dominance

This morning I felt I had to temporarily seperate the pigs with a divider. Yesterday Beans appeared to have came into a particularly strong season and was pestering Toast quite a bit, but I left them to it. However, this morning, Beans was being very forceful and relentless trying to mount...

Hi, I've had my guinea pig for just over a month now and he is quite bonded to me recently he has started calling out if I'm out of my room for an hour or two working on the computer. My parents have also noticed this behaviour and agree he needs a friend, however he is quite young and I keep...

Hi all, I rescued two piggies, Charlie and Alfie, 3 year old brothers a few days ago. Whenever we visited them at the sanctuary Alfie (the smaller of the two) came out, was more inquisitive, braver, and came up to us. When we got home they explored their cage (1mx1m) and seemed okay. I remove...

Hi, I am a new guinea pig owner, have had my newest furry friend for just over a month now. I've noticed some odd behaviour. I have a young Abyssinian boar, who's name is Keiko. Keiko always seems to tilt his head up, as if he's craning to look at the ceiling, though theres nothing interesting...

Hi all, It's been a while but boar bonding is new to me and it can be really difficult to watch so I just wanted to find a bit of support really! About 5 months ago I adopted two 'bonded' boars (litter brothers apparently) and Rebel and Warner have been a delight. They were around 4 months at...

Hi there. I wonder if anyone could help me at all. Two weeks ago I bought two GPs', both boys which were 'hutch mates'. To start with the boys were really friendly and the big one looked after the little one. However, they both will never come out of their hut unless they think I am not in...

Hi, I’m the owner of 5 lovely piggies, 2 boys (Basil and Frankie), aged about 13/14 months and 3 girls (Dora, Daphne and Gwen), aged around 2 years. I was wondering if anyone could help me? I adopted the boys when they were around 2 months old. They were already bonded and have always got along...

i have two female guinea pigss around 3 years old (supposedly sisters) and one has been very dominant(pie) over the other one(pickle) and is starting to hurt the other pig(pickle) so i have come here for advice on weather to separate them? should i separate them, we have a spare cage(c&c) for if...

Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum. I own five young male guinea pigs. Two of them, I just adopted yesterday. And since I adopted them, two of my older guinea pigs have been fighting non-stop! One of them even managed to draw blood overnight. I have separated them for now and am taking the...

Hey guys! I'm going on three years with my cuddle bug, Snowflake, and I'm finally financially prepared to take on a companion for her. However, I wanted some reassurance on my plans. When I got Snowflake, my younger sister also got a piggy of her own, Patches, and the two of them have always...

I've read through a lot of the threads and I'm still unsure. I introduced a neutered boar to my sows yesterday. It all went really well (they have been next to each other for 6 weeks so smells will be familiar). The boar, Rufus, is still bothering the girls with a lot rumble strutting and...

Hi everyone, So my three guinea pigs have been living together happily for over a year now, I have a neutered boar and two sows and they're all siblings. Yesterday the boar started chasing and trying to hump one of the sows, clover, he hasn't done this in a while but it's just normal so I left...

I have had my guineapigs less than a week but yesterday their dominant behavior with each other has got worse, they know kick each other out of the bed, so i put a new one but they still go into the beds together then eventually one will kick the other out. They lunge at each other more and have...

Hi, Havent posted for a while. I have had scooby and Barnie for 1 year 4 months. I cant work out who is the dominant one. Scooby often shows the signs by mounting Barnie and rubble stutting around him but when food (veggies) is involved Barnie will take food off Scooby or if I put my hand...

My baby boars have easily slipped into their dominant and submissive roles, Hannibal is very content to let Batista climb on him and generally take charge and assert himself, and Batista loves being the top dog. They also seem to be very good at sharing, they like to sleep together and...

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...

Hi everyone, My 2 guinea pigs always got along perfectly fine. One has been sick (Pig) and can't move much, so i separated them for about a month over the summer because I was scared the non sick one (Percy) was too boisterous, Pig was squealing a lot and I was worried he could be getting...

Okay, so yesterday I got to guinea pigs that were from the same place. They were from the same cage. The first couple of hours home they seemed thankful to have each other, but today they started acting different. They started slighly nipping each other (NOT to the point where it draws blood)...