My Savannah's cage is in my office/study. Also in that room are my mice (which Ive had to put up a curtin or she'll watch them constantly) and my cat spends alot of time in there as well.
Friday, when I brought home my young blackthroat, we set his enclosure up in the diningroom on the bar counter. He seems to not be having alot of stress, and only buries himself at night.
Since we brought blackthroat home, it seemed coincidentally, the Savannah's behavior changed slightly, she resumed hissing when we walked near her cage, which she had stopped doing and the first couple of days she spent much time under her hide, which she rarely does as well.
Last night, I was walking around the house with the blackthroat on my shoulder climbing up and down my back-he thinks Im a warm tree, jumps on my wrist if I put my arm in his cage. Because my kids were running in and out of the main room I walked with him into the office, not really thinking anything of it. My blackthroats behavior instantly changed to climbing down, whipping, huffing, and defecating.
I can only assume he smelled the Savannah who was in her enclosure across the room and was frightened. He calmed down when I lifted him and went back into the other room.
Does this mean that it would not be agood idea to ever put their enclosures in the same room, or is it likely just because the scent is new?
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