Curtis Cavies
Junior Guinea Pig
Hey there again.
Cool move that young man! She's beautiful, its hard to walk away from such beautiful little creatures. All my girl clan have all lived together. We got the first two with the third coming about a month to 5 weeks later. They pushed her out to my astonishment at the time because I thought they were large group animals and would all muck in. She stayed under the ramp downstairs In the two storey cage because they wouldn't let her join in. She got poorly, cold, so she came in and got love, attention and extra cuddles from the human family. I moved the cage to a different area in the play room so she wasn't opposite a door for drafts and reintroduced them on neutral territory, my living room floor! After that all went well, till my son pulled the exact same trick on me in a pet store, falling in love with a beautiful chocolate and white girl with red eyes! Boys, tough aren't they? She wasn't alone though but she melted his heart enough for me to say, phone your Dad, ask him. Alas, having my daughter with me meant I got the 'well, if he can I should be able to!' routine. So I said if you both are I am as well! And so the next three came home, the 3 went to our first little clan of 6, a new shed purchased for living quarters and kitted out entirely for them and we've never looked back! Intro's went alright, stuck them all together in one made up cage to start with, with just a divider of mesh down the middle, so they could see and smell one another but not harm or bully.
The original 6 are sadly no longer with us. When we were down to four, we got four rescue, so we had 8! When we were down to four again this March, we got another 4 babies. Made mistake of going to a pet shop chain and couldn't walk out without them! Sadly, they all came infested heavily in mites and two have had recurring illnesses of one thing or another ever since. I never quarantined any of my previous lot as I was blissfully ignorant of the fact I was supposed to! Never had a minutes problem with any of them. But this new lot! So glad I decided weather was too cold, or all 8 would have had health issues. Just walked in today to find one of the new ones dead. Absolutely heart broken.
Best of luck with your girls. I hope they get along just fine. Helene.
( I said your cage set up was good and how pretty Nancy and your daughter were!)
Cool move that young man! She's beautiful, its hard to walk away from such beautiful little creatures. All my girl clan have all lived together. We got the first two with the third coming about a month to 5 weeks later. They pushed her out to my astonishment at the time because I thought they were large group animals and would all muck in. She stayed under the ramp downstairs In the two storey cage because they wouldn't let her join in. She got poorly, cold, so she came in and got love, attention and extra cuddles from the human family. I moved the cage to a different area in the play room so she wasn't opposite a door for drafts and reintroduced them on neutral territory, my living room floor! After that all went well, till my son pulled the exact same trick on me in a pet store, falling in love with a beautiful chocolate and white girl with red eyes! Boys, tough aren't they? She wasn't alone though but she melted his heart enough for me to say, phone your Dad, ask him. Alas, having my daughter with me meant I got the 'well, if he can I should be able to!' routine. So I said if you both are I am as well! And so the next three came home, the 3 went to our first little clan of 6, a new shed purchased for living quarters and kitted out entirely for them and we've never looked back! Intro's went alright, stuck them all together in one made up cage to start with, with just a divider of mesh down the middle, so they could see and smell one another but not harm or bully.
The original 6 are sadly no longer with us. When we were down to four, we got four rescue, so we had 8! When we were down to four again this March, we got another 4 babies. Made mistake of going to a pet shop chain and couldn't walk out without them! Sadly, they all came infested heavily in mites and two have had recurring illnesses of one thing or another ever since. I never quarantined any of my previous lot as I was blissfully ignorant of the fact I was supposed to! Never had a minutes problem with any of them. But this new lot! So glad I decided weather was too cold, or all 8 would have had health issues. Just walked in today to find one of the new ones dead. Absolutely heart broken.
Best of luck with your girls. I hope they get along just fine. Helene.
( I said your cage set up was good and how pretty Nancy and your daughter were!)
If in the future they started to get snippy with each other and you thought of making 3 into 4 it would be worth considering a neutered boar - when we lost Rocket the girls were quite catty with each other but bringing Eddie in calmed things down again.
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