Separating? Teen boar

I think given the way Digby behaves you may just have to keep him as a neighbour to any piggy. It’s a pity he was alone for so long. How was BB behaving with all the jumping? Was he accepting it?
That was my original intention until the separation of these two. I’ll still try him with Sprout just because they’re both here so I may as well. When Digby gets like that he’s very intense, BB was running around a lot whilst Digby was chasing him to hump him. BB didn’t want to accept at first but Digby is so relentless that he would just squeal whilst Digby was on him and at times try and throw him off. It was like that when Little and Digby we’re bonded too, after a bit of time they see how relentless Digby is and just accept it. And now that I know Digby has a bad memory, if his instinct is to hump relentlessly to start with then I don’t think it’s fair to put another piggy through several hours of that until everything is fine and they get on only for Digby to forget in like a month and then the other piggy has to go through it all again.
He was doing so well that first hour, maybe it took him a while to process that they’re not just hanging out by the bars but actually are physically together ? I don’t know. It’s just a shame, they were really quite compatible until his brain made him just attack.
 
Do you think it’s memory issues or the fact he’s not been with another piggy - doesn’t know how to behave? Was it Digby who used to ‘zone out’ sometimes?
 
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Hope the bonding tomorrow goes better @Little Ones, sorry it didn’t work out with BB. Hopefully young and bouncy Sprout might distract Digby from his humping tendencies a bit more and it goes better🤞🤞 Will be sending lots of positive vibes your way tomoz! xx
 
@Little Ones could Digby be one of those who needs bonding slowly?...like for fear aggressive piggies...I’m taking a stab in the dark so don’t listen to me! Wishing you good luck for tomorrow. If Digby goes on the humping rampage, will you leave them to it if Sprout seems to ‘accept’ that behaviour?
 
Do you think it’s memory issues or the fact he’s not been with another piggy - doesn’t know how to behave? Was it Digby who used to ‘zone out’ sometimes?
@Little Ones could Digby be one of those who needs bonding slowly?...like for fear aggressive piggies...I’m taking a stab in the dark so don’t listen to me! Wishing you good luck for tomorrow. If Digby goes on the humping rampage, will you leave them to it if Sprout seems to ‘accept’ that behaviour?
Yes it was him! The reason I feel like it’s a memory issue was because of how he was with Little once they were bonded. During the bonding, Digby humped Little for about 4 hours straight and then calmed down and they were able to bond. After that, they were best friends. Digby loved to sleep beside Little, he’d listen to Little, and honestly Digby really loved the company and didn’t like to be away from him. About a month later, out of nowhere, Digby snapped and it was like he didn’t recognise Little. He humped him again for 4 hours until he calmed down and accepted Little again. Then they got on again perfectly well. I told myself that if Digby snapped again, I’d separate permanently. Then maybe another month or so later, the same thing happened. I let Digby hump Little for an hour and then separated because I could see where it was going. That’s why I think it’s a memory issue, Little wasn’t a dominant piggy at all. He was in charge, but not dominant, so there was nothing to spark Digby’s random aggression.
It’s so hard to picture what Digby is like when he gets like that, but he is honestly relentless and undistractable. You can give him veg or any food he likes and he’ll ignore it or take it and immediately drop it so he can hump the other. There really is no stopping him. It’s weird because he’s a lovely piggy, but when he gets like that it’s almost like he’s completely feral. There’s no way to sort of get in contact with him.
What do you mean by bonding slowly? I’ve never heard of that before with boars.

