Hjördis

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Hjördis is a 3 years old Tortoiseshell & White Peruvian female. (Here in Sweden Hjördis is a name that mainly elderly ladies have, since it has gone out of fasion. I think it is a pretty name.)

Hjördis was born on the 3rd of February 2003. Hjördis is not a registered pedigree cavy. She has been living alone since her sister Disa died 2 years ago.

Hjördis arrived on the evening of the 8th of June 2006.

Here's what happened the first day:

Hjördis directly went into one of the cavy houses when she arrived, and hasn't come out much since :-) Nemo's been there talking nicely to her, and then she stuck her head out telling him to go away! Now I just saw her attacking Nemo! Wow, I just got myself a fighter! And Stjärna was caught in between so now she is crying, upset... I'll have to check to see so that no-one got hurt...

Happily there was no damage done. Right after Nemo got attacked he showed a very strange behaviour - he walked round and round, digging in the hay. He looked very upset, his fur was on edge and he made strange noises! I've never seen anything like it.

Well, he got over it fast, he's out on the floor right now, talking to Tanja, they are good friends...

Here is what Hjördis looked like after I had cut her claws and cut off some the long hair that was hanging in her face, making it hard for her to see. I think she is pretty and I know that she is very tame, so I really hope she will soon become friends with the rest of the herd and that she will live a long life.

After I had cut off some of the long hair in her face she was less aggressive towards the other cavies, probably she really needed to see them in order to trust them! The first night here she slept in the biggest cavy house, and Nemo went in there with her to sleep. But she chased him out again... In the morning they were both sleeping in there, and seemed to have become friends!

That was what happened on the first day here!

On the second day she was staying with Nemo in the house for hours, they really looked like they had become friends.

On the third day I had cage cleaning day, and she spent most of her time with Nemo, while he was not walking around on the floor. I saw Stjärna go and say Hello to her, and that went very well. Now it is only Ninni that I haven't seen with her.

On the fourth day she is now out with the others, walking between two of the cages. She seems happy :-) The only thing left is to wait for her walking out on the floor :-)

When she had been here for almost a week she found the breakfast bowl. And now she is eating breakfast with the others.

A few times I have found her screaming, then either Stjärna is telling her to get out that house, or Tanja is tjattering at her. Then I just tell them to stop and they do just that. It is interesting to learn hos smart cavies really are!

The last days in June she started walk around on the floor, and I can already tell you where her favourite places are :-) The first days in July she had developed a habit of walking around on the floor without the others... So within a month after she arrived she turned out to another of the truly freeroaming cavies :-)

Later she developed a bit of a problem behaviour:

My piggies used to be freeroamers, meaning that they were not locked up in cages. They had the whole apartment floor to walk around on when they wanted to, and they lived together in a cavyherd. But then came Hjördis...

Hjördis decided that under the sofa was the place to use as a toilet, no matter what I did. I tried fencing off, but she only sat as close as she copuld and used that as a toilet... In the end I had to put them in some kind of enclosure, so now they live in a 3 squaremeters big enclose...

Watch a YouTube Video of Hjördis, and one more: YouTube.