 Bill has been busily making a new and much larger cage for the ever burgeoning critters. It looks rather spiffy and will give them lots more room to climb around in. He's tried to come up with all the features I could possible need. Such as a door big enough for me to go through so I can have easy access to getting them for feeding and for cleaning purposes. Then, in order to get out of the cage without having a permanent fur collar attached to me, he's put in a chute, as you can see. The idea behind this is that if they follow me out of the cage, which they will, and I'm not fast enough to make it through the door before they do, which I won't be, then I can slide them down the chute quickly and safely and they can't get out and back on me.
I've relaxed on the weaning and they have felt me relaxing. They've not been as hard to feed. I've gotten lots of good ideas and tips on how to wean them. Now to start incorporating those tips into their routine. Pendleton in the meantime has bonded with Butterball, Amy and Todd's cat. Guess the bedtime story got to him. Looks like it might have gotten to both of them. (Picture courtesy of Todd Fox.)
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Here's the smaller cage they've been in. They learned climbing techniques while being housed here. And they learned to use a litter box, as you can see here when they were first investigating it at six weeks old. We decided to put the small cage inside the larger cage so they would have more to play around on and a higher level to be up on. Bill will probably make some shelf up higher for them to be on later. In the meantime, he has taken the large tree stump that was in the cat cage and affixed it inside the raccoon cage. They need it to perfect their climbing up tree skills. Whoops, they've spotted the camera.