Well, my plan was to see if Sprout was happy to humped without much protest, and if so then I’d leave them for an hour or two and monitor if there was any growing distress. Just play it by ear and call it quits when I felt things got too much.
So that’s what I did, but disaster happened and I’m still really confused about it.
Sprout was fine being humped by Digby, he didn’t have any qualms really. There was some bum chasing, so like where they chase in a tight circle but that was sort of the only dominance from Sprout. The chase would end when either one of them gave like a warning jab with their nose. They were eating beside each other and cleaning beside each other. Digby was being his humpy self, but was taking breaks from the relentlessness to eat which seemed like a good sign. Sprout really didn’t seem to mind the humps, he took it better than BB and Little ever have. Digby was mainly humping Sprouts face.
Then something weird happened, they were stood beside each other after Sprout had just been humped right on his face. Digby bent over to get a poop from his own butt, or just doing something in that region. Then Sprout also stretched his head over and began nuzzling into Digby’s tummy area. Digby didn’t react to it, just carried on what he was doing. And then he straightened himself out and Sprout retracted his head - everything was calm, there were no adverse reactions to anything in the moment and then suddenly there was a lot of blood. I’m looking at the situation trying to analyse what just happened, the piggies are walking around and the blood is going everywhere. I look at Sprout and he has blood by one of his nostrils, so my immediate thought is that he’s been bit somehow at some point so I remove him immediately and wipe the small amount of blood off of his nostril and put him in a carrier. Then I get Digby and put him in a separate carrier and quickly wipe up all the blood droplets.
I go back to Sprout to have a look at his nose, he had just finished cleaning himself and his nose isn’t bleeding, doesn’t look like it was ever bleeding either. At least not from a cut. And even if there was a cut, there was too much blood for it to stop bleeding so quickly. Unless it was a nose bleed? But I don’t know if piggies can get those.
So then I go back to Digby and I can’t find any blood on him either. I’m wondering if he pee’d it? And Sprout got it on his face either through being humped, or nuzzled it off of him?
It was real, proper blood though. Not diluted or anything like I would expect pee-blood to be. I check the blanket Digby is on in the carrier and I find this:
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So honestly I’m confused at what just happened. I can’t find any wounds on either piggies. But to me, things weren’t so intense to warrant a bite.
I saw Digby pee three times yesterday during the bonding with BB and there was no blood at all. But this time there was a lot of blood, thick blood. And I have no idea where it came from or what to even do next. This happened about an hour and a half ago. I’ve been checking each of their cages to see if some blood appears, but there isn’t any. So I have no idea what happened
 
Oh that’s very odd 😳 there was no bite or anything that you witnessed? Hmmm I would consider trying them again if you can’t find any injuries on them. None at all? Belly, back, face, bum etc?
 
Oh that’s very odd 😳 there was no bite or anything that you witnessed? Hmmm I would consider trying them again if you can’t find any injuries on them. None at all? Belly, back, face, bum etc?
Thank you for writing this, even though I had checked both boys over twice, I had another look after reading this.
Digby is a difficult piggy to analyse because he’s never been handled in that way, so for example he’d never had his nails clipping until he came to us so he doesn’t like to be messed with and will nip very hard when you try to. After your comment, I gave him a real good look especially at the opening where the penis is in. After opening it a little bit I noticed something stuck in there, only small, looked kind of like a loop and was a dark yellow. After a lot of fight from Digby and some gentle manipulation, I get this out:
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Seems like a sperm rod or something which has folded in on itself instead of coming out. The part with the blood was the part really inside. The blood must’ve come from his penis. I haven’t been able to pop his penis out to look and see if it’s okay because he’s fighting me very hard.
Would you say I should have the give him a look over, or do you think it should be okay now that it’s out?
 
I was going to ask if you’d checked his bits but thought it might sound odd, thought he could’ve maybe a nip to his penis etc! Poor Digby, bet that wasn’t comfortable :yikes:
I’d maybe get a vet to have a look if you can’t pop it out yourself, especially as there was blood, just in case there’s anything else that needs cleaning from it or it’s swollen etc. He might need some pain relief just in case it has caused any irritation or soreness for him bless him.
So sorry you don’t seem to be getting much of a rest with these boys atm! Hopefully you can continue the bonding with Sprout if it was going ok and no bites🤞xx
 
I was going to ask if you’d checked his bits but thought it might sound odd, thought he could’ve maybe a nip to his penis etc! Poor Digby, bet that wasn’t comfortable :yikes:
I’d maybe get a vet to have a look if you can’t pop it out yourself, especially as there was blood, just in case there’s anything else that needs cleaning from it or it’s swollen etc. He might need some pain relief just in case it has caused any irritation or soreness for him bless him.
So sorry you don’t seem to be getting much of a rest with these boys atm! Hopefully you can continue the bonding with Sprout if it was going ok and no bites🤞xx
I’d looked the best I could but he gets quite cross, he wriggles and nips like you wouldn’t believe. Hard enough for two people to sort never mind just one! It was lucky I actually managed to find what I found.
I’ll try and get a vet appointment for later. There really was a lot of blood but nothing at all since. Weird.
Then in the next day or so, we’ll be back for round 2 with Sprout and Digby!
 
