Superpiggies
Junior Guinea Pig
Hey everyone,
I'm soon wanting to try to put my guinea pigs, Oskar and Woody (Boars), back together, and I have a few questions about their behaviour. First, i just wanted to say their background, just in case that kind of, well, helps. :-) When we first got our guinea pigs, they were together all the time, in the same cage, playing each other and eating together. One christmas, we had no one to take care of them, and my dad asked a pet shop. And they said that they took care of animals, of course for A LOT of money. So we did that, blah blah blah, and when we got back, everything was wrong. They were fighting and fighting (Not too violent with blood), all the time, and of course we had to separate them. And to add on to that, they got mange, because the the pet shop weren't so bothered about paying attention to hygiene, and we had to scrub the WHOLE cage down, to get rid of any gerns/bacteria.
Maybe about 8 months later, Woody got around blind with cataract. The vet said he was quite sure that he had inherited this from his parents. After this, Woody was much more happy to be petted, as he liked it when he wasn't alone and he was more willing to have a friend. We tried to put them back together, and it made quite a bit of progress. Woody is still a but naughty and mounts and scratches Oskar. They could eat together, nibble grass in the sun together, and sometimes sit in the same Pigwam!
Now we are in the present, and this is what I'm a bit unsure about. So, they still do fight a bit, pretty normal, but they do stop after about a minute. But i just dont understand, and it is so cute in a way, that when their floor of the cage is done, we put that pig in, and thats usually Woody that goes in the cage first. And then, the next thing we know, is that Oskar is running around, looking for Woody, squeaking really loudly, and then Woody would be squeaking after him. Then Oskar would go up to the cage, and he would stand on his back paws, with his front paws on the cage bars to Woody's floor of the cage, and they would be sniffing each other and squeaking the roof off!
And we once took Woody out, And they were playing around and popcorning! What on earth.. 
So, again, i was wondering if this was a good sign? But why do they still fight? And why does Woody's eyesight effect their relationship?
Superpiggies and the boys xx
I'm soon wanting to try to put my guinea pigs, Oskar and Woody (Boars), back together, and I have a few questions about their behaviour. First, i just wanted to say their background, just in case that kind of, well, helps. :-) When we first got our guinea pigs, they were together all the time, in the same cage, playing each other and eating together. One christmas, we had no one to take care of them, and my dad asked a pet shop. And they said that they took care of animals, of course for A LOT of money. So we did that, blah blah blah, and when we got back, everything was wrong. They were fighting and fighting (Not too violent with blood), all the time, and of course we had to separate them. And to add on to that, they got mange, because the the pet shop weren't so bothered about paying attention to hygiene, and we had to scrub the WHOLE cage down, to get rid of any gerns/bacteria.
Maybe about 8 months later, Woody got around blind with cataract. The vet said he was quite sure that he had inherited this from his parents. After this, Woody was much more happy to be petted, as he liked it when he wasn't alone and he was more willing to have a friend. We tried to put them back together, and it made quite a bit of progress. Woody is still a but naughty and mounts and scratches Oskar. They could eat together, nibble grass in the sun together, and sometimes sit in the same Pigwam!
Now we are in the present, and this is what I'm a bit unsure about. So, they still do fight a bit, pretty normal, but they do stop after about a minute. But i just dont understand, and it is so cute in a way, that when their floor of the cage is done, we put that pig in, and thats usually Woody that goes in the cage first. And then, the next thing we know, is that Oskar is running around, looking for Woody, squeaking really loudly, and then Woody would be squeaking after him. Then Oskar would go up to the cage, and he would stand on his back paws, with his front paws on the cage bars to Woody's floor of the cage, and they would be sniffing each other and squeaking the roof off!
And we once took Woody out, And they were playing around and popcorning! What on earth.. So, again, i was wondering if this was a good sign? But why do they still fight? And why does Woody's eyesight effect their relationship?
Superpiggies and the boys xx
