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Mar. 29th, 2007 10:43 pmWell, that wasn't tooo awful....
Tonight since the weather was decent I decided on the building's back porch for tonight's session. It probably smells like trash and pigeon poop, and CERTAINLY not like home. The pen I am using at its largest is twice the size of a bathtub, and when I sit cross-legged on a meditation cushion there is a crescent-shaped space they can use to interact but no where I cannot reach them. I brought out a plate of veggies (cut small) and set it between them.
At the beginning there was a LOT of aggression on both sides. I think Frisco is starting to really be afraid of her, and she still startles easily, especially when stressed. I had to pull apart a couple of major clinches, including one where I couldn't get him to let go of her lef-fur for what seemed like forever, and another where I actually pulled him off the ground, hanging by his teeth from my glove, eyes squeezed shut and all four feets a'kicking.
After about 10 minutes they settled down to studiously ignoring each other from opposite sides of the pen. For a while they were actually alternating ooching up to the plate and grabbing a piece of veggie before backing off. Frisco did a couple of drive-by sprayings, but then spent quite a bit of time hiding behind my leg, sticking his head out to chin the occasional piece of broccoli. Pepper just sat and munched, between bouts of trying to figure out how to get out of the pen.
After half an hour or so, I folded the pen in a bit smaller to try and get them to interact. He came up to her face and sniffed her several times, but only for a split second before jumping back. She pretty much either ignored him or gave him the bunny-butt. Then we got to sitting about a foot apart and grooming - including a terribly cute simultaneous face-washing episode.
We had been out there for around 45 minutes, I was getting kind of cold, and I figured that this was about as close to "ending on a positive note" as I was likely to get, so everyone came back inside and got a small handful of cilantro on their respective sides of the fence.
Whew! It could have been better, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse.
Tonight since the weather was decent I decided on the building's back porch for tonight's session. It probably smells like trash and pigeon poop, and CERTAINLY not like home. The pen I am using at its largest is twice the size of a bathtub, and when I sit cross-legged on a meditation cushion there is a crescent-shaped space they can use to interact but no where I cannot reach them. I brought out a plate of veggies (cut small) and set it between them.
At the beginning there was a LOT of aggression on both sides. I think Frisco is starting to really be afraid of her, and she still startles easily, especially when stressed. I had to pull apart a couple of major clinches, including one where I couldn't get him to let go of her lef-fur for what seemed like forever, and another where I actually pulled him off the ground, hanging by his teeth from my glove, eyes squeezed shut and all four feets a'kicking.
After about 10 minutes they settled down to studiously ignoring each other from opposite sides of the pen. For a while they were actually alternating ooching up to the plate and grabbing a piece of veggie before backing off. Frisco did a couple of drive-by sprayings, but then spent quite a bit of time hiding behind my leg, sticking his head out to chin the occasional piece of broccoli. Pepper just sat and munched, between bouts of trying to figure out how to get out of the pen.
After half an hour or so, I folded the pen in a bit smaller to try and get them to interact. He came up to her face and sniffed her several times, but only for a split second before jumping back. She pretty much either ignored him or gave him the bunny-butt. Then we got to sitting about a foot apart and grooming - including a terribly cute simultaneous face-washing episode.
We had been out there for around 45 minutes, I was getting kind of cold, and I figured that this was about as close to "ending on a positive note" as I was likely to get, so everyone came back inside and got a small handful of cilantro on their respective sides of the fence.
Whew! It could have been better, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse.