I’d looked the best I could but he gets quite cross, he wriggles and nips like you wouldn’t believe. Hard enough for two people to sort never mind just one! It was lucky I actually managed to find what I found.
I’ll try and get a vet appointment for later. There really was a lot of blood but nothing at all since. Weird.
Then in the next day or so, we’ll be back for round 2 with Sprout and Digby!
Naughty beggar, I can imagine though with these boys :doh: Just had to remove a collection of hair from Jasper’s and he’s pretty good but Luigi is not quite as well behaved (or still!) and normally nips are involved!:doh: It is hard when it’s just you and you’re trying to be gentle sometimes!
Good luck with getting an appt and hope he’s ok, bet that feels much better already for him! Very strange with the blood, hope no more.
Hopefully round two goes well! xx
 
We managed to get in at the vet not long after my last post. The vet couldn’t get Digby’s penis out either, he went to the back and had the nurses help but it wouldn’t come out. Digby has a cauliflower penis (Little did too) and it just wouldn’t come out because of all the excess skin he told me.
Anyway, he had a feel of that region and said there wasn’t anything abnormal he could feel and to give pain relief just in case and watch out for anything else.
They also didn’t even have pain relief for me to buy because there’s a shortage of loxicom and has been for a few months now so they didn’t have any. We have some at home but not much, we also have a repeat prescription from Simon for it but we’ve been unable to get any online either. I asked if they had gabapentin but they didn’t. BB has 1ml of loxicom per day, so we’ll be out soon if stock doesn’t reappear! Luckily we have some we can give Digby for today, but not a great deal for how much we use. Simon told me about this shortage a bit ago but it was just for the 100ml, now they don’t even have the 32ml!
Anyway, the vet didn’t seem too worried about Digby overall since the sperm rod had been removed and we just need to keep our eye on him. He’s still eating and pooping which is a good sign.

The bonding will continue either tomorrow or the day after, whenever I feel up to it.
 
Wondering if I should just go to the health and illness section about this because I don’t want to get too side tracked. There were still some small patches of blood in the cage, like very small dots.
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After a lot of effort and fight we managed to pop Digby’s penis out, once we did it once it came out easily so I could manage to one handedly grab my phone to take a picture. Looks like there’s a cut which is still bleeding slightly. My thought is that the sperm rod must’ve got stuck here and tore which is why it started bleeding the way it did when perhaps the rod came loose.
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So now I’m wondering if we need another vet trip for some antibiotics maybe? Or will pain relief be enough and it will just heal on it’s own? Am I better off getting advice from the health and illness section?
 
I would also email them a photo and follow it up with a call. That does look a little sore!
 
Oh no poor chap, that does look a bit sore. How annoying the vets couldn’t do it or have the loxicom :doh: I’d do the same and send a pic if you can xx
 
Ouch poor boy! Sorry to hear you’re having bonding worries and health worries @Little Ones :no: . Do your vets let you email pictures in? Might be worth ringing them and asking if you can send a picture and see what they recommend? X
I would also email them a photo and follow it up with a call. That does look a little sore!
I will ring and check tomorrow about the picture. I feel like they’ll just tell me to come in since there may be a different vet on and the vet wasn’t able to see the wound in the first place. I might struggle to find a lift there again tomorrow so don’t want to go unnecessarily if I’m going to be told it’ll heal on itself. Especially if they can’t even get it out again and then I’ll feel like it was a waste. He’s a real feisty thing so maybe that’s why they didn’t try for so long to pop it out, in combination with his cauliflower penis.
It only bled badly for about 10 seconds at the most, it was a lot at once but the area must’ve clotted quite quickly? But there is still very small amounts of blood coming out meaning it hasn’t stopped bleeding entirely. What a nightmare this all became! Poor Digby, he hides any discomfort so well :(

