GreenFaerie
New Kit
I travel full time with my pair (m/f bonded neutered adult) giant breeds. Back in September the same day that we got to my friend's house I put them in an outdoor run that my friends had built specifically for my babies and went to bed after driving for 10 hours. I woke up to my girl dead on the floor and my boy draped over her body with a snake hole in the ground next to them.
My boy spent over a week regaining his strength, being syringe fed while the swelling in his neck subsided. The vet determined they were bitten by the same snake and she got all the venom, he got a dry bite. He was too out of it to understand that our girl (Darkstar) was not coming back. Since then he has been very clingy and has begun to pee on my bed while I am asleep.
About three weeks after Morningstar (my boy) recovered I attempted to begin bonding him with a new girl, a beautiful little Rex, but as soon as he saw her he was first excited because she was the same coloring as his lost love, then when he saw her face he charged her. The first time they were allowed in the same space he injured her to the point she needed stitches and had to go back to her former home.
Our vet said to wait a few months before trying again.
I have just adopted another Flemish Giant who will be 3mos old on the 16th of this month and Morningstar is showing really positive signs, he is trying to sniff and attempting to lick her through the cage, every day he climbs into her cage when she isn't in it, and now that they have been living side by side for two weeks we have had their first face to face meeting without bars in between.
The first meeting (yesterday) went great: he tried to groom her, she ran away, he didn't chase her. They played in the same space and things went well.
Today I let them both out of their pens and he tried to groom her again and she screamed, pulled out his fur
and I had to separate them. He is still very interested but a little afraid while she is sitting in her own pen acting like he doesn't exist.
Morningstar is acting happier than he has in months. Is the baby attacking him part of normal bonding? I haven't attempted to bond a baby with a grieving adult before.
My boy spent over a week regaining his strength, being syringe fed while the swelling in his neck subsided. The vet determined they were bitten by the same snake and she got all the venom, he got a dry bite. He was too out of it to understand that our girl (Darkstar) was not coming back. Since then he has been very clingy and has begun to pee on my bed while I am asleep.
About three weeks after Morningstar (my boy) recovered I attempted to begin bonding him with a new girl, a beautiful little Rex, but as soon as he saw her he was first excited because she was the same coloring as his lost love, then when he saw her face he charged her. The first time they were allowed in the same space he injured her to the point she needed stitches and had to go back to her former home.
Our vet said to wait a few months before trying again.
I have just adopted another Flemish Giant who will be 3mos old on the 16th of this month and Morningstar is showing really positive signs, he is trying to sniff and attempting to lick her through the cage, every day he climbs into her cage when she isn't in it, and now that they have been living side by side for two weeks we have had their first face to face meeting without bars in between.
The first meeting (yesterday) went great: he tried to groom her, she ran away, he didn't chase her. They played in the same space and things went well.
Today I let them both out of their pens and he tried to groom her again and she screamed, pulled out his fur
and I had to separate them. He is still very interested but a little afraid while she is sitting in her own pen acting like he doesn't exist. Morningstar is acting happier than he has in months. Is the baby attacking him part of normal bonding? I haven't attempted to bond a baby with a grieving adult before.
