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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibnhamar" data-source="post: 221217" data-attributes="member: 39497">Oh my gosh. What a saga, that video... glad your dog and T are both okay, jeeze. I'm sure accidentally ingesting some hairs could've ended up horribly.Thanks for the advice everyone, I'll definitely keep all of this in mind. My G. Iheringi has a *significant* bald spot similar to raphael's T in the video post - one attempt to rehouse that went poorly, my T kept throwing up threat poses at my catch cup/makeup brush until I gave up after a few gentle nudges, but I didn't see him kick hairs during that process, I'm nearly certain. Later that night, I gave it another try, and my T went this time pretty much without issue. Then, a few days later now is when I noticed the spot. I swear I didn't see *anything* of the sort during, so maybe my T must have done it after the fact, or maybe after the first attempt and I didn't notice the bald spot at the time. Not sure.An additional question if anyone sees this - my G. Iheringi wasn't in the first enclosure long, maybe a week or two. I intend to replace/wash everything anyways, but theoretically, could someone go ahead and house in the same old enclosure, or would potentially another Ts hairs be able to harm another T? I assume not, and I'm sure there's good general reason to clean it out between Ts regardless, but just curious, don't think I've seen mention of this, either. It was just a temporary housing at the time, as I didn't have a bigger backup enclosure ready at the time, the T arrived about a full half an inch or longer than it was listed.Thanks again everyone for the advice!</blockquote>

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