Hi!
Starting tomorrow, we're going to be moving back into our winter residence, the unimaginably small and crammed apartment, until next summer roams around. As such, i need pointers to safely move with my royal pair without them flicking eachother off. I do have a travel carrier, a size 2 gulliver crate, they fit in there, enough to be uncomfortably close in cuddles. It wouldn't be a ride longer than 7 min anyway, and they's be the last to move. Besides, mum broke the larger one and i don't want to spend 30€ getting it again when the medium one works acceptably well.
Now Storm has been in the apartment before, from last season, and his area there hasn't changed. We cannot expand it in any direction or we wouldn't be able to access any of the limited storage spaces. It is ridiculously small when compared to the enclosure he shares with his queen (not even a fourth of its size). Last i remembered, he is able to make three-four hops and then one into the toilet, and only 2 the other way. I cannot imagine him nicely fitting there with Iris, but considering that the whole apartment's free floor space is only about three condos' worth of space, well.... Things aren't looking great. I could try partial freeroam with those two, but my bed, the couch, any shelves under a meter in height, and the tiny bits of wallpaper in most obscure corners that he's bent on destroying makes freeroaming hard. We also cannot have a random fence splitting the room in half. The dude will just jump 80cm out of curiousity to see what's on the tv table, and i value my sleep, wouldn't want him nipping my sleeping face. Also, pee puddles in between bed and curtain are the worst occurrences yet.
So, these two will have to survive being forced into extreme close proximity for a long while. It will be an eyesore for me to see them smushed up in that miserably small space but i don't want to rush with letting them roam and get into a territory dispute.
Is there any way i can increase the chances of them not getting territorial with the space and unbonding?
When would be optimal to let them out into the main room to get some more space?
Does anyone have tips on how to make my bed Storm-proof? Or at least silenter? Now i won't mind the digging and all, i'll just snooze under a double duvet, but parents claim that they're unable to sleep bc of it.
How do i prevent him from getting on the shelves and knocking everything down? We cannot exactly throw out the other couchbed for that, and those particular shelves are doorless...
Starting tomorrow, we're going to be moving back into our winter residence, the unimaginably small and crammed apartment, until next summer roams around. As such, i need pointers to safely move with my royal pair without them flicking eachother off. I do have a travel carrier, a size 2 gulliver crate, they fit in there, enough to be uncomfortably close in cuddles. It wouldn't be a ride longer than 7 min anyway, and they's be the last to move. Besides, mum broke the larger one and i don't want to spend 30€ getting it again when the medium one works acceptably well.
Now Storm has been in the apartment before, from last season, and his area there hasn't changed. We cannot expand it in any direction or we wouldn't be able to access any of the limited storage spaces. It is ridiculously small when compared to the enclosure he shares with his queen (not even a fourth of its size). Last i remembered, he is able to make three-four hops and then one into the toilet, and only 2 the other way. I cannot imagine him nicely fitting there with Iris, but considering that the whole apartment's free floor space is only about three condos' worth of space, well.... Things aren't looking great. I could try partial freeroam with those two, but my bed, the couch, any shelves under a meter in height, and the tiny bits of wallpaper in most obscure corners that he's bent on destroying makes freeroaming hard. We also cannot have a random fence splitting the room in half. The dude will just jump 80cm out of curiousity to see what's on the tv table, and i value my sleep, wouldn't want him nipping my sleeping face. Also, pee puddles in between bed and curtain are the worst occurrences yet.
So, these two will have to survive being forced into extreme close proximity for a long while. It will be an eyesore for me to see them smushed up in that miserably small space but i don't want to rush with letting them roam and get into a territory dispute.
Is there any way i can increase the chances of them not getting territorial with the space and unbonding?
When would be optimal to let them out into the main room to get some more space?
Does anyone have tips on how to make my bed Storm-proof? Or at least silenter? Now i won't mind the digging and all, i'll just snooze under a double duvet, but parents claim that they're unable to sleep bc of it.
How do i prevent him from getting on the shelves and knocking everything down? We cannot exactly throw out the other couchbed for that, and those particular shelves are doorless...