Blackie, who I sometimes refer to as the candy striper cuz he loves sweets and has a distinct stripe running down his back, has definitely warmed up to me more than Brownie. All Brownie really likes to do is run around loose in the living room and abuse his freedom by not going home when I tell him to. He only goes home when he feels like it. All my candy striper really wants to do is stay home and eat, though he does shyly come up to me for attention at times. They both still don’t want to be handled.

When Brownie’s out when Tom’s at his computer, he goes up and tugs on his toe occasionally. He does the same thing when he’s lounging on the futon. Now that he’s climbing on that, I don’t let him out when Tom’s sleeping. He used to only run along the wall his cage is on, but now he’s infatuated with the opposite wall. I dragged the cage into the bedroom so he could run around in there, but instead, they just stayed home, played tackle, and stunk up the room. There’s no air cleaner in there.