Head butting!

[jlb1077]

So I went to feed Porky this am and he head butted me 2 times. He usually patiently waits for me to put his food in and proceeds to eat. Not this am!!! Why do they do that?

 

[peasinapod]

AW: Head butting!

Maybe you weren't fast enough?
Every once in a while Peter will do that to me as well. I just take it as him trying to assert his dominance and trying to protect his territory. I try to leave him alone if he does that.
Let's just be happy that it isn't a sulcata butting us, hermann's just look adorable while doing it! :heart:

 

[jlb1077]

Lol very true. It cracked us up. I was offering some lettuce by hand, as I have done hundreds of times. It just surprised me because he has never done that in the year we have had him.

 

[Tom]

Its because you are all up in his face!

Haha! Seriously though, if you back your hand a few inches away, he will likely not do that. If he's sitting at or on the food bowl, you can just move him back a few inches to prevent the ramming behavior.

 

[jlb1077]

I usually have to move him from his food. I put him on other side of tank cause he hauls *** to get breakfast. This time was no different I just had a piece of lettuce I dropped and he came from across his cage and butted me.