My chinchilla understands why it's called the playbook!
I have a chinchilla at my office that is nocturnal and wakes up at 11:30 PM every nite thinking its morning and wants to play. He loves to run around out in the hallway.
Sometimes I have too much work to finish up and I have to try to make him understand we can't play tonite and feel guilty as he peers out at me behind my desktop :( by the time I do get done, I am just to tired to play.
That was then.
Now I take my work out in the hallway, lie down leaning against the wall and study documents or tutorials let him jump all over me and dart down the hall - come back run up on my shoulder, tickle my ear with his whiskers then dart off down the hall again.
All the while, getting paid by the hour. Then if I have enough energy left, we turn off the lights and play hide and seek - he loves that :)
Life is good, for both of us. All because of playbook :)
Playbook equals happy animals! Because they love to play while I work!
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