Kristal
01-30-2011, 03:16 PM
I was just reading Crazysquirrels thread, and I remembered that I think I saw Nibbler masturbating a week or two ago.
I went in the little room at night, and he was sitting up on the cat tree and avidly licking his penis. I thought nothing of it until he jumped onto the cage wire to greet me. He was hanging off of the inside like they do, so I got a full view, and his penis was HUGE - swollen to perhaps 6 times normal sized, redder than a beet and covered in very sticky goo that looked like something between pus and skin coming off after a terrible sunburn.
I was HORRIFIED. I thought surely he had some hideous infection, at first, but then I wondered if he was masturbating. Incidentally, 'squirrel penis' yields quite a lot of funny google image search results, but none of them are useful :p He has looked fine since then, so that is my current hypothesis... That and that the sticky goo is that waxy plug that I read about on this board.
But I was just wondering: has anyone else has seen the same thing in their squirrels?
I went in the little room at night, and he was sitting up on the cat tree and avidly licking his penis. I thought nothing of it until he jumped onto the cage wire to greet me. He was hanging off of the inside like they do, so I got a full view, and his penis was HUGE - swollen to perhaps 6 times normal sized, redder than a beet and covered in very sticky goo that looked like something between pus and skin coming off after a terrible sunburn.
I was HORRIFIED. I thought surely he had some hideous infection, at first, but then I wondered if he was masturbating. Incidentally, 'squirrel penis' yields quite a lot of funny google image search results, but none of them are useful :p He has looked fine since then, so that is my current hypothesis... That and that the sticky goo is that waxy plug that I read about on this board.
But I was just wondering: has anyone else has seen the same thing in their squirrels?