Oh no poor chap, that does look a bit sore. How annoying the vets couldn’t do it or have the loxicom :doh: I’d do the same and send a pic if you can xx
The only reason I was glad to be going to the vet was because I thought I’d be able to get my hands on some loxicom, we’re really running low and I’m not sure how BB and his bowel disease will cope without it if it comes to it! I’m also hoping that if I need to take Digby tomorrow that one of the vets I like is on, at the minute it seems to be this one particular vet that I’m not fond of every time I go. They’ve told me he’s an exotic vet, but each time I’ve seen him I haven’t reckoned much. We saw him the day Little died too. He said Little was fine but was starting to have GI stasis. When we went back out of hours and saw one of the vets I like, she told us he wasn’t in GI stasis and had good gut sounds but the gasping for breath that the previous vet told me was nothing was actually a huge sign of pain. The same vet also missed Peanut’s gastric dilation a few days before his death too. I honestly don’t know why I bother going when he’s on, but it’s not like I have the option to be picky!
 
So sorry you couldn’t get the loxicom, I’d heard it was running low and was panicking a bit myself! Hope you don’t struggle to get more with BB needing it 🤞
I have the same with my local vets, there’s a couple I really am not happy to see because they’re pretty useless with all small furries and I find myself doubting what they tell me because I don’t trust them at all, I’d feel the same if that was my vet too, especially with your last hours with Little and him being so poorly and him not diagnosing things. Could you ask which vet it is for the appt and ask to change if it is him? It’s hard sometimes when it’s just the one you’re not keen on and you need to go though like you say!
Hope he’s had a good night and doesn’t seem sore, bet it’s feeling much less sore already now that’s gone! xx
 
So sorry you couldn’t get the loxicom, I’d heard it was running low and was panicking a bit myself! Hope you don’t struggle to get more with BB needing it 🤞
I have the same with my local vets, there’s a couple I really am not happy to see because they’re pretty useless with all small furries and I find myself doubting what they tell me because I don’t trust them at all, I’d feel the same if that was my vet too, especially with your last hours with Little and him being so poorly and him not diagnosing things. Could you ask which vet it is for the appt and ask to change if it is him? It’s hard sometimes when it’s just the one you’re not keen on and you need to go though like you say!
Hope he’s had a good night and doesn’t seem sore, bet it’s feeling much less sore already now that’s gone! xx
I checked animed about an hour ago and their 32ml has been restocked, so managed to get some ordered. At least that’s one less thing to worry about!
One of the vets I like is on today, but I’m going off of him as well. I had thought he was quite good until BB nearly died from his bowel disease and we took him to see this vet only to then have to see Simon a couple of days later. Simon basically disagreed with everything the vet had told us. The vet also told us not to give emeprid as it’s not good to use in piggies, sort of does more harm than good (which I already didn’t believe, and BB had also gone into GI stasis about 15 hours before this so needed the emeprid). Whereas Simon prescribed 2ml of emeprid a day long term for BB. I just wish there were vets aside from Simon and Kim that I could trust!

Anyway, before I carry on rambling, Digby’s penis seems better today. It isn’t bleeding anymore and doesn’t look as sore as yesterday. I hardly slept last night because I was worrying about him and checking his cage for any blood every few hours.
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I’m going to call the vets and just ask their opinion on if he needs to still be seen given that it isn’t bleeding anymore or if pain relief is enough.
Poor Digby, when he was messing with his bum yesterday, he must’ve managed to tug on the sperm rod slightly peeking out and tore it straight off his penis which caused all that blood. I really wish he’d make it more obvious when he’s in pain. Even when he was bleeding like he was, he seemed completely fine. I know piggies hide their illnesses or discomfort but usually I have some indication somethings wrong, but with him there’s just no signs of anything!

Think I will bond the boys tomorrow just to give Digby some time to recover in case he’s in a bit of pain still, but also if he needs the vet at any point today it would mean I’d have to stop the bonding which isn’t ideal.
 
I checked animed about an hour ago and their 32ml has been restocked, so managed to get some ordered. At least that’s one less thing to worry about!
One of the vets I like is on today, but I’m going off of him as well. I had thought he was quite good until BB nearly died from his bowel disease and we took him to see this vet only to then have to see Simon a couple of days later. Simon basically disagreed with everything the vet had told us. The vet also told us not to give emeprid as it’s not good to use in piggies, sort of does more harm than good (which I already didn’t believe, and BB had also gone into GI stasis about 15 hours before this so needed the emeprid). Whereas Simon prescribed 2ml of emeprid a day long term for BB. I just wish there were vets aside from Simon and Kim that I could trust!

