lauryn1289
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi, so one of my boys Ollie is truly driving me up the wall with the incessant bar biting. Him and his friend Eggs live separately in the same cage just divided, they both have 3x3 to themselves so 6x6 total and because of the (DIY) formation, there’s 3 completely bare cubes they call fully see and interact with eachother through. The initial bonding attempt failed but I have been meaning to try again now that Eggs is a bit older.
He used to live with another 2 piggies, one old boy Kip and the boy Bobby I adopted him with but they all fell out. I think he was a bar biter then too but not as bad as he is now. I’m almost certain it’s not health problems, Ollie is just an absolutely feral guinea pig. We joke that he’s a vicious dog in a guinea pig’s body but he truly is. He is the devil incarnate. He has a ridiculous amount of confidence for a guinea pig, he’s not unfriendly at all but he is a biter and he’s just generally really dominant and quick to anger even with humans. I love him for his VERY unique personality but the bar biting is really affecting my sleep and everything and I can’t imagine Eggs is happy to listen to it all the time either. He bites the bars so hard he literally moves the whole cage. He knocked a tooth out doing it before! My guess is it’s a dominance thing and he just wants to get in at Eggs. One of the last times he was at the vet he tried to bite the vet, peed all over the table and tried to fling Eggs’ carrier off the table. He’s truly not normal, he popcorns a lot too and gets really excited so he is a happy boy just a really annoying one
He has hideys, I get them nibbling sticks, he has a tunnel, he has a bridge, plenty of hay etc but nothing seems to distract him for long enough. Has anyone dealt with this or found a way to help?
Also, I’m not sure how old he is but I’m guessing maybe 3 and a half. Eggs is probably close to 2 years old.
He used to live with another 2 piggies, one old boy Kip and the boy Bobby I adopted him with but they all fell out. I think he was a bar biter then too but not as bad as he is now. I’m almost certain it’s not health problems, Ollie is just an absolutely feral guinea pig. We joke that he’s a vicious dog in a guinea pig’s body but he truly is. He is the devil incarnate. He has a ridiculous amount of confidence for a guinea pig, he’s not unfriendly at all but he is a biter and he’s just generally really dominant and quick to anger even with humans. I love him for his VERY unique personality but the bar biting is really affecting my sleep and everything and I can’t imagine Eggs is happy to listen to it all the time either. He bites the bars so hard he literally moves the whole cage. He knocked a tooth out doing it before! My guess is it’s a dominance thing and he just wants to get in at Eggs. One of the last times he was at the vet he tried to bite the vet, peed all over the table and tried to fling Eggs’ carrier off the table. He’s truly not normal, he popcorns a lot too and gets really excited so he is a happy boy just a really annoying one
He has hideys, I get them nibbling sticks, he has a tunnel, he has a bridge, plenty of hay etc but nothing seems to distract him for long enough. Has anyone dealt with this or found a way to help?
Also, I’m not sure how old he is but I’m guessing maybe 3 and a half. Eggs is probably close to 2 years old.