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Tale: Ceres' Critique of a Rearranged Cage
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Tale: Rearrangement
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November 9, 2004

When I get new things or sometimes just because, I will rearrange the cage. Now, Ceres loves her bucket. LOVES that little aqua bucket. She's had it sitting on the middle floor for many months now, and when I rearranged the cage Nov 04, I moved it up and hung it near the top of the cage.

When I put the girls in... Ceres wasn't happy when the bucket wasn't where she left it. She paniced and raced up and down the cage looking for her dear bucket, never noticing it hanging up in the hammock area... she tried to crawl into the new food crock I'd installed, as if her bucket had just been shrunk!

I picked her up and placed her in her bucket, and she calmed down once she realized where she was. She was, however, very upset that her bucket wasn't on the floor anymore... even though she'd slept in it 3 months ago when it was hanging up there!

So I took pity on her and moved her bucket down. How her mood improved...

Anyway, on to Ceres' half of the story...

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Mumma gave me my bucket back...

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Without it, I was going NUTS! Turned into some kind of maniacal beast!

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Mom caught me howling at the moon... when I came too, I realized the moon was actually the hall light... ^_^;

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I sulked around glaring for a while, then started looking for a replacement... sniff...

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Unfortunately, nothing can compare. I don't know HOW Kaly manages to fit on this hammock... this just won't do...

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And so the search expanded...

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And I searched EVERYWHERE. I even enlisted Kaly's help...

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...but she got sidetracked by the new teddy bear...

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Kaly gone, I had to resort to pleading. What RatMom can resist these eyes, these ears?

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Why, no RatMom can. As you can see, she moved my bucket down to the middle floor. Now the only problem anymore is that my bucket's blocking the upstairs door, so now Kaly and I have to go downstairs to gather at the door and wash ourselves as we wait for Mom to stop taking pictures and LET US OUT!

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I kinda like these basket ledges now... now that I have my bucket back downstairs where it belongs! I had to shun them before, of course, on principle.

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Kaly likes it up here too, but she stole all of the comfy rags Mom put up here to stash in her nestball. I wanted those for my bucket!!

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Mom shared her tea with us and all was forgiven... ^_^