wildchild91
Young Bun
So its week one of bonding Mollie & Wellington.
Wellington came home on friday, I put him straight in his hutch and left him to settle...Mollie seemed very confused and at the sight of the dreaded cat carrier, shot back under her hutch and refused to come out...so thats how I left them...
A few hours later I came back out and Wellington seemed quite settled, and Mollie was looking very curiously at him so i decided to open her run so she had access to go up to his hutch...She went under, around, under again and then hopped up to the mesh, sat up on her backlegs and sniffed him through the bars for a few minutes, Wellington sat and sniffed her back and it all looked very positive.
Since then, Mollies decided that shes not actually in the mood to give him an easy ride, and after luring him up to her hutch with pleading looks and friendly head bobbing, she waited while he stuck his nose up before growling and trying to bite & box him...Shes repeated this stunt several times, and bless him, Welly just stood there and looked at her like...oh, what did I do? :shock:
I decided to put that to the back of my mind, seeing as how it was with Mollie in her hutch and with Welly loose, She doesnt like being confined anyway and I thought she probably didnt like thinking she was trapped and couldnt get away from him...however when they're both out in the runs alongside each other, she just follows him up and down wherever he goes, with her nose glued to the bars...she does just seem curious, but as soon as he mimicks her and noses back, she'll sniff him for a second or two, before her tail comes up and pulls a face at him...he seems to hop away the split second her tail goes up, and last night he even made a tactical retreat back to his own hutch and just sat there looking very sorry...
I know its early days yet, but has anyone got any tips for a difficult bond? Or anyone with stories of a bond that started out a bit iffy and then worked out in the end?
Wellington came home on friday, I put him straight in his hutch and left him to settle...Mollie seemed very confused and at the sight of the dreaded cat carrier, shot back under her hutch and refused to come out...so thats how I left them...
A few hours later I came back out and Wellington seemed quite settled, and Mollie was looking very curiously at him so i decided to open her run so she had access to go up to his hutch...She went under, around, under again and then hopped up to the mesh, sat up on her backlegs and sniffed him through the bars for a few minutes, Wellington sat and sniffed her back and it all looked very positive.
Since then, Mollies decided that shes not actually in the mood to give him an easy ride, and after luring him up to her hutch with pleading looks and friendly head bobbing, she waited while he stuck his nose up before growling and trying to bite & box him...Shes repeated this stunt several times, and bless him, Welly just stood there and looked at her like...oh, what did I do? :shock:
I decided to put that to the back of my mind, seeing as how it was with Mollie in her hutch and with Welly loose, She doesnt like being confined anyway and I thought she probably didnt like thinking she was trapped and couldnt get away from him...however when they're both out in the runs alongside each other, she just follows him up and down wherever he goes, with her nose glued to the bars...she does just seem curious, but as soon as he mimicks her and noses back, she'll sniff him for a second or two, before her tail comes up and pulls a face at him...he seems to hop away the split second her tail goes up, and last night he even made a tactical retreat back to his own hutch and just sat there looking very sorry...
I know its early days yet, but has anyone got any tips for a difficult bond? Or anyone with stories of a bond that started out a bit iffy and then worked out in the end?