little Shiny-sides for two weeks now and he seems...

So, I've had my degus for a little over a year now and I've never heard them squeak quite as much as I have this morning. They're both male and from the same litter, and they've never been separated. Usually they're pretty quiet, the most noise they make is running around their cage. Sometimes...

Last night my rat Scooter was hesitant to move around much. I had him out to play and he just hid the whole time, except when I was giving out treats. Then he just randomly started squeaking like he was in pain. No one was even near him at the time. He did it a few times. Of course I got...

So my two Degus haven't really been acting strangely until today. When we got them, one of them was bigger, as in fatter, than the other, but we didn't really suspect pregnancy. Lately the one that's bigger has been been squeaking NON-STOP, and I don't know if this means she's having labor pains...