Help!

Status
Not open for further replies.
Nicquita

Nicquita

Teenage Guinea Pig
Joined
Jul 9, 2009
Messages
547
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Location
East Midlands
well, Alfie is here, and he's a stunning little guy. he's been introduced in neutral territory with my girls, and they were fine for about an hour and a half. then my oldest girl, the previously dominant one, started acting weird. she keeps following Alfie around and he seems pretty terrified, making his 'go away' noise. he's strutted once aswell. i've been reading on cavyspirit whilst introducing, but i can't tell whether the 'intent to harm' is there, as Tiny lunged at Alfie, but didn't seriously try to bite him. i intervened out of pure terror by throwing a towel at them. Alfie is still in the box-house-hidey-hole that he was in, and Tiny is at the other end. they seem to be having a staring contest from across the cage at each other. now everything is deathly silent, and i'm not sure what i should do. my other two girls are fine, but Tiny is being so mardy...
 
Sounds very normal to me. I'd leave well alone for now and wait it out. How long have they been together for?

It usually takes a few days or more for them to settle in. As long as there is no serious fighting, blood etc it's usually fine.

Hard to wait it out but try - only intervene a proper attack, otherwise let them sort it out.
 
Lisajazz said:
Sounds very normal to me. I'd leave well alone for now and wait it out. How long have they been together for?

It usually takes a few days or more for them to settle in. As long as there is no serious fighting, blood etc it's usually fine.

Hard to wait it out but try - only intervene a proper attack, otherwise let them sort it out.
Click to expand...

i separated them for a little while, as Tiny 'nipped' Allie. not a serious bite, but grazed some skin off resulting in poor Allie bleeding (Allie is not Alfie, Allie is my white abyssinian).

i bathed them and completely redid their neutral cage. it has been scrubbed to the point of sterilising. they seem to have calmed down since i scared them silly with their bath. they're now all huddled together. i think i may be the new enemy :... i know that's the point, but still...

Alfie has been really good. he's not mounted anyone at all, he's just been interested in sniffing and food. it's Tiny that has been the problem ¬_¬

hopefully, it'll be okay now. i was waiting for a reply before i tried the bath thing, but i got too frazzled to wait too much after Allie got hurt :(

they've been together since around 2ish
 
Last edited:
Did Tiny bite Allie? Have they been living together previously?

I would assume he has been accepted and the reason Tiny bit Allie was to remind her she is still the boss. Thats my theory :))!
 
flintstones said:
Did Tiny bite Allie? Have they been living together previously?

I would assume he has been accepted and the reason Tiny bit Allie was to remind her she is still the boss. Thats my theory :))!
Click to expand...


Allie wouldn't need reminding. she's the most submissive piggle in the world. they've lived together with Parsley for the past 6 months,and have always been fine.

Allie just walked in front of Tiny and Tiny lunged at her. protective of the hay, the greedy little git. but she'd previously lunged at Alfie, and had been having a nose-off and making the helicopter noise at him. she got very wound up.

fortunately, i know from past experience that Tiny is the piggle with the most fear of baths, so she seems to have calmed down lots now, and they're all just chuttering about, talking to each other :) i hope it stays that way
 
The best way is to try and sit it out; there can be a couple of tight moments at first.

Leave them in neutral territory for as long as possible; i.e. all evening and if necessary over night until you can be reasonably sure that they have all settled down and have started to sort out the hierarchy, which can take a few days. As long as your boy will not contend for top space, he will probably be fine. Give it time and let them have dinner together, but in a way that every pig is able to have access to it without being theatened.

Make sure that you are there for when you finally put them in their permanent home, which should be thoroughly cleaned out and ideally be rearranged a bit in order to be "neutralised". You can get another bit of tense moments there, but you should be fine if they were OK on neutral ground.

Beware of intense teeth chattering at each other and fur standing on end - that will mean that a serious fight is imminent. A short and low teeth chattering means just a fairly forceful "stay away from me".

Best of luck!
 
Wiebke said:
The best way is to try and sit it out; there can be a couple of tight moments at first.

Leave them in neutral territory for as long as possible; i.e. all evening and if necessary over night until you can be reasonably sure that they have all settled down and have started to sort out the hierarchy, which can take a few days. As long as your boy will not contend for top space, he will probably be fine. Give it time and let them have dinner together, but in a way that every pig is able to have access to it without being theatened.

Make sure that you are there for when you finally put them in their permanent home, which should be thoroughly cleaned out and ideally be rearranged a bit in order to be "neutralised". You can get another bit of tense moments there, but you should be fine if they were OK on neutral ground.

Beware of intense teeth chattering at each other and fur standing on end - that will mean that a serious fight is imminent. A short and low teeth chattering means just a fairly forceful "stay away from me".

Best of luck!
Click to expand...

Tiny did that for a few minutes. a few minutes before she hurt Allie, though she'd been chattering at Alfie.

as said before, the bath seems to *** put Tiny back in her place. she's being all mopey and sulky whilst huddled against the other girls. Alfie is just puttering aroung by himself.

this is the angry pig noise
http://www.mgpr.org/MGPR/Angry Pig.htm

i'm just glad Allie is okay. she seems fine though. not even shaken up.
 
flintstones said:
Oh... Chattering, I would never relate that to a helicopter :)). I know the noise you mean though, I hate it!
Click to expand...

he actually sounds like a helicopter. i almost looked out of the window before i realised where the sound actually came from. it was really odd.

p.s. they all seem fine now, and i have some photos to put on stories and photographs :)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top