Hi all,
don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about this personality trait at all haha! But, ever since I got my trio of Guinea Pigs, a neutered boar (around 3yo) and two sows (around 2yo), the girls have been petrified, hiding constantly, and only have just started to come out of their shell (wheeking, etc..) whereas the neutered boar seems like he is immune to fear - almost as if he doesn't have any survival instinct? For example, whenever there's a loud sudden noise, he doesn't hide, and ever since he has came back from the shelter I got him from, he hasn't hid. Ever since I first saw him at the adoption centre (which made me want to adopt this trio in particular) he would run up to your hand for pets - letting you stroke his whole body without running away, but the girls seem to be entirely different to this lol. I really feel lucky to have a Guinea Pig which is so comfortable around me without any influence from my side of things, but I was just wondering - has anyone else had an experience like this? We haven't had these pigs for long (only about 3 weeks) and I heard it would be quite a tedious process to tame them, which the girls are proving to be entirely true but as time goes on, are warming up. Thanks for reading this silly post and I'd love to hear about everyone else's experiences with taming their pigs.![hug :hug: :hug:](/./tgpfimages/smilies/hug_zps353845aa.gif)
don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about this personality trait at all haha! But, ever since I got my trio of Guinea Pigs, a neutered boar (around 3yo) and two sows (around 2yo), the girls have been petrified, hiding constantly, and only have just started to come out of their shell (wheeking, etc..) whereas the neutered boar seems like he is immune to fear - almost as if he doesn't have any survival instinct? For example, whenever there's a loud sudden noise, he doesn't hide, and ever since he has came back from the shelter I got him from, he hasn't hid. Ever since I first saw him at the adoption centre (which made me want to adopt this trio in particular) he would run up to your hand for pets - letting you stroke his whole body without running away, but the girls seem to be entirely different to this lol. I really feel lucky to have a Guinea Pig which is so comfortable around me without any influence from my side of things, but I was just wondering - has anyone else had an experience like this? We haven't had these pigs for long (only about 3 weeks) and I heard it would be quite a tedious process to tame them, which the girls are proving to be entirely true but as time goes on, are warming up. Thanks for reading this silly post and I'd love to hear about everyone else's experiences with taming their pigs.
![hug :hug: :hug:](/./tgpfimages/smilies/hug_zps353845aa.gif)