katiejfreer
New Born Pup
Hi, I need help please!
We had a bonded pair of boar guinea pigs that we rehomed 2 years ago who are about 4.5 years. One of them has a cataract in one eye and possibly a 2nd developing in the other eye and our guinea pig loving vet thought that he would become completely blind at some point. She felt that he would be fine as long as he had other piggies to live with and were advised that it would probably be ok to introduce a pair of baby boars to keep him company as he is older if we lost his mate.
We unfortunately suddenly lost his mate a few weeks ago and have got 2 baby boars which appeared to be bonded when we got them. They are half brothers and were 12
Weeks and 10 weeks old when we got them 2
weeks ago. We introduced them all together and all initially seemed fine but the youngest one Ziggy has increasingly been strutting and annoying the other two and showing signs of asserting his dominance. Coco our elderly pig is annoyed by him but not really responding to Ziggy behaviour but he is really pestering Pickle the other little one and I’ve noticed this morning that Pickle has some scabs on his rump.
It always appears one sided with Ziggy chasing Pickle and Pickle seems withdrawn and doesn’t really move around the cage and hides himself in the corner. They are all still
Eating tho. Ziggy, never seems relax so wondering if equally he is stressed because he’s the smallest and youngest but he always positions himself in the middle of their cage and gets in everyone’s business .
They are in a large furplast cage 140x60 with multiple hides, tunnels etc. They usually go out into an outside run every day on the grass.
I really need advise on my options please and whether I should be removing one of the pigs or if I should give it more time etc . Ziggy and pickle came together (not sure how long they were bonded for before we got them) and they have been in all together for a week.
Any help greatly appreciated. We just wanted to give poor Coco some company without leaving a single piggie when we lost him as he is a decent age .
Thx
We had a bonded pair of boar guinea pigs that we rehomed 2 years ago who are about 4.5 years. One of them has a cataract in one eye and possibly a 2nd developing in the other eye and our guinea pig loving vet thought that he would become completely blind at some point. She felt that he would be fine as long as he had other piggies to live with and were advised that it would probably be ok to introduce a pair of baby boars to keep him company as he is older if we lost his mate.
We unfortunately suddenly lost his mate a few weeks ago and have got 2 baby boars which appeared to be bonded when we got them. They are half brothers and were 12
Weeks and 10 weeks old when we got them 2
weeks ago. We introduced them all together and all initially seemed fine but the youngest one Ziggy has increasingly been strutting and annoying the other two and showing signs of asserting his dominance. Coco our elderly pig is annoyed by him but not really responding to Ziggy behaviour but he is really pestering Pickle the other little one and I’ve noticed this morning that Pickle has some scabs on his rump.
It always appears one sided with Ziggy chasing Pickle and Pickle seems withdrawn and doesn’t really move around the cage and hides himself in the corner. They are all still
Eating tho. Ziggy, never seems relax so wondering if equally he is stressed because he’s the smallest and youngest but he always positions himself in the middle of their cage and gets in everyone’s business .
They are in a large furplast cage 140x60 with multiple hides, tunnels etc. They usually go out into an outside run every day on the grass.
I really need advise on my options please and whether I should be removing one of the pigs or if I should give it more time etc . Ziggy and pickle came together (not sure how long they were bonded for before we got them) and they have been in all together for a week.
Any help greatly appreciated. We just wanted to give poor Coco some company without leaving a single piggie when we lost him as he is a decent age .
Thx