Anyway, before I carry on rambling, Digby’s penis seems better today. It isn’t bleeding anymore and doesn’t look as sore as yesterday. I hardly slept last night because I was worrying about him and checking his cage for any blood every few hours.
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I’m going to call the vets and just ask their opinion on if he needs to still be seen given that it isn’t bleeding anymore or if pain relief is enough.
Poor Digby, when he was messing with his bum yesterday, he must’ve managed to tug on the sperm rod slightly peeking out and tore it straight off his penis which caused all that blood. I really wish he’d make it more obvious when he’s in pain. Even when he was bleeding like he was, he seemed completely fine. I know piggies hide their illnesses or discomfort but usually I have some indication somethings wrong, but with him there’s just no signs of anything!

Think I will bond the boys tomorrow just to give Digby some time to recover in case he’s in a bit of pain still, but also if he needs the vet at any point today it would mean I’d have to stop the bonding which isn’t ideal.
So pleased you could get some!
Don’t blame you going off him then, it’s so frustrating when these vets don’t have a clue, thank god for Simon and Kim! I trust them completely too but it can be hard to get last minute appts and you’re stuck with these vets sometimes in an emergency etc :(

That looks so much better! Sorry you were worrying last night but I definitely wouldn’t worry much anymore, it’s looking fab. I guess it’s like picking off a scab, lots of blood at first but soon heals, that’s definitely done well with healing overnight! These boys and their bits 🙄 Luigi had a very large bit of hay stuck in his not long ago, was zooming around and acting like it was nothing, must have hurt though?! So brave sometimes these pigs!

Hopefully you won’t need to see the vet today with him looking so brilliant but I’d just keep an eye on him. Then hopefully some bonding without any blood or stress tomoz! 🙈 xx
 
So tried bonding Sprout and Digby again and it seems more potentially has been revealed about Digby’s accident...
Digby humped Sprouts face again, and I sort of saw Sprout nuzzling into ‘the area’. Then they stopped and Digby did it again and I looked more closely. Digby’s entire penis was OUT and so it seems like what could’ve happened yesterday was that Sprout bit Digby’s penis, and maybe the sperm rod was produced from all that humping!? I didn’t think the penis came out during dominance humping? Maybe I’m wrong though? Or maybe it’s just Digby being strange. Either way, I stopped the bonding pretty quickly and as soon as I realised what was going on.
Right now, I’m trying Digby with BB again to see how things go. They’ve been together about 5 mins and so far so good. Hopefully Sprout didn’t get a nibble on Digby’s penis and make it sore again! Madness.
 
We’ve just approached the one hour mark and all is still well. Digby isn’t overly humpy - not much at all really, but whenever he tries I’ve just distracted him which has worked. Usually he won’t be distracted but because he’s not in his feral humpy stage, it’s working. I know I shouldn’t interfere but I think in this case, interfering has more benefit than just letting it happen. Especially since BB is the established leader in the hierarchy and Digby’s instinct to hump is the only thing that could mess it all up.
Hopefully things continue to progress smoothly.
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Hi!

Mounting is an integral part to boar bonding. You cannot change the instinct of a boar - they are either mounters or rumblers by nature and will always instinctively react like that whenever they meet other piggies or experience an occasional hormone spike well into adulthood.
Why have you aborted the other bonding, which went well, and are now insisting on a fraught bond that is not going to profit from you interfering with the boys working through their issues? It is setting back the bonding process without providing a constructive long term solution to the mounting issue.

Guinea pigs have their personalities; you cannot make them fit into a mould. Bonding is all about finding that personality match that comes naturally.
 
Did Sprout bite Digby this time or it just seemed like it would happen? He may have been smelling him rather than going in for a nibble. It sounds like that may have potentially worked out as Sprout accepted his position.

The issue with interrupting when he’s going to hump is that you won’t always be able to do that. And long term it would get tiring for you I’m sure. How are they now? If you don’t interrupt, what happens?
 
