Posted by Joan on August 14, 2000 at 02:30:01:
In Reply to: Do animals, in you experience, become more tame if left to posted by free roam?np Swintah on August 13, 2000 at 12:06:53:
My ig, Sneakers, seems to get more harder to handle the bigger the space that he has to roam. However, he is not a free-roamer. Everynite he is let out of his cage for family time. If I'm working on the computer he comes in the bedroom with me. He is easy to handle and catch in the confines of one room. He even voluntarily will jump on our shoulder and say hi. When it is time to go to bed I can just walk up to him and pick him up.
If we are going to be spending time in the living room he comes out there. He definity gets more exercise in the livingroom and a joining rooms but with the larger amount of space he definitely feels free. Other than wanting to be in the same room with us or making sure he can at least see us, he has never climbed on us. That is not to say hi, he has used us as a means to an end. We usually have to wait until he falls asleep on the curtain rod to get him.
This just may be that he doesn't feel as secure in the larger area because he isn't a free roamer and not used to it on a constant basis.
Joan (observations from a lowly hand servant)