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Mr Audrey & Mr Marilyn

Mr Audrey & Mr Marilyn

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I just had an awful experience, I just played a YouTube video which had a guinea pig wheeking on it,*whilst i was in the same room as my two boys (they've been together over a year and are my only piggies). After about 5 seconds my dominant boar started rumblestrutting - *alot, so I stopped it straight away and then they started fighting, it was horrible I've never seem them like that before! We managed to stop them and seperate them very quickly - no blood, so we gave them a bit of time to cool off and then put them out together for floor time with lots of hay and some food. Ive been sat with them they were fine for the first 10/15 mins, but then*there was quite a bit of chasing and nipping, and then they'll stop to eat hay, and then a bit more chasing, I'm very*worried I've done something terrible! Goodness knows what the pig on the video was 'saying'! Could it have been a females call? I'll stay watching them, but does anyone have any advice as to what I should do? I'm not sure I trust leaving them in the cage at the moment!*
 
Its not your fault they fell out hon, if they were going to fall out they would have done it at some point or another.

Don't give up with them yet.

Try giving them a bath together so they both smell the same, see if that does the trick. My 2 boys have the occasional argument and we either bath them or put them in seperate pens in the garden so they can still be close but not fight.

hope this helps. x
 
Mojo and Smudgy fell out today aswell D:
Must be the season
 
Oh I do hope you get this sorted soon, it's really not your fault, I play piggie videos to sometimes see what my girls reaction would be (they ignore me) I really wouldn't expect that reaction! It may just be a tiff, I'm sure all piggies argue sometimes, mine certainly have their moments! Good luck hun x x.
 
That's nothing to worry about but I know how scary it is when you witness it the first time without knowing what will happen. Had it happen to me the first time with my first pigs when I was about 10/11, it was scary and unfortunately my pig (the other was technically my brother's) got bitten on the lip quite badly and so they had to stay apart from each other.

To be on the safe side just don't play anything with guinea-pig calls on again if it triggers a little fight.

Bathing pigs who fall out is unnecessary. It doesn't make a blind bit of difference because they only care about the genital area as that's where they find all the important information about each other like age, gender and 'status' (submissive or dominant), like dogs do and many other animals.

It's best to let them sort it out in the cage, but obviously if there is blood, that's when you have to step in. If there was no blood and it was over in a matter of minute, no need to worry.

Also, males and females don't have 'unique' calls, as far as I'm aware. And I don't think they can determine gender through calls either, but I've never heard of either in 15 years owning pigs.

Hope that helps, and don't forget to relax :)
 
Thanks all. Well we left them out having floor time for a few hours so there was enough space for them to get away from each other. Poor Audrey was getting quite tired and tried to rest a couple of times when Marilyn would come and start chasing him again. It calmed down though and after a couple of hours and after they had both had a rest and some more food they seemed to have pretty much forgotten about it so we braved putting them back in the cage and watched them for a couple of hours before deciding it was safe for us to go to bed (although we left the door open so we could here them!)*
Thanks for all you advice, especially for reassuring me it wasn't my fault- let this come as a warning to anyone with temperamental boars!
 
Yay, I'm glad to hear that Audrey and Marilyn are getting on again! I know my boars got a little bit scuffly when I brought Bernadette home - they are obviously not kept together, but they could smell another ladypig. I kept an eye on them to make sure nothing bad happened, and now they've got used to her they're back to normal!
I hope they have a happy cheerful life together with no more squabbles :))
 
Awwww no, it's not your fault. It's spring and hormones are running high :(|) My boys are always bickering, nipping is quite normal so long as their is no serious wounds inflicted, or obvious bullying from one pig in partic. A bonding bath is a good idea, and plenty of treats scattered about to keep them busy. Make sure there is adequate room and seperate feeding dishes and beds are advised, to prevent fights over food and hideys etc. I often seperate my boys when tensions are high (i have a trio) I put Jem in the cage and let Dexy and Spike play out in the pen. Just to give them a breather.
I think ages 8-14 months are the worst, i cant wait till mine are 2!
Don't beat yourself up, i reckon they were on the brink of a tiff anyhow and even if the video clip brought it on, it would have happened anyhow. :)
 
May have been a sheer coincidence :(
Glad they are buddies again though, piggies fighting is a really scary thing to see. Have had to intervene with girls during attempting to bond - they were like little spitfires rolling around locked in battle :... rolleyes
Give me gentle boys anyday x)
 
Guinea pig slave said:
May have been a sheer coincidence :(
Glad they are buddies again though, piggies fighting is a really scary thing to see. Have had to intervene with girls during attempting to bond - they were like little spitfires rolling around locked in battle :... rolleyes
Give me gentle boys anyday x)
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Isn't it mind boggling how nasty they become with each other? And with us humans they are (usually) so gentle! :{ I had 2 that had to be seperated permanently for bad fights, noone could believe that such cute little animals were capable of it :(|)
 
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