Hi,
I am a guinea pig owner since six years back when I bought my two first piggies, who were sisters. One fell terribly ill when they were only about two years old and we had to put her away. To give our remaining piggy a friend we bought a new one who was only a couple weeks old and also a female. Her and my first guinea pig got along nicely without ever really any problems. Now, as the older guinea pig has past away because of age, we once again looked for a new companion for the younger piggy, who is now two. We decided to buy two instead of one and ended up with two lovely sisters who were about the same age.
Before introducing them, we read up on how to go about it best and kept them separate for a while. Then we put them together on a spacious floor with lots of greens to eat. Things were going nicely so we soon put them in the same cage, two at once to start with. Even this was going well, they were sharing houses and all, but then the fighting started. I am used guinea pigs chasing each other, small biting and everything else from my previous experiences but they were getting into a ball fighting each other, ripping of hair and biting hard. Obviously, we separated them and decided to keep them apart for a few days to calm down. But once we put them together again the fighting just resumed. It started of innocently with just a bit of chasing but soon they were in a ball again.
We have separated them and put them back together over and over now with only some success with one of the new piggies who now tolerates our original piggy.
I am at a loss as to what to do though. They are always fight when they are in the same cage, and often also do so even when they have lots of room out on the floor.
Please give me some advice as to what to do! It’s a very stressful process and I only want the best for all my piggies.
Thanks in advance,
- Elsa
I am a guinea pig owner since six years back when I bought my two first piggies, who were sisters. One fell terribly ill when they were only about two years old and we had to put her away. To give our remaining piggy a friend we bought a new one who was only a couple weeks old and also a female. Her and my first guinea pig got along nicely without ever really any problems. Now, as the older guinea pig has past away because of age, we once again looked for a new companion for the younger piggy, who is now two. We decided to buy two instead of one and ended up with two lovely sisters who were about the same age.
Before introducing them, we read up on how to go about it best and kept them separate for a while. Then we put them together on a spacious floor with lots of greens to eat. Things were going nicely so we soon put them in the same cage, two at once to start with. Even this was going well, they were sharing houses and all, but then the fighting started. I am used guinea pigs chasing each other, small biting and everything else from my previous experiences but they were getting into a ball fighting each other, ripping of hair and biting hard. Obviously, we separated them and decided to keep them apart for a few days to calm down. But once we put them together again the fighting just resumed. It started of innocently with just a bit of chasing but soon they were in a ball again.
We have separated them and put them back together over and over now with only some success with one of the new piggies who now tolerates our original piggy.
I am at a loss as to what to do though. They are always fight when they are in the same cage, and often also do so even when they have lots of room out on the floor.
Please give me some advice as to what to do! It’s a very stressful process and I only want the best for all my piggies.
Thanks in advance,
- Elsa
