Niki
Senior Guinea Pig
The bachelor boys have been grazing today, Huxley, Hamish, Arthur, Fitz, Howie & Toddie. I left them for approx 20 mins & when i got back there were clumps of hair all over. :o
The outcome; Arthur had a mouth full of blood which i've determined as being Hamish's. Arthur has a tiny cut to the inside of his lip.
Hamish has a slash down the side of his right cheek, a deep slash/hole on the front right side of his face, a graze down his left lip, a bite on his back & 1 nail totally missing from his left front foot.
I've bathed them both in salt water & given Hamish a bit of Baytril.
I cannot believe what Arthur's done, last week he'd had a go at Wilbur but Wilbur was a feisty boy too but Hamish is a lover not a fighter.
I've also split Arthur from Fitz; over the past few days "something's" been different with Fitz, i can't quite put my finger on it but he's seemed very subdued. Do piggies get a "taste for blood?"
Have i done the right thing splitting the boys or would Arthur not attack Fitz just because he's attacked Hamish?
The outcome; Arthur had a mouth full of blood which i've determined as being Hamish's. Arthur has a tiny cut to the inside of his lip.
Hamish has a slash down the side of his right cheek, a deep slash/hole on the front right side of his face, a graze down his left lip, a bite on his back & 1 nail totally missing from his left front foot.
I've bathed them both in salt water & given Hamish a bit of Baytril.
I cannot believe what Arthur's done, last week he'd had a go at Wilbur but Wilbur was a feisty boy too but Hamish is a lover not a fighter.
I've also split Arthur from Fitz; over the past few days "something's" been different with Fitz, i can't quite put my finger on it but he's seemed very subdued. Do piggies get a "taste for blood?"
Have i done the right thing splitting the boys or would Arthur not attack Fitz just because he's attacked Hamish?