We lost our Gary today. While we don’t know his exact age he was 14-18 months old which just seems so young! We got him on his own last February and a few weeks later got him 2 friends. All was good though the 3 of them did scuffle for dominance now and then. A few months ago we noticed it start to get bad. Following the advice we saw we separated them for a day or 2 and re integrated them. Things would be fine but in a few hours four would fly again. It came to a head when Gary was bugging Eddie and Eddie turned and took a bite out of Gary’s ear we noticed a couple of small cuts on his body at that time. (We monitored the ear and cuts but they healed normally. We decided that it was time to separate them for everyone’s good. We temporarily housed Gary for a few weeks in a pet store cage until we could get his own C&C set up. That happened last month. We left frank and Eddie together in the bigger C&C but made sure they all had ample room and lots of hay, greens, treats and water. Their cages were set up next to each other so they could still communicate. Another tip we picked up online. Everything seemed good and a week or 2 ago we noticed Gary was spending lots of time in his new soft tunnel. We thought he loved it now I question if he was ill? I don’t know... last night before bed he was just kind of staring off in the distance so I picked him up to check on him. He didn’t scatter but did eat out a yell. Once I had him up he seemed himself so we thought nothing off it
then we fed them all in the morning and they all seemed good.
Then.... he was dead. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him on his side which isn’t like him. I went in and called his name he didn’t move. I picked him up and he was cold.
Did separating him kill him? We tried to give him everything he needed but he just couldn’t get on with frank and Eddie. we are devastated that his life was so short and are at a loss to understand why
then we fed them all in the morning and they all seemed good.
Then.... he was dead. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him on his side which isn’t like him. I went in and called his name he didn’t move. I picked him up and he was cold.
Did separating him kill him? We tried to give him everything he needed but he just couldn’t get on with frank and Eddie. we are devastated that his life was so short and are at a loss to understand why