I would’ve left Sprout and Digby to it too as it was going well until the blood incident on weds. I wouldn’t have thought the sperm rod thingy you found was produced during that time, just maybe became detached with Sprout checking out ‘the area’.
The reason I’d thought maybe a bite from Sprout down there originally is going back to when my Jess was young, she’d nuzzle and try to suckle Sheepy, (she was taken from her mum at 3 weeks and was a bit messed up from it her first couple of months with me) so I thought maybe Sprout could’ve been doing the same and Digby maybe got excited or the other way around!
My Jasper runs around getting excited with his penis out sometimes, normally when he can smell Aliona or Cleo is in heat, so I wouldn’t say it’s overly strange for these pigs to do. Luigi did it a lot as a youngster too but is more of a ‘plod along’ lazy kind of boy these days.
I hope this bonding goes well but try not to get involved if there is humping etc, they really need to sort it out themselves, unless they’re visibly upset or there’s aggression. Digby is obviously a big humper so whoever lives with him will have to be ok with it x
 
Hi!

Mounting is an integral part to boar bonding. You cannot change the instinct of a boar - they are either mounters or rumblers by nature and will always instinctively react like that whenever they meet other piggies or experience an occasional hormone spike well into adulthood.
Why have you aborted the other bonding, which went well, and are now insisting on a fraught bond that is not going to profit from you interfering with the boys working through their issues? It is setting back the bonding process without providing a constructive long term solution to the mounting issue.

Guinea pigs have their personalities; you cannot make them fit into a mould. Bonding is all about finding that personality match that comes naturally.
Hi, I understand what you’re saying! And I completely agree! There’s a lot of context you may have missed. Digby has lived a solitary life for 5 years, and no bonding with him has ever been normal. His long time alone has damaged him mentally in relation to his behaviours with other piggies, he was previously bonded with one of our piggies who passed away. He will hump totally relentlessly with no breaks for around 4 hours until he gives the other piggy chance to cool off. This is very distressing for the other piggy and we want to avoid this if at all possible. He is a piggy who is submissive when bonded, and was best friends with our piggy who passed away however they were separated after being together for a few months due to Digby’s problems. It was like he forgot who the other piggy was entirely and humped non stop for 4 hours straight again, causing lots of distress to both parties. After Digby ‘forgot’ the other piggy twice, they were separated for good and it was decided he would be a single piggy for the rest of his life, only having bar interaction. We never intended for him to be bonded because of his issues. As I’ve mentioned above in other posts, he turns totally feral once he gets like this, and it is very distressing for the receiving piggy.
Digby is a submissive piggy when he isn’t in his obsessive state. I would never interfere with dominance behaviours, except for in this situation. BB and Digby both display mutual liking towards each other, BB very clearly is in charge from the get go. Once Digby starts the humping, he will just go into his feral type state. Once Digby was in his happy bond previously, he was not a humper at all, and is a rumbler. As I said, the only reason I have stopped this behaviour happening was in benefit of Digby’s mental state to prevent him from becoming aggressive.

I don’t understand your part after that, sorry. There’s been too many bonds here going on, lol. BB and Sprout were separated due to full on fighting. BB and Digby’s first bonding attempt went well for an hour until Digby got into his feral type state and it was aborted. I had no intention of trying them again.
Sprout and Digby’s first bonding attempt was aborted due to a lot of bleeding happening suddenly. I thought it was a bite, but later discovered it was on Digby’s penis which was bleeding and there was also a sperm rod found with blood. It was believed by the vet that the sperm rod had gotten stuck and tore off the skin causing bleeding. Because there was no biting from Sprout or Digby, I tried them again today. However, I’ve since discovered this bleeding/cut potentially happened due to Sprout actually biting Digby’s penis. When Digby was humping Sprout’s face today, Digby’s whole penis was out and Sprout was in a clear position to bite it. This was why I aborted this second attempt at bonding as I had realised there was indeed blood drawn from Sprout the first time.
I decided to try BB and Digby together again as they were getting on very well until issues from Digby’s years of being solitary were triggered. This second bonding has gone very well so far. Digby didn’t go into his feral state, and I distracted any humping on Digby’s side in order to prevent this. Every other dominance action, like rumbling etc, I allowed to proceed except from this. In the past, I attributed Digby’s behaviour to a ‘get him before he gets me’ mentality, as after the 4 hours he calms down, so once he seems to trust the piggy he stops. Digby and BB have been best bar friends for many months now, and have a clear liking towards each other in the bonding pen.

