RoliePolieOlie
New Born Pup
Hello!
My partner and I are new here.
Backstory: We have seven (five males and two females) Guinea pigs, the cages use to be five (3 males, two females)and two (males). Recently we noticed one of our males Beanith has been really aggressive with not only the other males in the cage but also the females. It got so bad that he has attacked and humped everyone and we had to pull him out when blood was drawn. We took him to the vet and they told us that he has a tilted pelvis and that he may be in pain due to it and as a result has become more aggressive.
Currently he is in a cage by himself and it's clear that he hates it. So we have his cage up against the two pig cage and now he constantly bites the bar. Him and the other four have been together for 2 years and there was never a problem, he was the sweetest one in the group. But now the group doesn't want them back.
Problem: We don't want to leave him a lone piggy and we don't want to give him away but we're stuck. We were debating on putting him in the two cage or getting him a new partner.
With the two cage we have a our longest bonded male pair/our first pigs, they've been bonded since they were two months old. They aren't in the group because they don't like big groups. On the other hand if we adopt another guinea pig should we adopt a disabled guinea pig? We were told bean is disabled and we heard if we got an able bodied guinea pig he may attempt to be more dominate and aggressive.
My partner and I are new here.
Backstory: We have seven (five males and two females) Guinea pigs, the cages use to be five (3 males, two females)and two (males). Recently we noticed one of our males Beanith has been really aggressive with not only the other males in the cage but also the females. It got so bad that he has attacked and humped everyone and we had to pull him out when blood was drawn. We took him to the vet and they told us that he has a tilted pelvis and that he may be in pain due to it and as a result has become more aggressive.
Currently he is in a cage by himself and it's clear that he hates it. So we have his cage up against the two pig cage and now he constantly bites the bar. Him and the other four have been together for 2 years and there was never a problem, he was the sweetest one in the group. But now the group doesn't want them back.
Problem: We don't want to leave him a lone piggy and we don't want to give him away but we're stuck. We were debating on putting him in the two cage or getting him a new partner.
With the two cage we have a our longest bonded male pair/our first pigs, they've been bonded since they were two months old. They aren't in the group because they don't like big groups. On the other hand if we adopt another guinea pig should we adopt a disabled guinea pig? We were told bean is disabled and we heard if we got an able bodied guinea pig he may attempt to be more dominate and aggressive.