constant rumble strutting!

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the past few days, norah the smaller of the two sows has been constant wiggling her little bum and dancing in front of honey. all i can hear is her rumbling away, she'l get right up close to honey face to face, and then honey will lunge, and norah will jump away and squeak like SHES been attacked, she is such a drama queen!

theres a definite tension in the cage atm.

the girls have never been best of friends, they sit in their seperate little pigloos, and theres occasional commotion. i cant work out whose the dominant one, norahs younger and smaller, but shes the rumble strutter, honeys the larger slower quieter one, but can be abit moody at norah i guess she finds her quite annoying.

theres never been a serious fight, just a bit of bickering.

but when they're out having a run around in the hallway, they explore nose to tail, and wont leave each others side, they are a proper little attack team.

i suppose norahs just going through a hormonal teenage phase and throwing her weight around. I was told norah, who is a short haired would be more dominant over honey, whose long haired as its in their nature.

but is this rumble strutting possibly stressing honey, should they be seperated for the night to calm down, or a herbal bath?

wish i could get a video of it, but everytime i appear they stop as if nothings happened!

all advice appreciated!
 
She could just be in season. My girls seem to have some that are stronger than others. The rumbling can go on for days!
 
I agree - it looks like your girl has come into season; at that age they can be quite hormonal and the rumblestrutting can go on for some time occasionally. Please do not worry; they'll be perfectly OK again afterwards!
 
I would guess she is in heat and the behaviour should subside once her hormones settle again (and then begin again in a couple of weeks!) Some piggies seem to get the guinea pig version of PMS... my pig Frenzy would rumblestrut around whenever she was in heat. It was noticeable because she was not a dominant pig, she was very meek and kind of nervous, so it was very out of character for her and the change in behaviour was very noticeable. Her cagemate (the dominant pig) used to get irritated with her and chase her away!
 
and also, why do they flip round and ram their bum into the other ones face? lol, its like a bum war? very odd. hilairious though!

brought norah out yesterday to read her the riot act. theres only one stroppy woman in this house and that would be me! she calmed down and wall all full of licks for her mummy. lovely.

oh they're bickering again now. think norahs trying to make up, but honeys still mad for being picked on.... women!
 
My girls do this constantly when in season. They've just come on today as well and already there is lots of rumbling and wiggling I can tell straight away. They should calm down within the next few days.
 
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