Remington18!
New Born Pup
Hello!
I’ve been trying to bond a 8 month old and a year old piggy. Both males. My year old piggy picked out his partner at the rescue and have been living side by side for about 2 months. We’ve been doing swaps with them in the cages and having veggie time outside of the cage with no issues.
Yesterday we started a bonding session on the floor in a playpen which was successful with two hides overnight. This morning I sanitised their cage, bars, base, and fresh hides and transferred them into it. They were fine for a few hours today. Until around 6:30pm (went into the cage at 10 am) 8 month old walked out of the hide to get hay & my year old chased the 8 month old aggressively and ripped hair out, chased him back into the tunnel on the other side of the cage after ripping some hair out and then left him alone. He did bleed a little from his hair being pulled out. Rescue told me I moved too quickly with the bond but it’s been 2 months of side by side living, cage & belonging swaps. I feel bad because the 8 month old really wants to be with the year old, but the year old is just aggressively chasing him back into houses.
What do you guys think? Am I in the wrong? I’ve never waited as long to bond as I did this? Was it too soon? The cage is a 2x4, the same size as all my other paired males are in.
They’re right now back to side by side living as I don’t want the younger boy getting beat up for coming out to eat.
I can’t seem to attach the video from my camera but picture 1 year old in a twig tunnel, 8 month old got water and was walking over to the hay when the 1 year old darted out and actively trying to bite him, which pulled out a chunk of hair, and ran him around the cage twice until he went into the 3 entrance hide then laid outside of the hide the 8 month old ran into.
I’ve been trying to bond a 8 month old and a year old piggy. Both males. My year old piggy picked out his partner at the rescue and have been living side by side for about 2 months. We’ve been doing swaps with them in the cages and having veggie time outside of the cage with no issues.
Yesterday we started a bonding session on the floor in a playpen which was successful with two hides overnight. This morning I sanitised their cage, bars, base, and fresh hides and transferred them into it. They were fine for a few hours today. Until around 6:30pm (went into the cage at 10 am) 8 month old walked out of the hide to get hay & my year old chased the 8 month old aggressively and ripped hair out, chased him back into the tunnel on the other side of the cage after ripping some hair out and then left him alone. He did bleed a little from his hair being pulled out. Rescue told me I moved too quickly with the bond but it’s been 2 months of side by side living, cage & belonging swaps. I feel bad because the 8 month old really wants to be with the year old, but the year old is just aggressively chasing him back into houses.
What do you guys think? Am I in the wrong? I’ve never waited as long to bond as I did this? Was it too soon? The cage is a 2x4, the same size as all my other paired males are in.
They’re right now back to side by side living as I don’t want the younger boy getting beat up for coming out to eat.
I can’t seem to attach the video from my camera but picture 1 year old in a twig tunnel, 8 month old got water and was walking over to the hay when the 1 year old darted out and actively trying to bite him, which pulled out a chunk of hair, and ran him around the cage twice until he went into the 3 entrance hide then laid outside of the hide the 8 month old ran into.