Well poor Saoirse has had quite the week. She has been eating successfully for us which is wonderful! However the poor dear went into shed and it was a total disaster no matter how high we pushed her humidity it just would NOT budge.

We've had to soak her three times to get it off and there is still small remnants that we will likely have to deal with but we are giving her a break from the stress of the soaking. It appears that in some areas of her body there was more than one layer of shed coming off. Having never seen this before I'm not completely sure but it seems a lot of shed, almost layers of it or quite "thick" on certain parts of her body.

We did not offer her feed this week as she was so stressed from all this messing with her and still heavily in shed on feeding night.

But on the good side, despite all this mess and stress, I had her in my hands last night as Mike cleaned up her cage and she for the first time did NOT ball up or attempt to flee. She actually stayed nicely in my hands and looked around, tongue flicking and acting fairly "normal". It only lasted perhaps 2 minutes until we tucked her back inside her home but it was a sweet time and I'll admit I got teary (silly I know).

Hopefully her next shed will be so much easier on her and on us.


~~Jo~~