sadie7684
03-04-2013, 12:23 PM
Ophelia and Jonah are a little bit less the 8 months old now and still in the same cage together. Until a few days ago they have been getting along perfectly. :(
Ophelia has been a bit witchy with him, it's almost as if she's become a bully! She follows him around the cage with a piece of food in her mouth and then gives him a hard time. Jonah is a lot more mellow then she is and doesn't seem to want to fight with her so he is always the one to move somewhere else. She always eats her veggies/fruit and HHB's but hoards her nuts and Kaytee blocks, something she has not done until recently.
I have been reading up on squirrel maturity and saw in a post on here that female squirrels can go into heat around 5 or 6 months. My question is do you think this is what's going on with her and should I separate them so Jonah can get some peace and quiet.
Ophelia has been a bit witchy with him, it's almost as if she's become a bully! She follows him around the cage with a piece of food in her mouth and then gives him a hard time. Jonah is a lot more mellow then she is and doesn't seem to want to fight with her so he is always the one to move somewhere else. She always eats her veggies/fruit and HHB's but hoards her nuts and Kaytee blocks, something she has not done until recently.
I have been reading up on squirrel maturity and saw in a post on here that female squirrels can go into heat around 5 or 6 months. My question is do you think this is what's going on with her and should I separate them so Jonah can get some peace and quiet.