Lady Squirrelly
05-25-2009, 10:12 PM
Last night Bruiser was out playing. I went to the kitchen to empty the dishwasher. He followed me.
He ran up my left leg and up onto my left shoulder. He leaned out looking at the top of the cabinets.
With visions of my collection of antique biscuit jars being knocked to the floor as he romped across the top of the cabinets, I turned to leave the kitchen and return him to the great room.
Just as I did, he went across my back to the other shoulder. When I went through the doorway he got tangled up in the fly strip hanging there. (Have had a moth problem lately)
He flapped and jumped down. He went tearing throught the room from couch to cage to cage and back again. He ran over and under everything in there several times.
It would have been hysterically funny if he had not been so frightened. He was crying and chucking with the sticky strip glued tightly in his fur with the container end bouncing on everything and rattling like a skeleton chasing him.
He would not let me near him. It took almost 15 minutes for him to settle down enough for me to get close enough to grab the end of the strip. I knew there was no chance of touching him, so I just got the container and held on as he ran again.
There was a good amount of tail hair stuck to the strip. I was so afraid he would stress out but he finally went into his cage. After about an hour, he let me reach in his hanging cube and rub him.
He whined like a little baby and hid his head in my cupped hand. He did not want to come out this morning but I finally got him to come out this evening.
He is missing about 2 1/2" of hair on one side of his tail. There is no blood just bare kind of pink skin. It looks like it might still be a little sore. I guess so with that much hair being ripped out.
Will this grow back??
He is still very guarded with me. How long do you think it will take him to forgive me??
:osnap
He ran up my left leg and up onto my left shoulder. He leaned out looking at the top of the cabinets.
With visions of my collection of antique biscuit jars being knocked to the floor as he romped across the top of the cabinets, I turned to leave the kitchen and return him to the great room.
Just as I did, he went across my back to the other shoulder. When I went through the doorway he got tangled up in the fly strip hanging there. (Have had a moth problem lately)
He flapped and jumped down. He went tearing throught the room from couch to cage to cage and back again. He ran over and under everything in there several times.
It would have been hysterically funny if he had not been so frightened. He was crying and chucking with the sticky strip glued tightly in his fur with the container end bouncing on everything and rattling like a skeleton chasing him.
He would not let me near him. It took almost 15 minutes for him to settle down enough for me to get close enough to grab the end of the strip. I knew there was no chance of touching him, so I just got the container and held on as he ran again.
There was a good amount of tail hair stuck to the strip. I was so afraid he would stress out but he finally went into his cage. After about an hour, he let me reach in his hanging cube and rub him.
He whined like a little baby and hid his head in my cupped hand. He did not want to come out this morning but I finally got him to come out this evening.
He is missing about 2 1/2" of hair on one side of his tail. There is no blood just bare kind of pink skin. It looks like it might still be a little sore. I guess so with that much hair being ripped out.
Will this grow back??
He is still very guarded with me. How long do you think it will take him to forgive me??
:osnap