Wildlife: Heidi Chronicles: Cookie Time - Won't You Join Us?, 1 by DreamOfSpring

DreamOfSpring wrote:
2 kits arguing. The one front right (might be Petey, not sure) is accosting the one back left. The latter is smaller and has a lower status mom (the yearling). The one up front is being a little bully and is telling the other one that he/she can't use the buffet - even though as you can see there is plenty of space. As you can see from the body language the one back left is feeling intimidated.

Even when intimidated this way, the kits almost always 'dig in' and stay even if only in the back corner. Wherever they end up, I toss them food. Every now and then one might feel too threatened on its 1st day at the buffet and may let the others drive it into the brush. If that happens, I toss food at the edge of the brush near them to coax them to at least come over to the edge. (That's all over now, of course, as all of the kits have been coming to the buffet for a while now and are old enough to stand up for themselves.)