Today’s excitement

[Sydney65]

I think the lack of response was likely due to it being in the middle of eating. It had something it was munching on. I think it was irritated that the guinea was disturbing it, but maybe due to other run-ins knew the guinea wouldn’t give up?

Perhaps if it was just a young one it might not have known how to respond. I’m really not

Even the juveniles will start hissing and showing teeth if you walk up on it. We had lots of experience last year - 12 over a 2 week period. I got to the point where I'd constantly get up in the night to check, even after we put out a live trap.
We had a mom w/3 babies, then varies stages of "teens". They were all cute until they saw us.
The last one, there was nothing cute about it. It was much bigger & older. I thought for sure he was going to break the trap; he managed to flip it over on it's side but still didn't get out.
I don't know what the magic was after the 2 weeks in June, if they'd been driven out by construction somewhere or they recognized the smell of blood, but there weren't any after that.