WandaStevie
New Born Pup
Hello all!
Until recently I had 2 sister piggies Wanda and Stevie, but sadly Stevie passed away suddenly. It was honestly a shock.
Wanda initially seemed confused without having her sister around, but she started eating less despite us paying her a lot of attention and care. I knew I needed to get her a friend.
Having read about bonding and bereavement, I found a baby sister for her - Frannie.
We introduced them in neutral territory and Wanda became super animated smelling her and ?grooming her. Some time later we put them in the cage together and they seemed to get along well.
This was 3 days ago now.
Whenever we take them both out the cage and are petting Frannie, Wanda starts nipping her and lunging for her. Otherwise she seems quite protective of Frannie. Is this normal behaviour?
On top of that Frannie is understandably very scared still as she’s only been with us 3 days, but I have not seen her eat anything and I cannot judge if she’s eating as Wanda shares the cage with her, but we give them access to hay, dry food and hay. She’s still producing poops. Whenever we pick her up she tries to absolutely leg it, going as far as trying to jump out of my arms. Is this normal for some pigs? None of my previous ones were like this.
Thanks all!
Until recently I had 2 sister piggies Wanda and Stevie, but sadly Stevie passed away suddenly. It was honestly a shock.
Wanda initially seemed confused without having her sister around, but she started eating less despite us paying her a lot of attention and care. I knew I needed to get her a friend.
Having read about bonding and bereavement, I found a baby sister for her - Frannie.
We introduced them in neutral territory and Wanda became super animated smelling her and ?grooming her. Some time later we put them in the cage together and they seemed to get along well.
This was 3 days ago now.
Whenever we take them both out the cage and are petting Frannie, Wanda starts nipping her and lunging for her. Otherwise she seems quite protective of Frannie. Is this normal behaviour?
On top of that Frannie is understandably very scared still as she’s only been with us 3 days, but I have not seen her eat anything and I cannot judge if she’s eating as Wanda shares the cage with her, but we give them access to hay, dry food and hay. She’s still producing poops. Whenever we pick her up she tries to absolutely leg it, going as far as trying to jump out of my arms. Is this normal for some pigs? None of my previous ones were like this.
Thanks all!