Freya1234
Teenage Guinea Pig
Hi all,
I’m opening this thread so I can have some reassurance throughout the bonding as I’ve only ever done one bonding with two males that went very well!
Following losing Smokey last week I managed to find 2 bonded girls at a local rescue for Winston and picked them up today. Winston is a 1y neutered boar, Rosie and syrup are the new girls who the rescue think are 2-3y. Rosie and Syrup both went to the rescue as they lost their companions and the rescue then bonded them together and they’ve now been bonded for about 3 weeks so still quite a new pairing. They are currently in a divided cage to allow the girls to get settled and through the bar interaction, as expected Winston who has been desperate for company all week has chewed and tugged at the divider as much as he can in his excitement, Rosie has been very nice and shown positive signs towards him. However I’m a bit concerned about Syrup who did lunge and nip at him a couple of times while he was chewing at the bars, when I picked up the girls the rescue also told me they’d noticed that syrup has started nipping Rosie’s bum if she has food she wants. Is this something I should be concerned about going forward with the bonding or is syrup just showing normal dominance behaviour?
P.s added a pigture of the new neighbours
I’m opening this thread so I can have some reassurance throughout the bonding as I’ve only ever done one bonding with two males that went very well!
Following losing Smokey last week I managed to find 2 bonded girls at a local rescue for Winston and picked them up today. Winston is a 1y neutered boar, Rosie and syrup are the new girls who the rescue think are 2-3y. Rosie and Syrup both went to the rescue as they lost their companions and the rescue then bonded them together and they’ve now been bonded for about 3 weeks so still quite a new pairing. They are currently in a divided cage to allow the girls to get settled and through the bar interaction, as expected Winston who has been desperate for company all week has chewed and tugged at the divider as much as he can in his excitement, Rosie has been very nice and shown positive signs towards him. However I’m a bit concerned about Syrup who did lunge and nip at him a couple of times while he was chewing at the bars, when I picked up the girls the rescue also told me they’d noticed that syrup has started nipping Rosie’s bum if she has food she wants. Is this something I should be concerned about going forward with the bonding or is syrup just showing normal dominance behaviour?
P.s added a pigture of the new neighbours