The Degu Diaries

"Green Tea & Sunflower" available as cards and prints from Redbubble There's not an awful lot of things out there for the degu owner. I'm talking greeting cards, prints, and other goodies we can treasure. As you know, I'm in the middle of creating a calendar but I've already got some degu greeting cards, postcards and prints available of images that will feature in the calendar.

This afternoon I attempted the photoshoot for October of my degu calendar. They say "Never work with children or animals" and I can honestly say that they are right! Out of 50 photos only around 5 are decent. I had wanted a photo of all 3 degus sitting huddled together between the squashes but I could only get them to sit still with millet. What's the problem with that? Well, they won't sit within a foot of each other when they're eating it!

I'm in the process of making a degu calendar which I'll be selling via Redbubble . I have 5 of the 12 photos ready but still need to take decent photographs for the rest. I had a brainwave this morning with the idea to make the photographs for December, July, and October seasonal.

When I used to keep rats, my last set of 6 boys had a hammock for sleeping in. They loved it but I was forever stitching the hanging straps back on, or replacing the fabric. It quickly went from being a lovely bright shop bought item to a Frankenstein's monster of a hammock made from the leg of a pair of old jeans! Rodents chew, a lot, so I'd dismissed the idea of buying my degus one… until last week.