Our Official Bonding Journal
Here we will try to have our human keep a daily journal of our bonding. Try being the keyword. Our humans sometimes think they can put things before us. Like work. Silly humans.
So to make note of this ~ WE HAD NO INTENTION TO START BONDING THIS SOON AFTER SPECKLES SPAY ~
~ Day 1 ~
The vet saw her yesterday and approved that she had healed enough to leave her small temporary cage to go and be back in her condo cage we made her. Which during her healing time, when Chom was not glued beside her small healing cage, he was napping within her condo.
So she was in her condo, when I heard rattling, and turned and Chom had yanked the door open, ripping the clips holding the door off. Terribly sneaky man! I went to go and grab him to separate them, BUT Speckles stopped me in my tracks. Chom laid down, and she flopped beside him! I think they were trying to tell us something!
So we humans discussed what to do, and decided that they would be started bonding. I have yet to break them up actually, and it has been easily 5 hours since he broke into her cage, with no problems really. There were two attempts at him mounting her face, but she wriggled away and he stopped trying. There has been a TON of snuggles, and lots of Speckles flopping beside him. There were about 3 moments where I got confused. Speckles started to groom him, and Chom got up, thumped, and moved to a different part of the cage. Speckles followed him, and laid down beside him, stuck her head underneath his chin, and they laid there like that for ages. Wondering whats up with that?
They have mainly snuggled, but I have noticed they will lay at different parts of the cage and just relax. Speckles was fully stretched out, but Chom was not. Although since moving back home he has yet to fully stretch out. ((I think he has some problems with my slippery floor, and getting back up from that position is hard on him with no traction.))
So anyway I did take a few pictures of them. Sorry for the bad resolution. Horrible camera on my phone, and also I was half in the cage, propped up on one arm while attempting to take these. I really would appreciate any advice with bonding them, and tell me if I’m doing things wrong!
I know most people say to keep the bonding sessions short in the beginning but these two have just been so snuggly, and look so comfy that I would feel horrible for breaking it up. Oh and to note, the entire time he has been in the cage, the door has been wide open, so they could leave at any time. Neither has even paid attention to it. Both ignored the rustling of the treat bag, something they normally would come running for.