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I have 2 female Piggies, both 2 years old.
Susie is very friendly, happy to be handled and curious and playful. Holly is HUGE, she is quite domineering, doesnt like to be handled AT ALL and generally seems to be quite grumpy! The only thing she wants to do is eat, she is twice the size of Susie
We bought a new, larger hutch and a new baby guinea pig (Tinkerbell) at the weekend and they seemed to be getting on ok at first. (we havent put them in the new hutch just yet, the two older ones are in a cage and the new piggy is in a smaller cage, inside the big cage!) However, after a few hours, Holly became very angry at Tinkerbell and everytime she see's her, she makes a chattering noise and tries to bite her and becomes very stressed.
What do i do?!
Pets at home told me that they may fight, i also spoke to 2 different Guinea pig rescue shelters who told me that it would be rare if they fought as they would have a very strong mothering instinct and pets at home probably wanted to just sell me a larger cage! :o
One of the shelters i spoke with advised me to put a dab of vicks on each piggies nose so they all smelt the same!
Can anyone offer me any advice?
Will they eventually get used to each other?
Holly is the size of a small rabbit where as Tinkerbell is the size of a hamster!
Susie is very friendly, happy to be handled and curious and playful. Holly is HUGE, she is quite domineering, doesnt like to be handled AT ALL and generally seems to be quite grumpy! The only thing she wants to do is eat, she is twice the size of Susie
We bought a new, larger hutch and a new baby guinea pig (Tinkerbell) at the weekend and they seemed to be getting on ok at first. (we havent put them in the new hutch just yet, the two older ones are in a cage and the new piggy is in a smaller cage, inside the big cage!) However, after a few hours, Holly became very angry at Tinkerbell and everytime she see's her, she makes a chattering noise and tries to bite her and becomes very stressed.
What do i do?!
Pets at home told me that they may fight, i also spoke to 2 different Guinea pig rescue shelters who told me that it would be rare if they fought as they would have a very strong mothering instinct and pets at home probably wanted to just sell me a larger cage! :o
One of the shelters i spoke with advised me to put a dab of vicks on each piggies nose so they all smelt the same!
Can anyone offer me any advice?
Will they eventually get used to each other?
Holly is the size of a small rabbit where as Tinkerbell is the size of a hamster!