So my friend is baby-sitting a guinea pig and a rabbit (called Blackjack) while the owners are overseas. Here is a snippet from his email, describing what happened today:
"she... started complaining about Blackjack eating her lime tree.
Today I let the guinea pig out, he started to stroll around gingerly
and stopped to eat some kind of leaf, then the rabbit saw him and
bounded over, then chased him, then jumped on him and wrapped his paws
around his front and started humping. (!) When I separated them the
guniea pig started squealing - I don't know if he was protesting about
the sex, or his freedom being curtailed, or the fact that I was trying
to pull him out from under the rabbit while the rabbit was clutching
him with his front paws, or just becasue I was interrupting. Anyway,
I put the guinea pig back in the cage and the rabbit started to hump
my leg(!) then hopped back in with the guinea pig and followed him into the
undercover part of the hutch and they sat there snuggling (cheek to
cheek) for the next 15 minutes. I don't know why, but I find all this
behaviour fascinating
"she... started complaining about Blackjack eating her lime tree.
Today I let the guinea pig out, he started to stroll around gingerly
and stopped to eat some kind of leaf, then the rabbit saw him and
bounded over, then chased him, then jumped on him and wrapped his paws
around his front and started humping. (!) When I separated them the
guniea pig started squealing - I don't know if he was protesting about
the sex, or his freedom being curtailed, or the fact that I was trying
to pull him out from under the rabbit while the rabbit was clutching
him with his front paws, or just becasue I was interrupting. Anyway,
I put the guinea pig back in the cage and the rabbit started to hump
my leg(!) then hopped back in with the guinea pig and followed him into the
undercover part of the hutch and they sat there snuggling (cheek to
cheek) for the next 15 minutes. I don't know why, but I find all this
behaviour fascinating
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