My little fellow Puck is a bit of a late bloomer, I guess; he kept the same hours until late November, when I started noticing he was going to sleep earlier each day and he started eating less than normal. I figure that means he wants to brumate, so I've been shortening his days gradually for the last couple weeks. I've read from several people that I should stop feeding him a week before he starts his nap to avoid bacterial infections. So I've been doing that for most of a week, but the poor guy already looks like a skin-and-bones poster child for UNICEF! How is he going to survive for a month without food when he's already so thin? I don't want to starve him to death in his sleep!
Seeing him so thin, it's hard to resist the urge to give him a mealworm or two.
Here he is posing for the camera -- pic is a couple days old but you can already see his ribcage on the far side.
Hope to see more pics of him, often 
