Washi and Kioko think I'm the Treat Lady. As soon as I come into the room, they're running over and hanging on the side of the cage. If I get up from the chair, the same thing. Any time I'm vertical, they come to see what I'm up to. I don't always have a treat, but they still come to see what's going on. Washi is really getting tamer! The last few days he's come onto my arm when I open the cage, he'll stay there for just a second or two but that's a big step. This morning I had a mango-peach puff in my left hand, he was on my right arm; when I gave him the treat he stayed there to eat it, and to get another one. Kioko won't come that close; he still likes to have wire in between us. But he gets just as many treats as Washi. I don't think he'll ever be a cuddler.
Bathroom time this morning, first Shikoni. He was in his pouch, so I took the whole thing in. He came out pretty slowly, got onto my right arm and sniffed all around; smelling Washi no doubt. He was very interested! After a few minutes he got to playing: down on the floor, climb up the towels, back onto my hand, running all over me, onto the window, back to the door -- just really having a good time. At one point he jumped from my knee onto the chair rail on top of the wainscoting; he scurried along that with his right feet, the left feet just providing stabilization I guess. I got a pic of him climbing onto the towel on the wall rack. From there a leap to the door towels again, back and forth. He's quite the little athlete! I had put his pouch in the sink; he went to it from my shoulder, that was the end.
After picking up all the little poops and getting a fresh cup of coffee, it was Washi and Kioko. I've been thinking the light bothers Kioko, so I got the 6-volt lantern and set it on the edge of the sink, and turned off the overhead light. Sure enough, it wasn't a full minute till both boys were out. I'd brought in a dish of strawberry yogurt, and put it on the floor. Well, Kioko went down my leg and under the sink (which has no glider escape holes, I checked before I ever took anyone in there); I turned on the overhead light again so I could see. Washi never left me, he stayed on my back most of the time. Kioko went exploring, but didn't try to climb up the towel the way Shikoni does. He stretched up and looked at it though, so it's probably just a matter of time. He found the yogurt, I got a pic of that; and I managed to get Washi off my shoulder by practically laying down on the floor. When he saw Kioko at the bowl, he had to go check it out himself. I did get one nice clear picture of them both at the bowl. I wanted it to show the difference in their sizes, but I don't think it worked; the angle was wrong. Our bathroom is long and narrow, so I couldn't get to the right spot.
The other night I fixed scrambled egg; to make it a little different, I put some plain yogurt in it. Shikoni didn't even taste it! The brothers of course ate it all up. There's nothing they won't eat, I have to be really careful about what I put in with them.
Today is the day I bring them all together into one room. I'm interested in how all three are going to behave. I'm pretty sure Washi and Shikoni will do just fine, they're both pretty friendly; Kioko is the one I'm mainly worried about, he's more aggressive. I expect a lot of noise, barking and other sounds. We'll see how they do over the next week, as I bring them closer together. I plan to have the cages pretty much side-by-side in a week or ten days, depending on how everyone acts; then leave them like that for another week. So it'll be sometime in the first half of January when I do personal introductions.
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