#FurkidFriday: Joshua The #Degu Gets Comforted (FD)

Hi everyone. This is Joshua the degu.

The other day I suddenly started to miss my brothers again and feel lonely. I get like that sometimes. I can't help it. Ever since my brothers went to that rainbow bridge place I get sad sometimes. Mostly I'm happy by myself, but sometimes... Especially on nights when it's stormy, and there's nobody to cuddle up to for comfort... I just really miss them, and then I get upset and lonely.

This particular night it was very stormy, and I got upset enough that I was squealing in the middle of the night, and woke up the human caretakers with my squealing. I didn't mean to, but I was sad and lonely, and I just couldn't help it.

The Daddy human came to check on me, but other than being upset there was nothing wrong, and I just ignored him and kept on squealing, so he went away after a while.

But then the Mummy human came, and it was her I wanted, so I stopped squealing and cuddled her hand when she put it in my cage. Her hands are usually nice and warm, and cuddling up to them makes me feel good. It's not as good as having my brothers back... She's not furry, for a start... But it helps. I felt better after that, and felt even better still after she gave me a special nibble, because nibbles make everything better - especially Shreddies.

Then she made sure the TV box had something I liked on it. She couldn't find NCIS - which me and my Chinchilla sisters love - but she found CSI, which is almost as good. So I settled down with my nibble to watch it, able to forget about the storm once I'd been comforted, and she went away. I think she went back to bed. I don't mind though, because I didn't want to be cuddled and petted any more anyhow, since I was feeling better by that point.

I'm glad she came to me when I needed her to though. It made me feel loads better. Oh, and the Shreddie helped too.

Squeak soon,
Joshua