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Q & A / Re: The kids are fighting
« on: July 11, 2007, 04:54:29 PM »
O no it was never our intention to breed them, even when we first got her I never wanted to breed her. I always thought if I wanted babies I would by a pair just for that. Shes never really gotten along with other girls, the breeder we got her from told us she would fight with the other girls (maybe the reason she was the last girl to be sold), shes not to fond of many human females either. So we thought we'd get a boy and luck out and have a non-breeding pair.....guess not lol. We have no papers for either of them...I dont even know where Harry's first people got him.
I think thats a great idea, we'll have to get a smaller cage for them to go into, but at least it'll give the fur some time to grow back. I hope things work out for you guys as well 
. So I started looking around for a friend for her, I started looking about a year ago, I found Harry at the end of April. Hes almost 4. Now Harry has a back story....We are his 3rd home, the first one he was in the female rejected him, so they got another male and gave him to a friend 
. There he had a girl that didn't reject him, they had babies, but the people put them all outside and they eventually died 
(it doesn't get that warm here), so my poor Harry was all alone and sad I'm sure. So they moved him back inside, to their boys room 
. They didn't handle him much, if at all, hes still pretty unsure when we go to love him, but he does want the attention (he jumps up on his cage when we walk by, runs up like he wants to be petted but doesn't know what to do when you start), and hes fairly rough, not a gentle boy. So apparently he was to much of a hassle and made to much of a mess.....so now hes mine 
. Their cages are next to each other about 4-5 inches apart, they sniff, seem to talk, and hang out where they can see eachother. So, we start the introduction process, they seem fine in eachothers cages, not tearing it up anymore than they would do to their own, so...about 3 weeks ago we thought maybe its time for them to try to play together. We took them to our room and let them go. They were fine for the first 15 minutes or so, then he started chasing her and pulling out fur, 
she got a few chunks out of him as well, so we managed to catch them and put them back. Once in their cages they were like fine again 
. So we tried it again last night. The same thing happend, we though maybe they just needed to work it out, so we watched to see what was going on, who was starting it, whatever. He like stalks her, and when she gets close tried to jump on or at her, and then chases her. All she wanted to do was hide from him 
. I feel like the worst mom now. All I wanted was to get a friend for her so she wouldn't be sad or lonely anymore 
. So I'm guessing Mr. Harry had some deep issues and doesn't like the Hippie. So...is this normal? Do we just need to spend more time bonding with him, since this is his 3rd house? Is this just the way it is and they can just never play together? Any comments would be sooooo appreciated. O and thanks for taking the time to read my novel