roxyroller88
Mama Doe
This is going to be a bit of an essay so here we go...
So everything has been great with Bea and Hen, they are free range now and they spend the majority of their time cuddling in our front room, away from us. To be honest we rarely see them except for at feeding time and Bea does run in for a quick cuddle every now and again but she soon goes running back to her man. Cuties!
Anyway, Henry is still very people shy. He will come running over to us when we have food and he seems pretty happy but he is still quite nervous of us. We are happy to just let him figure it out in his own time but we have been noticing some slightly worrying signs over the last few weeks.
About 2 weeks ago I managed to get a rare stroking session in with Henry and as soon as Bea noticed she came running over and very quickly positioned herself between us with her nose touching my forearm, I took the hint and stroked them both at the same time. I thought that she was being a bit of a diva but I didn't think much of it until last night.
Dan got home from work at about 4:30am and we sat and had a chat before going to bed. Henry started to venture into our room (which is something that he never does without Bea) and then before we knew it, Bea came chasing after him, postitioned herself to the side of him and proceeded to put her chin down on his neck. He then did a u-turn and returned to the front room where they spend all of their time.
It was almost like she was telling him that he wasn't allowed to come in and see us. Is that possible?! She stayed in our room with us, jumped on the sofa to say hello and then returned to Henry. Could it be that she is being possessive over us? I know that it sounds weird but the behaviour was odd and we both noticed it :/ Looking back we both think that there has been other signs of it too but we put it down to him being shy.
If so, Poor Hen
And what can we do to fix it?
So everything has been great with Bea and Hen, they are free range now and they spend the majority of their time cuddling in our front room, away from us. To be honest we rarely see them except for at feeding time and Bea does run in for a quick cuddle every now and again but she soon goes running back to her man. Cuties!
Anyway, Henry is still very people shy. He will come running over to us when we have food and he seems pretty happy but he is still quite nervous of us. We are happy to just let him figure it out in his own time but we have been noticing some slightly worrying signs over the last few weeks.
About 2 weeks ago I managed to get a rare stroking session in with Henry and as soon as Bea noticed she came running over and very quickly positioned herself between us with her nose touching my forearm, I took the hint and stroked them both at the same time. I thought that she was being a bit of a diva but I didn't think much of it until last night.
Dan got home from work at about 4:30am and we sat and had a chat before going to bed. Henry started to venture into our room (which is something that he never does without Bea) and then before we knew it, Bea came chasing after him, postitioned herself to the side of him and proceeded to put her chin down on his neck. He then did a u-turn and returned to the front room where they spend all of their time.
It was almost like she was telling him that he wasn't allowed to come in and see us. Is that possible?! She stayed in our room with us, jumped on the sofa to say hello and then returned to Henry. Could it be that she is being possessive over us? I know that it sounds weird but the behaviour was odd and we both noticed it :/ Looking back we both think that there has been other signs of it too but we put it down to him being shy.
If so, Poor Hen
And what can we do to fix it?
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