drunkninja
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I have 2 young females (about 6 weeks old now) that I have been working with for about 2 weeks now. It seems the only times they ever come out when I'm around is when I coax them with food just outside of wherever they are hiding in their cage. One will sometimes come all the way up to my shoulder, and the other tends to come just enough to where her whole body is out of her hiding spot. I've handled them daily ever since I got them, but they are still extremely fearful anytime I make a movement near their cage (usually when I get up from the couch next to the cage) or put my hand in. I'll pick them up, but they usually struggle to get out of my hand and try to run back to their cage for a while. I can place them on the couch and they'll calm down after a while, but the second I pick them up, they go into panic mode again. Is there anything I can do to get them to understand being picked up and touched isn't so horrible?