Boar trying to escape

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Hello all, I have a boar, Gilbert. He's a very naughty brat to his cage mate but they still love one another.
The problem is... I used to have them downstairs in a CC that was one cage on top of the other. they were completely fine.

I came home one day to find my parents had put them back in their much too small cages. I managed to get them back into CC as you can see here in the background

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Now the problem is, since that photo I've now put the other two piggies (Gilbert is the one on my lap in that photo) ^ in a CC cage the same size as that one. There is a black piece of Correx between the two cages so they cannot see one another.

The problem is Gilbert has been determined to get into their cage. I hear him at night with the metal in his teeth shaking it back and forth REALLY hard trying to get to them. The other 3 boars aren't bothered at all (his cage mate and his neighbours) but Gilbert is a very dominant piggie.

Now I'm really not sure what to do. He managed to somehow get the two grids out of the grid connecter which I then put back together and added another grid connector on the top so he can no longer open it.

He's not doing it ALL the time, he just does it a few times a day for some reason.

Please help? I don't have any room to put them anywhere else except the living room and my parents refuse to let me have them downstairs.

We ARE looking to move home soon so I can get them a space a bit further away but until then I'm not sure what to do. I'm just really worried about Gilbert's teeth with how badly he's trying to rattle the cage bars biting on them to get to the other 2.
 
If the new ones are boars he could be trying to be dominant over them otherwise he could just be nosey. Imagine having a new neighbour and only being able to hear them over a 6ft fence :)
 
They aren't new though. I've had them since last year. He's never acted this way before. I'm just not sure whats up with them. I think he might be trying to be the dom of all 3 as the other two don't seem to act very dom. I'm still trying to figure out which one is the dominant so maybe he has picked up on that and is trying to be the top of all 3?
 
How long have they been back in these cages for?

If it isnt long, I would try to secure the grids (cabel ties is my best suggestion there) For now and wait to see if it settles down (as they have been disrupted) In the long term though, I'm not sure And I hope someone else will have the answer!
 
remove the grids and replace them with clear plexiglass. make sure the plexiglass is tall enough so the pigs cant escape. move the cages as close together as they can be. now it will seem as though there is no walls and your problem is fixed.
 
Connie said:
How long have they been back in these cages for?

If it isnt long, I would try to secure the grids (cabel ties is my best suggestion there) For now and wait to see if it settles down (as they have been disrupted) In the long term though, I'm not sure And I hope someone else will have the answer!
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It hasn't been too long. I'd say about ... 3 to 4 weeks maybe. The younger boys have had the cage their a few weeks longer as I had to tidy the room to make it bigger to fit the other two in. They did watch from their cage though a few feet higher and watch them in there.

But since I've moved them down into the CC is when it started. I hope it settles. I'm worried about his teeth.
 
gpmomma said:
remove the grids and replace them with clear plexiglass. make sure the plexiglass is tall enough so the pigs cant escape. move the cages as close together as they can be. now it will seem as though there is no walls and your problem is fixed.
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Wouldn't that upset them more as they would try to get at one another?

I did test them by putting them on the floor whilst the other two were in the cage but Gilbert just tried to get at them so I put up some pictures to block his view and he stopped. This was about 1-2 weeks before I made their CC
 
So previously, they were in stacked C & C's, then your parents put them into thier old cages, and now they have been moved back into C&C but its now side by side? (sorry, I was confused lol) If so, you could always just stack them again...
 
Connie said:
So previously, they were in stacked C & C's, then your parents put them into thier old cages, and now they have been moved back into C&C but its now side by side? (sorry, I was confused lol) If so, you could always just stack them again...
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Yes exactly. :)

Well the stacked CC kept falling apart and the piggies weren't helping by pulling up the floor and things. XD I decided being on the floor was safer and it was a lot easier to clean them both that way.
 
Well he didn't do it last night that I heard but I'd still like advice on this.

Should I make their cage a foot smaller width wise just to stop him being so close to the other ones cage? It'd make it 3 by 2... is that too small?
 
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