#Writing Wednesday - A Degu Days Duo Teaser - #KidLit #Pets

But then there are the degu round-up days.

We never know they’re coming until it’s too late.

The days start out like any other day, then we suddenly find it happening.

You’d think we’d be used to it by now, but we aren’t. It was scary the first time, and it’s been scary every time since then.

Here’s how it usually happens…

We’ll be playing, nibbling from our food bowls, or maybe even napping, then all of a sudden our cage starts to move, rolling on its wheels out of the spot it usually stands in, pushed by one of our human caretakers. When it finally comes to a stop the human caretaker starts grabbing us one by one and handing us to our other human caretaker.

One by one we’re snatched from the cage and put in a giant version of our sand bath, only this sand bath is strange because it has no sand in it at all. What’s the point of a bath with no sand in it? Sounds stupid to me! But, anyway, we’re abandoned there by the human caretakers. We try to climb the sides to get out, but they’re just too slippery and high.

There’s no escape, and we can’t even see out properly!

Then one of the human caretakers is there again, talking to us and trying to tell us everything’s alright. But we don’t believe her; can’t accept it. We’re so frightened and try desperately to escape so we can find our way back to our cage; back to safety!

~Above taken from "The Great Degu Round-Up" by Victoria Zigler.

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Book 1 - The Great Degu Round-Up
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Book 2 - A Very Degu Christmas
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