Good Morning all!
So I recently bought two male winter whites, one having a pearl coat and the other a brown/grey. They’re from the same litter and were brought up together. So far, they’re getting on just fine, i’ve Actually spent the last week spending the nights up so I can monitor them. They squeak very rarely and I have never seen them fight, only walk over each other.
My real question is, little Mocha (brown/grey coat) is lovely and has only nippled me once really gently. However, Latte (pearl coat) seems to loathe the ground I walk on. Mocha happily walks over to me and hops on my hand. Latte will follow me around the cage just to nibble me. He’s never drew blood, but he has hung on pretty well a few times. What I don’t understand is that he will happy walk over to me and get on my hand/let me stroke him. He even cleans himself on me.
Now whilst i’ve Never seen them fight, i’m Starting to think it’ll be best to split them up. As I feel as though Latte may have cage aggression. They have two of everything and their tank is 140cm x 45cm. As I said, they’ve never actually fought, but I do notice that Latte is the far more dominant one. Mocha will be running on his wheel and Latte will just come over and join him! Literally, just hop on right behind or even next to him and run as well. They have separate food bowls and every now and then they will get into each others bowls, but they’re definitely both eating just fine. Same goes with water. They have around 8/9” of bedding and never really use their hides, they prefer to sleep behind them (lol), but they really love to stay in their tunnels (I have two extendable tunnels) they keep all their food in there.
I’m concerned for Latte as I have the feeling that even once I split them up (I never wanted to keep them together, my mum was really the one who insisted it) he will still be quite aggressive. I’ll never get rid of him because he’s so beautiful and when he doesn’t bite (quite rare, but it happens
) he’s lovely! Is there any advice? I don’t care about the biting, it generally does seem like it’s just cage aggression as once he’s out he seldom bites.