Lizzierse45
New Born Pup
Hi! I’m desperately seeking advice rn on bonding. To cut a long story short…
years ago I adopted a single Guinea pig from a rescue. Not knowing much at the time… I had no knowledge of said Guinea pig needing a companion but over a short amount of time I realised that he needed a friend. 2 years ago I went searching for a young boar to bond with my already older Guinea pig. However in doing so, I adopted a crazy Guinea pig lol I had no idea at the time just how hyperactive he was. When it came to the bonding process he kept trying to hump my older Guinea pig who seemed perfectly okay being alone. He began to show signs of aggression and I got scared so I separated them as to not cause any harm to my older pig. However last week my older Guinea pig passed of old age sadly. And now I have the chance and the space to double my cage size and finally get a companion pig for the younger crazy one. Not wanting to make the same mistakes again any advice will be greatly appreciated. I do have a few questions…
-lots of websites have told me that after the New Guinea pig and my Guinea pig have bonded and are friends that its important for them to move into a house that they both know and have at some point both lived in. However like I said above I currently have two separate cages stacked on top of one another, one is holding my current remaining Guinea pig and the other empty ready to house temporarily the new pig. My plan was to obviously keep them separate and do scent swapping and then let them meet gradually over time until they got alone then move them both into a xL cage together once bonded. I just brought a huge cage that I thought I had to do as I couldn’t bond two Guinea pigs and then put the pair back into one of the two cages that had been lived in by both of them as it would cause territorial fights. I’m confused now. How can I get these two Guinea pigs to happily live together in a new cage.
Any and all advice is welcome! Thank you![Red heart :heart: ❤️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2764.png)
-website that said about their new home needs to be a cage that they had both previously lived in…
https://www.pdsa.org.uk/pet-help-and-advice/looking-after-your-pet/small-pets/introducing-guinea-pigs#:~:text=But%20it's%20important%20to%20take,existing%20guinea%20pig(s).-
years ago I adopted a single Guinea pig from a rescue. Not knowing much at the time… I had no knowledge of said Guinea pig needing a companion but over a short amount of time I realised that he needed a friend. 2 years ago I went searching for a young boar to bond with my already older Guinea pig. However in doing so, I adopted a crazy Guinea pig lol I had no idea at the time just how hyperactive he was. When it came to the bonding process he kept trying to hump my older Guinea pig who seemed perfectly okay being alone. He began to show signs of aggression and I got scared so I separated them as to not cause any harm to my older pig. However last week my older Guinea pig passed of old age sadly. And now I have the chance and the space to double my cage size and finally get a companion pig for the younger crazy one. Not wanting to make the same mistakes again any advice will be greatly appreciated. I do have a few questions…
-lots of websites have told me that after the New Guinea pig and my Guinea pig have bonded and are friends that its important for them to move into a house that they both know and have at some point both lived in. However like I said above I currently have two separate cages stacked on top of one another, one is holding my current remaining Guinea pig and the other empty ready to house temporarily the new pig. My plan was to obviously keep them separate and do scent swapping and then let them meet gradually over time until they got alone then move them both into a xL cage together once bonded. I just brought a huge cage that I thought I had to do as I couldn’t bond two Guinea pigs and then put the pair back into one of the two cages that had been lived in by both of them as it would cause territorial fights. I’m confused now. How can I get these two Guinea pigs to happily live together in a new cage.
Any and all advice is welcome! Thank you
![Red heart :heart: ❤️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2764.png)
-website that said about their new home needs to be a cage that they had both previously lived in…
https://www.pdsa.org.uk/pet-help-and-advice/looking-after-your-pet/small-pets/introducing-guinea-pigs#:~:text=But%20it's%20important%20to%20take,existing%20guinea%20pig(s).-