zombiekiwi
New Member
I recently adopted a Flemish Giant, and she is about 3 1/2 months old, named Alys. Not very big yet- she's just a little bigger than my mini rex, Merle.
I have kept their cages on my back porch and have been caring for them there until the hutch is completed (They just got too smelly to keep in the house- the Flemish Giant just poops and poops!) and I decided to bring Alys inside out of the heat for a little while. She was prancing all about (Ruined a charger cord I forgot to put up -__-) and was having fun, but she hopped up onto my bed and seemed fixated on a blanket I had just dropped there. She kept sniffing a certain part, and when I went to pat her head, she violently rubbed her face onto my hand and gently nibbled on my finger. When she was done with that, she went back to the blanket and licked it.
But what I noticed on my hand was a foul smell, like a mixture of B.O., onions, and skunk spray. The room also started smelling oddly like that, and when I went to pick her up to go back in her cage, she freaked out and a dreadful cloud of the same smell enveloped the area.
I've read about scent marking, but it seems strange since she is still a youngin.
And, also, she clawed the bajeezus out of my arms when I tried to put her away, which she doesn't usually do.
I am already struggling with horrible behavioral issues with my mini rex (I got him as an adult, he was mistreated.) I really don't want my new baby to have something wrong with her, too.
What is wrong?
I have kept their cages on my back porch and have been caring for them there until the hutch is completed (They just got too smelly to keep in the house- the Flemish Giant just poops and poops!) and I decided to bring Alys inside out of the heat for a little while. She was prancing all about (Ruined a charger cord I forgot to put up -__-) and was having fun, but she hopped up onto my bed and seemed fixated on a blanket I had just dropped there. She kept sniffing a certain part, and when I went to pat her head, she violently rubbed her face onto my hand and gently nibbled on my finger. When she was done with that, she went back to the blanket and licked it.
But what I noticed on my hand was a foul smell, like a mixture of B.O., onions, and skunk spray. The room also started smelling oddly like that, and when I went to pick her up to go back in her cage, she freaked out and a dreadful cloud of the same smell enveloped the area.
I've read about scent marking, but it seems strange since she is still a youngin.
And, also, she clawed the bajeezus out of my arms when I tried to put her away, which she doesn't usually do.
I am already struggling with horrible behavioral issues with my mini rex (I got him as an adult, he was mistreated.) I really don't want my new baby to have something wrong with her, too.
What is wrong?