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Edit: title error, it's "wary" not ware. :( Sorry for the long post, but I'm a new guinea pigs owner and.. I don't know to how ask for advices for my current situation. About a month and a half ago I got my first Guinea Pig (male), which at the time was about two months old (or so I was told)...

A few months ago I got my two year old female Guinea pig, Macy, a companion. I got a 2 month old female, Penelope. Penelope was naturally submissive to Macy and was actually only comfortable when with Macy. Penelope is still extremely dependent on Macy (she doesn’t like to move too much if she...

Hi All So I have two boars Monty (3 years) and Simba (1.5 years) which I bonded around Christmas time. They have been very good since then - next to no dominance behaviours whatsoever and have lived peacefully together. Yesterday evening around 8pm Monty was suddenly being aggressive (just...

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 all. I'm completely new to forums and guinea pigs too, so I hope I'm posting in the right place. We have a 14/15 week old male pig, who we have hhad since 3rd dec. We bought for our 5 year old. Hes a house pig, and is very spoilt. Although he is really relaxed around us all and is very...

Hi, So I have 3 male Guinea pigs two of them were from the same litter and I got the third a month later. They were all getting along fine until the two brothers started being aggressive toward each other about a week ago which I kept an eye on and when I came home one day the one had bitten the...

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...