Rampaging Puggles.

[den]

Tongight Rexie climbed out of the feeding box without me noticing and went rampaging through the house. The first I knew of this was when she wandered into the office and pushed against my right leg, forcing her spines through my sock and drawing blood from a dozen tiny pin-holes. Needless to say it was brown-trousers time for me. I said something like "WHOAAARGHWHATTHE FUUUUUOUUUCH!" and a few other noises indicating fear and alarm before discovering the source of the fear. And alarm.

Anyway. Rexie now weighs 1.02kg after her feed.

It's funny the way things I consider normal make others shake their heads.

"Oh, that's where the owl scratched me..."
"Yeah, the joey pooped on that seat..."
"Last week I was bitten by a bat..."
"That stain is echidna piss, and *that's* a curry stain..."
"When I had my rabies shots..."
"So we steam-ironed the eagle's tail feathers..."

I can't think why.

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

So I may be a sick human being, but I'd like to see what a puggle wound looks like. I'm really curious.

So she just spikes you unintentionally, then? It's like a cat rubbing against your legs? I'm trying to grok the puggle demeanour and temperment...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

They holes starf out looking like a pin-prick, then they turn into small itchy lumps. There's nothing serious about them.

As for why, I think she was just trying to push past my foot. I don't think they really think of much apart from food and shelter, and at that time of year the males are thinking of something else.

That's why you get the "love trains" of a female being followed by half a dozen males.