Food Agression

Still hiding amongst the chairs.

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D says:

Colbert is getting better. I don't think that he believes that we'll hurt him. I think he avoids us and gets tense when we hold him out of habit rather than genuine fear. When I'm on the couch he'll work up the desire to play with Max and Buela. I'll call out his name, which I think he recognizes, and he'll stop playing, turn to his safe spot by the dining table, and after a minute he'll return to playing. Each successive time I call out his name he walks away a little less ultimately only doing a turnaround. So I think it's just habit for him.

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When we first received Colbert, we were told that he had attacked one of his litter mates over food, namely because Colbert is a runt and was being crowded out of the food bowl. The first few times we tried feeding all four together there was some rumbling of the throat, lunging, and charging.

As of tonight, there is just his own crowding out of the others from his food dish. This is mainly for Max and Buela as Corona seems uninterested in him, specifically because of ungentlemanly behavior involving her posterior.

Max just wants to check out the new playmate and assert the pecking order, while Buela has a perpetual bottomless pit substituting as her stomach.

Haha, I still remember her as a puppy eating her dinner and drinking water until her little belly looked like she'd swallowed a softball.