Taking a Break on Play Time

We had some time in the tent twice more this week. CB and Foehn had generally a great time in the tent, but unlike the first time, it was a real chore getting them back into their cage. The first time we did this they both went back to their pouch after seemingly wearing themselves out. Not so the last two times. On Monday we hoped to wind things up by around 10:30 p.m., but it was 11:30 before I finally got them settled. We had to resort to getting them out one at a time. At one point they slowed down and wandered into their pouch, but never at the same time. After about 15 minutes they got their second wind, and that was that. It was another 45 minutes before we got them rounded up. Last night was a similar scenario. They were having a great time, especially since there was a wheel in the tent. CB spent a lot of his time running in the wheel, and eventually Foehn got interested as well. CB was not stopping, and Foehn would get her nose repeatedly bumped as she tried to get into the wheel while it was turning. They also did not seem interested in slowing down at all. We finally removed the wheel from the tent, both to get them to wind down and also because I didn't like the way Foehn was getting her nose whacked by the wheel (although she didn't seem to mind so much). Rounding them up was a chore, because they are still skittish around us at times, and won't allow us to just pick them up. I scooped Foehn with a blanket as she was crawling across the top of the tent and got her into the pouch. She didn't fuss or crab at all, but her brother was a different story. I took Foehn back to the cage, and then came back for CB. He was not cooperative at all, and after one unsuccessful attempt at scooping him up I decided to try and coax him into the pouch. Twenty minutes later he crawled in, and I held the top of the pouch closed and picked it up. He was crabbing up a storm, which is unlike him but I think he was both not happy about being chased and not happy about ending tent time. Once he was back in the cage everything was fine. I did some checking and found that this "roundup" problem is not unusual, but we have decided to try and work on bonding without playtime for several days. That will lessen the stress on them, and on us.