Mervinius
Mama Doe
Pippin has been getting more grunty and started lunging at Archie when any food if offered to them. She has even started a strange grunting bucking donkey move. She grunts and leaps in the air and often lands on poor Archie. I don't want either of them hurt.
We've tried scattering pellets and not feeding with a bowl etc, it helped a little, but she was definitely getting worse.
I've been recommended to keep them both in their pen and restrict their freedom for a while. So she re learns her territory and perhaps she was stressed by the freedom we have her in our new house.
(We moved to a new house and stupidly gave them almost free reign after just 3 days) this behaviour only started in this house. It never happened before and we've had them 3 years.
Any other ideas everyone.
They are both staring at me and tugging on the pen because they want to come out.
I feel mean.
We've tried scattering pellets and not feeding with a bowl etc, it helped a little, but she was definitely getting worse.
I've been recommended to keep them both in their pen and restrict their freedom for a while. So she re learns her territory and perhaps she was stressed by the freedom we have her in our new house.
(We moved to a new house and stupidly gave them almost free reign after just 3 days) this behaviour only started in this house. It never happened before and we've had them 3 years.
Any other ideas everyone.
They are both staring at me and tugging on the pen because they want to come out.
I feel mean.