behavior

Hello everyone, I have a really important question and need help. Here is a little backstory : my sister had two piggies for about 5 years not and last march I got myself a little girl from a piggie breeder. Pepsi has a cage on her own but my sister would bring her piggies round a couple of...

Today I had to say goodbye to my beautiful rescue piggle Mimbles. She had lumps on her, was losing her fur and her heartbeat was very slow. Absolutely heartbreaking to see but I know my baby isn't in pain now. Now my worries lie with her best friend Pip who is now alone. She has a fleece that...

I adopted a mom and a baby from the Animal Humane Society. The mum is 1 year old, and the baby is around 4 weeks. The mother has been rumble strutting, which is normal... but today, she has been seemingly ATTACKING her baby! The baby gives out these horrible shrills, so I usually take her out to...

Hello , My guinea pig Fluffy has recently been lying down on its side with his legs kind of twisted but raised i hope you understand what I mean. Anyway , my older guinea pig who passed away 2 years did the same thing however this my old piggie lyed down on its side ALL THE TIME for a long time...

We just got our two sows. Oreo is amazing and the sweetest thing ever- Sunshine not so much. :no: She's ok when we pick her up and do lap time then all of a sudden she will do her little nips ( which I'm ok with) but then turns into a bite and it's a hard bite. Not sure what to do and will this...

Hi all, Been a long time since I have been on the forum but I was hoping for an opinion please :) one of my lovely boys unfortunately crossed the rainbow bridge a little over a month ago. We were all very sad but concerned about his cage mate who had never been alone. After allowing him time to...

My pig is not quite a year old, and has recently (the past few months) developed a nipping habit when she is picked up and held for lap time. Otherwise she's very social and sweet, and loves being petted frequently in her cage. In your lap she seems relaxed and happy with her feet kicked out...

I have a female guinea pig who is almost a year old and she is biting me whenever i stroke her near her tummy. She lives on her own and has never had babies. Is it just the time of year (being spring) or something else?

Hello. I'm a new pig mom and I took in a very young pig (He's roughly 2 months old. When he came to me his umbilical cord scab was still present) who became really sick due to the situation he was in before he came to live with me. Fortunately he is getting better. I've been hand feeding him the...

I just introduced two boars to each other tonight. Momo approached totoro making happy squeaking noises, but then stretched out and made these intense vibrating/rumbling noises and rubbed his body all over totoro. Totoro didn't really run but jumped around a little (couldn't tell if it was...

Hiya! I noticed that every time I have lap-time with S'mores, she'll sit on my lap for about one minute while I pet her, and then scramble up my shirt and onto my shoulder. She burrows into my hair. She will nip the back of my neck, although she rarely does that and usually just moves around...

Hey. I have had 3 guinea pigs, all female, for 2 months now and they get along great for the most part, sometimes some bickering here and there, not unusual. So tonight after I clean their cage, one of them just starts acting really aggressive. She would chase after the other two, try to mount...

Hi! I adopted a guinea pig, Curtis the other day (close to 2 year old male) and him and Benny get along and interact very well, they hit it off almost immediately. The only concern I have ran across is how timid he is with human interaction. I don't know too much about his background other than...

I got my first guinea pig, Whinny in May 2015. I socialized her quite well and decided it was time for a new pig so she can have some company. I ended up getting another female but a really young new pig. My new pig, Peeka, is about 12 weeks old and after quarantining her, I introduced her to...

I have had my male guinea pig, Henry, since April and he is all I have. I can pet him in his cage with no problem at all, he actually quite likes that, and does not run away or become too skittish while he's in the cage - he actually rarely goes inside his house, he prefers to sleep right...

i have two male Guinea pigs and often times they walk past each other super slow and they do this growling noise and their bodies are all stretched out as they walk

Hi, I visit occasionally, but don't log in, I'm a lurker I guess. Anyway, sadly I return today to ask about my four pigs, Barry, Belle, Gracie and Betsy (feels weird to write those four names only :( ). Two days ago Pippa had some trouble jumping up onto a platform in the cage, its not that...

I just got a two new guinea's recently and one of them, Alice, is amazing, likes to explore, like bathing,likes to eat anything and likes to meet new people/animals (My dog loves guinea pigs just as much as me and has always snugged with them and is very gentle and cute with them). But the...

I have two female guinea pigs. When I first introduced them to each other, it was pretty clear that CC was the dominant guinea pig and Poppy was the submissive one. They have been getting along up until a couple of days ago when Poppy started to express dominance towards CC. Both of them have...

Hello. I have an around 4-5 year old guinea pig that has been alone for most her life, but not all. Most of my guinea pigs have always had an "older sister" when the older one dies after a while we get a new one and put them together. Being naive, we just let them play on the floor together and...