00:00 They are quirky, they are funny, they have their own personality.
00:07 You get the really huffy, grumpy ones which I fall for straight away because I want to bring them out of it.
00:17 I want to help them.
00:19 And then you get the friendly ones that run all over you.
00:22 They're like hamsters with spikes, some of them.
00:24 We currently have Rossy who is a baby, he's about 15 months.
00:31 And we have Neve who I've had about 2 and a half years, I've had her since she was little.
00:38 And I adopted those two.
00:40 And then I've got Mikey who's a permanent foster with happy quills.
00:44 Unfortunately he's too old to be adopted out.
00:48 So the earliest you see them out is probably about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening.
00:54 And then others don't even come out until about 3 or 4.
00:58 Mine tend to wait until we've gone to bed and then come out so that I don't bother them.
01:04 They love running around in the living rooms.
01:06 We let them run in the living room, they run in the run.
01:10 And then out the castle that we've put in there.
01:13 The little houses out of Doll's houses, Huffypop's housing, they painted and built some of the other ones.
01:21 And they have their own wheels.
01:25 We've made them two levels because they do need areas to run.
01:29 We've found that one level's great when they're old, but when they're young they like to run around.
01:36 And they do some really quirky things as well, like the toys.
01:40 We had Dennis, so unfortunately we've lost him recently.
01:43 But he likes a little mint cat stick that I got him.
01:47 He'd pick it up and shake it like a dog rags a rag.
01:52 So yeah, he'd pick it up and shake it.
01:54 And Mikey likes to take his toys to bed.
01:57 He lifts them up and carries them upstairs. I find them upstairs.
02:01 They're African pygmies so they need constant heat.
02:04 And that means even if I bring them out here, I have to have them in a hot blanket or a hot microwave pad.
02:13 How common are they at the Keepers Pets in this country?
02:17 At the moment they're getting more and more common, especially in the Somerset South area.
02:23 There's quite a number of people that are...
02:26 We've got currently many, many members on the Happy Quills site now that are keen to adopt and foster them.
02:34 And some of them are sponsored. The permanent ones get sponsored.
02:38 So yeah, we've got quite a lot of members at the minute and they all want to join in.
02:43 They all want to do it.
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