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Hannah_xx said:
Cool hidey house! :D
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yeah i got it from the rescue i got cookie from (brown and white piggie). they get them custom built with their company initials on it. guinea pig rescue ottawa or GPRO for short. great initials if you ask me. i think it was $110 CAD
 
That is a very cool hidey! They have their own rooms :D
Your piggies are very cute! What are their names?
 
Adelyn said:
That is a very cool hidey! They have their own rooms :D
Your piggies are very cute! What are their names?
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the all brown one is caramilk. i found her living in a bush in the park. caught her in a fishing net after luring her out of the bush with some pellets. the brown and white one is cookie. i got her at an adoption agency that does bonding sessions. unfortunately caramilk has become too much of a bully and i've extended their cage and divided it in half. cookie seems much happier not being bothered all the time. i think it has to do with the fact cookie just poops everywhere and caramilk seems very much little box trained. typical room mate problems lol :P. i am gonna get a piece of wood to divide the hidey on the inside so they can use it again.
 
superka said:
the all brown one is caramilk. i found her living in a bush in the park. caught her in a fishing net after luring her out of the bush with some pellets. the brown and white one is cookie. i got her at an adoption agency that does bonding sessions. unfortunately caramilk has become too much of a bully and i've extended their cage and divided it in half. cookie seems much happier not being bothered all the time. i think it has to do with the fact cookie just poops everywhere and caramilk seems very much little box trained. typical room mate problems lol :P. i am gonna get a piece of wood to divide the hidey on the inside so they can use it again.
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I'm sorry to hear you’ve had to separate them.
When you say bullying, what behaviours were actually occurring?
It will not be anything to do with the fact one poops everywhere (which is entirely normal) - piggies will not fall out because of that as it’s not something that bothers them. It will be because of issues in the hierarchy and dominance clashes
 
Piggies&buns said:
I'm sorry to hear you’ve had to separate them.
When you say bullying, what behaviours were actually occurring?
It will not be anything to do with the fact one poops everywhere (which is entirely normal) - piggies will not fall out because of that as it’s not something that bothers them. It will be because of issues in the hierarchy and dominance clashes
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caramilk would rumble strut on cookie non stop 24/7 and not allow her anywhere she was. if she was in the hidey she would rumble strut and mount cookie over and over till she would go sit in the feed box.... till she wanted to eat. then same thing there forcing her into the hidey. she couldnt sit down for 10 minutes. factor in the whole "what are you doing? i wanna do that" mentality and it was getting bad. cookies much more active around her side of the cage now.
Also i think their was a water bottle war going on cause since separating them i went form changing the 2 bottles twice a day to once a day.... they'd both drink out of one bottle till it was empty and then with the after noon "drought" happened they would go extra hard on the second bottle till it was empty trying to take as much water from the other as possible.

Also I was mostly making a joke about the roommate part.
 
And was that sustained or just when caramilk was in season (which would be normal and not bullying)?
It may be bullying which is a sustained set of behaviours ( tends to be subtle in sows) but can result in weight loss and depression, withdrawal in the bullied pig.
If Caramilk is over two years old and behaving extra dominant, seeming like she is constantly in season, then it’s a good idea to have that checked by a vet as that kind of sustained dominance behaviour outside of being in season can be a sign of ovarian cysts (and then once medical issues such as cysts are ruled out (a change in behaviour should be checked by a vet for a medical angle first), looking into it being a bullying issue)
 
Piggies&buns said:
And was that sustained or just when caramilk was in season (which would be normal and not bullying)?
It may be bullying which is a sustained set of behaviours ( tends to be subtle in sows) but can result in weight loss and depression, withdrawal in the bullied pig.
If Caramilk is over two years old and behaving extra dominant, seeming like she is constantly in season, then it’s a good idea to have that checked by a vet as that kind of sustained dominance behaviour outside of being in season can be a sign of ovarian cysts (and then once medical issues such as cysts are ruled out (a change in behaviour should be checked by a vet for a medical angle first), looking into it being a bullying issue)
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i have no clue what her age is... found her in the bush. was in that bush anywhere from a 1-4 months i have had her checked with the vet a couple of times.... he's not an expert on guinea pigs per say just that all the people with them in my city go to him... kinda forced on him type of thing. he's good but he has to look stuff up and call people back before. it was the rescue who told me about him. Also when i seperated them even caramilk was doing popcorns. so they both seem happier this way.. got the company but no real interaction. i will put them together in the smaller cleaning cage when i clean their main cage. gonna see how they react to each other when i do
 
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