Humping Piggy

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Me and my boyfriend have a number of guinea pigs and we love them all, but there are two, they are both boars and get on splendidly but recently Zander has been persistantly humping another called Elvis and he makes terrible high pitched sounds. I took Elvis way from the commotion and hoped Zander would cool his jets but it did not happen as once he was placed back in Zander started rumbling and getting him into the corner and humping. Does anyone have any advice on what to do with this amourous young fellow? Could they explain why he is doing this to only this piggy he excercises with others and I don't have this problem!

P.S Elvis is defintely male... I have checked... Numerous times...
 
It's a dominance thing that you could potentially be making worse by removing Elvis away each time - it takes them back to square one. Do they have plenty space?
 
Yes you need to just keep them together, they will work the dominance out. It may take a while though. As long as they aren't fighting, don't worry. :)
 
I'm having the same problem with 2 of my boars who are newly bonded.as long as there is nofighting,leave them together to sort their dominance issues out.this is what I'm doing O0
 
Yup, I am having this problem with my adolescent 4month old Leo, he suddenly decided after months of bliss to start (ahem, pardon the phrase) head humping and chasing Pepe who's coming up two years old. How old are your boys? If either or both are under 1 it could be the stroppy teen stage. Of course we are coming into Spring as well, and I think the old male hormones start kicking in don't they! Can you give them more space, it may help? We are having a kind of truce at the moment with ours, and we are keeping our beady eyes on them, just to make sure!

The CCT have suggested pheremone boxes from the vets to help waft over them and calm them down I think it's supposed to neutralise all that testosterone - has anyone ever used these before and if so, do they help?
 
oooo those box things sound interesting!

merlin and heath are at a comprimise at the min, they avoid each when their in the cage ::) we had them out earlier and they were in a good mood and were cuddling together! put them back in the cage and merlin goes humping crazy ::)
 
I used to have a boar called Fuzzy Peg and he used to constantly hump his younger friends, mainly due to them being weened from their mam and smelling of girls.
I was recommended to put Vics on the bottoms of the new boys and a little bit on Fuzzy peg, it worked the trick, I introduced them and NO HUMPING! The Vics masked the smell of just weaned piglets. It may just have been first time luck but this was the only time I have ever had a humping problem most of time my boars will live together without any fuss.

I have never heard of pheremone boxes, are they specifically for cats or something? I have seen a feline plug in at the vet but I never looked to see what it was for.

Emma x
 
I wonder if thet cat plug in thing is the same one Vedra was talking about, I'm not sure, although next time I am at my vet's I will ask him.
 
okay you are all talking about humping males, but what about a humping female? when we got zoe, choloe soon became the dominant one, zoe is so laid back and gave in, choloe would hump zoe relentlessly, rattle rump wobblying etc. when choloe passed away we got jessie to keep zoe company. well now jessie is doing the exact same thing to poor zoe and zoe just takes it. if zoe rans away choloe would and jessie does chase her. they just don't let up on poor zoe. any suggestions on how to help poor zoe? zoe is 3 and a half and jessie 1 and a half. would the vicks work and if so how much do you use? any help would be appreciated. hugs and cuddles to you and your fur babies. :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
 
Personally Vicks is not something I would use. It's too strong smelling. If you've introduced recently then the mounting is really to be expected, male or female. Sometimes females (the hormonal ones!) are worse than males. They are worse when they're in season. Bear in mind it's a completely natural behaviour and if they're not harming one another then it's best to leave them to it.
 
we tried our two boars, but one was constantly humping the other and was really stressing him out, they lived together for nearly five months, but charlie was getting a bit depressed, so we spllt them, even now in the run louis is still constantly on charlie - charlie now lives with the baby from our recent piggy birth and they get on great. louis lives on his own now and so does coco - two boars who unfortunately just cant live together! hope u sort it out
 
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