The Fortified guinea pigs are not happy today

[fortifiedwithtea]

Fatimus is hormonal again, which never makes for a happy hutch. The bad feeling started yesterday and today it's unbearable.

Yesterday:

Naughty Girl was in the bedroom and Fatimus wanted to pass her to get in. If Naughty could speak she would have said "No you poo in the bedroom."

Fatimus would have replied "Fine I won't let you out then." Fatimus laid across the entrance, trapping Naughty in the bedroom.

Naughty gave the ultimate guinea pig come back. She bit Fatimus smartly on the bum Fatimus leapt in the air and went off rumbling to the shoe box hidey.

Today:

I was up at Sparrows fart and so know Fatimus has been chasing Naughty for hours, humping and biting her back . After the school drop off it was still going on. So much so it was interrupting chat and putting the world to right I was having with a friend.

I picked Fatimus up and asked her what she thought she was doing not really. She nibbled the end of my nose .

I've put her in the big run with the summer house attached on her own. Naughty has had a long sleep and has now perked up and is eating veggies.

When I go in the garden Fatimus is wheaking and running in the tunnels telling me she has no BFF. Well she can have her BFF back later in the day when Naughty is fully rested from her.

Awwww feeling the pain here !
Little blighters aren't they?

Probably a combination of hormones/muggy hot weather and thinking "If OB was here we could've had him courted him"

We used to take the boars into seperate rooms to give them 1:1 time (aka cooling off and don't block your brother in the hedgehog house again) until they got fretful like Fatimus is sounding.

Don't you wish sometimes that you could reason with them and they'd listen. I was seriously thinking of a waterspray bottle to divert attention.
Ours used to bear phenomenal grudges, GP2 sat on his brother buried in hay one time and I could hear GP1 plaintive schreeches from outside the Pighouse.

GP1 got his own back by squeezing past his brother- not round him, UNDER him.

Update:
Fatimus spent afternoon pleading for BFF. After school I give Naughty cuddle time and a bunch of grass. She snuggled down and I felt guilty about moving her out to the run.

Fatimus greeted her with a Brrrrrr..... "Don't think for a minute I've missed you noise" yeah right . Then they went to their own log rolls obvs they can't share, they are as good as sisters and we know what that means .

It is days like these that Fatimus needs eye candy aka Old Boy. Bless him, he is missed in so many ways. The two boars next door neither wheak or waft their boar smell over the fence they are bathed very regularly being the hairy mop variety.

I have a Primark bag for the girls. A special treat but if I give it to them today WW3 will break out . Today is not a day for sharing

Laughing so much at this thread - they sound like my DDs bickering

PS we've had watermelon wars today - Smooth picked up a slice and walloped Scruffy in the face with it

with human DDs you can smack their bums and send them off to do the washing up their rooms.
Bit more difficult with Cavy Kiddies.

GP1 has sort of regressed IYSWIM. He's very chatty and noisy. I went to give him parsley and he dived into the haytrug. Had to put the fan up a notch to keep him cool.

And he looks really pigletty and pointy nosed at the moment

Still eating'n'poohing .

to admit I'm at the squabbling hogs .

LOL at this thread Fortified -girls can be so arsey and difficult, this is when separate quarters do come into their own, the guinea equivalent of the naughty step - cooling off time much better when you cansling put them down gently into different hutches, and then they fret and become incredibly jealous of all the others. Hormones and heat, marvellous combination. - That kind of judgey jostling they do to push each other out of the way, and snapping blindly at each others' rumps. When my girls used to do their Von Trapp line into the shed at night it had to be in a certain order, otherwise Little Miss Bossy would get very stroppy with them and stand defensively at the entrance to the shed. I am convinced she was a sergeant major in another existence....

Fernie lol at the near miss with the melon, love it when they pick up oversized veg like a bone and knock each other around with it.

70 - has GP1 confided in you about his proposed choice of friend yet?

No preference stated yet guineapiglet but I think the priority for him is "soon" .
I went to the Pighouse to chat to him today (even though I don't speak GP language)

I'm hankering after visualising a little scruffy black-and-white piglet. Preferably with pink claws (would make my life easier)
Selfishly I'm thinking of a short sighted pink-eye because it would be more dependant and 'needy'. GP1 can be like a big, bumphly Steven Fry type Uncle Pig .

70 IF you get a black and white piglet I shall INSIST on being Godmother!! They are adorable. If I had to chose between monochrome and ginger I would be very hard pressed to do so!

I have a funny feeling that there will be a lucky little chap waiting for you to come along, ( maybe even a guinea pair!), I know what you mean about a Stephen Fry type figure, except ( it is me and my age) I just don't find him funny, - a kind of indulgent uncle ( like Great Uncle Bulgaria in the Wombles!) would be so lovely. I think I am more excited than you are!!! :) ;) ;)

You can be Honourary Godmother guineapiglet.
I love B&W pigs too, one of my sows was a B&W smooth, she was lovely.

GP1 is helping DD with her maths homework. I don't rate her chances. He keeps sitting on the calculator and he can only count up to 14

Smooth is a short sighted pink eye and he's the boss in the pig house. Definitely only show him pigs with pink claws

Current Bun is banned from helping with homework - he once ran away with a worksheet and gave it frilly edges

Oooh I might think again about P/E pigs.
Our two Himalayan sows were like a comedy duo they were so batlike.
I thought a baby P/E would wheek to GP1 to save him, then he could be all AlphaPig like he was with GP2,

Your ScruffyPig has a really cheeky look in his eyes in his photo.

I thought GPs were bad enough in Springtime but it seems the hot, claggy weather brings out the worst in them.

To be fair, GP1 only came up to the table because there was a strawberry Cornetto cone in the offing.
Magnus Pike he is not

I would come to the table for a strawberry cornetto