Constant purring?

[gpmomma]

My males wont stop purring until I turn off the lights for bed. I introduced my baby piggie, Peanut, who is two months old to my other piggie, Latte, who is one year old today. And Latte wont stop following Peanut until he gets a good long sniff of Peanut all over. Latte is the one who wont stop purring and Peanut wont stop squeaking. They haven't done much else that worries me other than escaping the mini cage I put them in for 15 minutes and wiping their buts on the floor. Other wise they're the perfect for each other. Can I have an explanation? Also the purring is the long purring while vibrating/slight hip swaying. And yes, I've checked, they're both males. I also leave at seven in the morning so I need answers quick!

 

[twiams]

Well, the purring is probably just a dominance sign to show he owns that area.
and the squeaking is often to do with the less dominant basically saying don't hurt me to show he's not trying to be dominant back. If that makes sense ?
How long have they been together ?
I'm sure it will calm down soon but it may take time. Latte sounds like he's just trying to make sure Peanut is aware this is his cage !
Have they got a large cage with a couple of hiding spaces so they can have there own space and leave each other alone ?

 

[lauraboara]

The purring with hip swaying - some people call it rumble strutting or rumbling means that Latte is ahem quite keen on Peanut but it sounds pretty normal boy stuff. As twiams says, Latte is establishing that he is the boss and Peanut squeaking is saying 'i am little, I know you are the boss'. A teddy in the cage with them may help - Latte may divert some of his amorous/dominance displays to the teddy?

http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76162

This thread might be worth a read as it is about various boar behaviours and there is another 'sticky' thread about dominance at the start of the behaviour section

 

[gpmomma]

They have been together since 1:00 p.m. yesterday. There was no purring/squeaking last night. Should I keep them in there together because I will be gone all day. Latte seems to have calmed down and is sharing stuff with a minimum of purring. They are in a 2x4 right now but I'm upgrading it to a 3x4 tommarow. Should I keep them in there for the day?

 

[gpmomma]

There is now 2 awake piggies in the cage, 2 stuffed animals, a lot less purring, less squeaking, and is that popcorning?

 

[gpmomma]

Leaving

 

[Wiebke]

it takes several days for newly introduced guinea pigs to sort out the new hierarchy, but eventually things should calm down again. Rumblestrutting (hips swaying when purring) is mild dominance behaviour.

 

[gpmomma]

I just got home, so I cleaned the cage and checked the piggies' bodies to make sure everything went well. No fights that I could see, but they did seem a bit annoyed. That's when I cleaned the cage. They were both popcorning together as they followed each other around the cage. Things are starting to calm down, as there is only a little bit of purring. I think Peanut just likes to talk because even when they aren't near each other he squeaks. There is also a little bit of but sniffing.