Boar Dominance or just playing?

[cookieandsprinkles]

Hi so as some of you may have spotted, on Thursday I adopted 2 boars from an unexpected pregnancy in my friend's guinea pigs. They have been very shy and spend most of their time snuggling in their wee house. Since day 1 they have been making a cooing sound a bit like a pigeon. . .

Today is the first day the boys have been out and about in their cage whilst I have been walking around the room as usually when they hear me they run and hide.

Sprinkles is running in wild circuits of the cage and Cookie is just kind of standing in the food bowl watching him. Earlier they were both running in and out of their house bopping the back of it and then running back out.

I don't think it's aggression or dominance but I want to check if they are just playing and whether this is normal during the settling in period?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Meg xx

 

[cookieandsprinkles]

Anyone? They are still acting funny running around I dunno if it's just playing or settling in or what :\

 

[AbiS]

Sounds to me like they are just playing.

My 2 have mad 5 minutes a few times a day. They start running all over the run, into hideys, out of hideys etc. They even look like they are playing Tag at times - usually if one wants to play and the other doesn't he gets a quick nudge in the side.

This link might be of use to you:

http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/...Displays-or-Fighting&highlight=boar+dominance

 

[kidspiggies4]

My four boars are always running about playing. Gets loud sometimes. Just keep an eye on it, I'm sure they are just playing. X

 

[MerryPip]

Sounds like your boys have got the zoomies! My lads love to run around, bash into everything, popcorn like mad and then start all over again. It's entirely normal and hilarious to watch!

 

[cookieandsprinkles]

Merrypip that is what I thought and was laughing but then realised uh-oh I dunno when it turns out to be serious lol! Glad to have this cleared up though