fighting

I have had my four month old Monty for two months now. Him and Alan (approximately 18 months) had been getting on fine, a few fall outs but nothing too bad and no actual fighting. I got home from work today and they seemed to be fine, then the next thing I saw was them both, jumped about a foot...

At some point, my partner and I are going to take the pigs with us on a long weekend, requiring a minimum 5 hour train journey. I know they can do it, as I travelled that far to get them -- last time they were in a carrier lined with fleece, some hideys, and hay and cucumber. It may have helped...

The bond between my two 8-month-old boars has always been tenuous... while they wheek for each other when one is out the cage, they've never enjoyed one another's company. I know this is normal, but ever since I got them four months ago, one of my pigs has been bullying the other, chasing him...

okay so I recently adopted a rescue pig as a companion for my brown aby who's now hitting the dreadful teenage hormones and i can see his little boy parts starting to descend! Recently there's been a bit of mounting from him (there never was before) and they do these scary little..not sure what...

So my story goes, I have 9 pigs. 6 female and 3 male. All my females are or will be housed together in a roughly 20 square foot C&C cage. I then have two males housed together and my last one alone because he fought with both my other boys regardless. The two males housed together (Mocha and...

I have two male guinea pigs who were getting on fine until about four weeks ago when they started loudly teeth chattering at each other. It then progressed into one of them occasionally lunging at the other, before they both ran off. Usually when they're like this it's when they're having floor...

Hi all. So I noticed that my one boar (dipper) was acting strangely and started chasing my other boar (moonbeam) all around the cage. I then noticed that dipper was climbing on top of moonbeam in a way that looked like they were mating! Dipper then started laying down, walking a couple of steps...

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 have two pairs of male guinea pigs. To keep them distracted from getting excited over each other i've been recommended to buy a couple of soft toys to put in their hutches that might distract them from basically humping each other (sorry to be blunt!) I'm a bit nervous about which...

Hi, I have two 6 month old boars living together in a 5x2 c&c, two of everything in the cage - they have always bickered a lot - lots of teeth chattering, chasing, raised hackles, one of them rumble struts the other, and sometimes they launch themselves at each other which can result in small...

I'm having a crisis of conscience and finding it hard to decide what is best for me and my pigs. Initially, I bonded by two boars and they seemed very happy with each other. Archie the younger pig has established his dominance as the younger and the faster of the two. They spent a good few...

Unfortunately it seems it was a bit too good to be true. After about 3 weeks of my two boars getting along fine and dandy, tonight they have had a big ball-of-fur scrap in their play pen :no: I've separated them to calm down for now. They share a hutch but it's 2 levels and they tend to take a...

I own three male guinea-pigs consisting of two brothers and a half-brother. I've had them for over a year now, and they're around 12 - 13 months old. These guys have got on pretty well without any arguing or squabbles, but suddenly, out of nowhere, the half-brother has randomly turned on one of...

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...

Hi everyone! I have two 'rescue' boars which were bought from Pets At Home (yes I know, bad choice) about a week ago. They were in the rescue and adoption section because they were too aggressive to be houses with the younger piggies especially in the small enclosures they seem to have at the...

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...

ok i have had my girls for almost 2 years. they usually get along ok, never great, but lately wicca has been particularly aggressive, and by lately i mean on and off for two months. she has been rumblestrutting a lot (even tried to rumblestrut me), and chasing turtle around, and biting her bum...

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...

Around 4 weeks ago I bought three male guinea pigs from Pets at home, they were all a similar size so we assumed them to be a similar age. We've had three sets of guinea pigs before, the first we got with a rabbit which had to be seperated after a few hours after they had a fight, the next we...

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...