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09-30-2003, 12:33 AM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Carolina
Posts: 410
| Behavior question
I'm attempting to intro Audi and Praline and it isn't going well. Tonight while out playing Audi decided to go after Praline. I snatched her off in time to avoid injury but Praline slipped some fur. Audi promptly picked up the fur and ate it!!  Ideas?
I gave her a piece of papaya to avoid a GI issue but I'm stumped as to why she'd do that!!
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09-30-2003, 01:20 AM
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#2 | | Bootcamper extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2003 Location: BC, Canada Age: 30
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| Hmmm... I've never seen that! Mine do their best to get all the fur out of their mouth after they've had a tiff 
I wonder if that's one way of showing dominance??? | |
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09-30-2003, 05:14 AM
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#3 | | Just call me Scooter
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Sweden
Posts: 1,658
| I've seen my boys eat the other's fur lots of times. And not only when they pull it out, but if they come across a piece that is just laying around they'll pic it up and start nibbling. | |
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09-30-2003, 07:06 AM
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#4 | | Mom to 3 gorgeous boys
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Campbellton, NB Age: 26
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| really,,,hmmm,,,mine have never ate it, well not that I have noticed anyways,  | |
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09-30-2003, 07:37 AM
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#5 | | Proud Momma
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Providence Forge, VA Age: 30
Posts: 1,627
| I have seen my chinnie pairs eat each others fur....especially when introducing the mating pairs. I just gave them some papaya and they have always been fine. If I see them trying to eat the chunk of fur, i try to get most of the fur out of their mouths before they consume it all. I wish I knew why they did it too....its not like they do it all the time (acutally I haven't seen them do it since I introduced them) but it would be interesting to find out why. | |
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09-30-2003, 06:24 PM
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09-30-2003, 08:20 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Calgary Age: 42
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| Yes this has happened here on several occaisions. It appears to be the females that do this more when introducing them to a male, but it seems to be isolated only to introductions. I had one female who did this on the five occaisions I tried to introduce her to a male. Everytime she would chase him around the cage, grab a fistful of fur and then promptly eat it, needless to say the intro was cut short.
I think this may be a dominance issue1
Carleen
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09-30-2003, 09:14 PM
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#8 | | Please explain "Free Time"
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: New Westminster, BC
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| I've seen something similar between two males upon introduction. I just made sure to give everyone petromalt that night.
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10-01-2003, 08:03 AM
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#9 | | Zoo Keeper
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10-01-2003, 11:49 AM
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