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Does anyone else have Guinea pigs who all live alone?

I have 3 boys, who all have to live on their own. I'm quite jealous when i see other piggies living happily together 8...

The reason my boys live seperatly is because they fight. We got Darwin & Dexter (brothers) and they lived together for i think about 2 weeks (Darwin was a bit of a bully), before poor Dexter got his ear ripped off (and I'm not exaggerating). Lucky the vet managed to save his ear :) It is a little odd looking right enough :))

About a month later, we adopted Dustin.

We have introduced them i dont know how times, bathed them together, you name we have tryed it and they end up killing each other! Theres been bleeding lips, bleeding ears & cuts so it just got too much and we called it a day. It wasnt fair on any of them.

I think the problem with my boys is they are all far too dominant and theres never going to be a pecking order decided - plus when we got Dustin he was alone (dont know the reason why he was put up for adoption).

Considering guinea pigs are herd animals, my 3 are very happy on their own. All their cages are side by side and i think, especially for Dexter they feel safer being in their own cage.

Has anyone else experienced the same thing?
 
The problem with boars is they really need to choose their own friends as they are so fussy. That is why shelters offer a boar dating service. It is sad your boys cannot live together as having a friend really changes a piggy and makes them so happy. You could always try the boar dating or maybe even get one neutered and get him a girlfriend. :)
 
Tell me about it! lol
Tbh i cant see any of my boys getting along with another piggie ever and i would hate to get them a friend and it not work out. Then its another piggie living alone when he could be living with another piggie somewhere else.
As for neutering, i wouldnt put the wee guy through the op just to have a cage mate when he's happier living himself, and if i got a female i would need to get them all neutered as she would drive the other two nuts and i couldnt seperate them, as much as they hate each other, they hate being away from one another!
If i thought they were miserable i would do everything in my power to make them happy. The bars of their cages are touching, so they still have contact, just not enough to hurt each other.
If Darwin (who is a mummys boy) smells one of the others scent on me he bites me! lol
It is sad they dont get along and i really wish they did, they just prefer being wee loners lol
 
I have two boars that live alone, I've tried to pair them up but one of them is like satan reincarnated when near the other piggies so it's safer to just let him be on his own. He is young so maybe he will chill out a bit when he gets older, you never know! All my piggies live in the house with us and even though two are on their own they are still surrounded by other pigges so get to join in the chatter!

Jenny xx
 
whoohoo I'm not the only one then :)

Ours live in our livingroom. Its so cute watching them chat to each other through the bars as if their neighbours chatting over the garden fence haha
 
My two Rainbow bridge boys lived as lone boars as they did not bond. I still have the scars to this date from the failed bonding attempts. Boar dating is a great idea if that is offered in your part of the country or near you, which isnt always the case. As far as I know there arent any rescues that do boar dating near me.
 
I currently have 3 lone boars!

Bounty is sooo aggressive at the moment!
Loki is just going through his hormonal teenager years
and poor Sky was bitten by Loki on the lip so for now hes on his own.
Once Loki has grown up more he will go back with Sky. I had them out together on Sunday and they were fine but not ready to share a cage again yet.
 
we had three boars in together, and two decided to fall out, so we had to take one out, we have a c&c cage, so we just sectioned a part off for the boy on his own, so they are right next to each other and can touch through the bars. i have had no problems with this set up, and the lone boar still pop corns like crazy round his cage x
 
Reading this has made us feel very lucky.

A few months ago we got a baby guinea pig to put with our Snowball who was almost 2 at the time, and they got along straight away. Eating grass together etc, they don't sleep together but they haven't had a fight. Snowball is a pretty laid back guinea though, although his definitely the dominant one!
 
I have a loan boar. any attempt at finding him a friend has been futile{:|
 
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