First Meetings

[onthehunt 40]

Just want some advice. I have two kits I bought one is now 13.5 weeks and the other is 8 weeks. The older one is much much larger and hyper active and my question is that is it safe to let them play together unsupervised? I've let em sniff each other and no animosity its just the size difference that worries me if the bigger one plays roughly, could he do some damage?

 

Any advice/comments are welcome! Cheers

[socks 32,253]

Put them in together they will be absolutely fine .... There may be a lot of noise and jumping about and grabbing each other but that's normal don't worry about it ...........

[The one 8,589]

Put them together they will be fine and playing together will burn up some of there energy

[Andrew Beirne 78]

the runt of my litter was the boss after i weaned em she got the food first now shes back and the size difference between her and her sister is unreal and the small one always starts the play fighting

[ferret333 750]

should be fine bud, i find all yearling despite the age difference get along fine

[zor 4]

No harm keeping them appart till its older if you've got the space, purely for your own peace of mind.

[onthehunt 40]

Took advice for second meeting and I put them together in large hutch and wasn't so much rough and tumble but more 14 week old kit dragging 9 week old around. normal one might say but then left them alone for 5 mins after supervising and it then became nasty. younger kit was screaming and has a blood shot eye and bad bruising. Shouldn't have been so hasty and I should listen to gut instinct and stick to supervised meetings. always wait until the younger animal is 11 weeks at least.

[onthehunt 40]

Young kit looks better now but I am with them when their together. the older one is huge for his age and is only interested in treating the younger kit like one of cat toys lol

[foxtails 272]

iv got a very small jill kit, and a big hob kit, the jill pins him down and jumps all over him lol so just put them in together, they'l be fine!

[onthehunt 40]

What scared me is that the younger kit was bleeding from one of his eyes and had a cut on his ear. his eye was weeping for the rest of yesterday. he seemed very stressed and ran to me everytime I put him down with the older kit! don't want to put him at risk so I am thinking its best to wait till he's a few weeks older.

[The one 8,589]

Try putting in a bit of pipe etc that only the smallest kit can get into giving him somewhere to go if he wants peace , But if you are going to run them together some time there going to have to settle there ranking dont keep putting them together and splitting them your just prolonging it