I’m not sure what parts of Digby’s backstory and behaviour I’ve wrote in this thread as he was never intended to be involved until BB and Sprout were split permanently. However, the reason I hadn’t provided it fully if it’s not on here is that the members helping me with this have helped me previously when we first got Digby so understand his behaviour and circumstances.
All of the bonding sessions Digby has ever been in would have been stopped quickly if he were any other piggy due to his relentless and obsessive humping, however each time I’ve had to factor in his circumstances and just play it everything minute by minute in terms of how the other piggy is coping with the situation.
 
Did Sprout bite Digby this time or it just seemed like it would happen? He may have been smelling him rather than going in for a nibble. It sounds like that may have potentially worked out as Sprout accepted his position.

The issue with interrupting when he’s going to hump is that you won’t always be able to do that. And long term it would get tiring for you I’m sure. How are they now? If you don’t interrupt, what happens?
It really seemed like it would happen, suddenly everything from the other day made more sense. Sprout’s mouth was right by Digby’s penis and I realised that Sprout must’ve been the one to bite it before. Since there’d already been a bite and because it’s a dangerous and sensitive area for a piggy to bite aggressively, I aborted it for the greater good!
Digby is only a humper before he goes crazy, he doesn’t hump aside from that. I only stopped him around 5 times, after that he didn’t try again. It’s been 3 hours now and everything is going well. Digby hasn’t gone feral for once, BB has kept him in line when necessary. They’ve gone to sleep and woken up twice now and things have been going well. There’s a clear mutual liking there, just as there was with Digby and Little. Now that Digby has had enough time to trust BB, he hasn’t even tried the humping since. I’m really proud of him!
 
I would’ve left Sprout and Digby to it too as it was going well until the blood incident on weds. I wouldn’t have thought the sperm rod thingy you found was produced during that time, just maybe became detached with Sprout checking out ‘the area’.
The reason I’d thought maybe a bite from Sprout down there originally is going back to when my Jess was young, she’d nuzzle and try to suckle Sheepy, (she was taken from her mum at 3 weeks and was a bit messed up from it her first couple of months with me) so I thought maybe Sprout could’ve been doing the same and Digby maybe got excited or the other way around!
My Jasper runs around getting excited with his penis out sometimes, normally when he can smell Aliona or Cleo is in heat, so I wouldn’t say it’s overly strange for these pigs to do. Luigi did it a lot as a youngster too but is more of a ‘plod along’ lazy kind of boy these days.
I hope this bonding goes well but try not to get involved if there is humping etc, they really need to sort it out themselves, unless they’re visibly upset or there’s aggression. Digby is obviously a big humper so whoever lives with him will have to be ok with it x
It all got a bit too close for my liking given the circumstances right before the blood happened before. I didn’t know piggies got their whole thing out when they humped! I’ve never had humpy piggies before! Digby is a rumbler rather than a humper, it’s funny he never humped Little at all aside from when he was in his feral type state. I can’t imagine what must go through his head during those times.
I think had I not stopped any of Digby’s humping before it had the chance to begin, we’d be in a completely different scenario. I’m so impressed with Digby, he only tried to hump about 5 times and hasn’t at all after that. He’s doing so well. My only hope is that in a months time, he doesn’t ‘forget’ who BB is and go feral. Not sure what I’ll do then, as it was in the best interest for Digby to be kept single for that reason. I suppose we’ll see what happens.
If all is still going well in about half an hour, I’ll move them into their new cage!
 
It all got a bit too close for my liking given the circumstances right before the blood happened before. I didn’t know piggies got their whole thing out when they humped! I’ve never had humpy piggies before! Digby is a rumbler rather than a humper, it’s funny he never humped Little at all aside from when he was in his feral type state. I can’t imagine what must go through his head during those times.
I think had I not stopped any of Digby’s humping before it had the chance to begin, we’d be in a completely different scenario. I’m so impressed with Digby, he only tried to hump about 5 times and hasn’t at all after that. He’s doing so well. My only hope is that in a months time, he doesn’t ‘forget’ who BB is and go feral. Not sure what I’ll do then, as it was in the best interest for Digby to be kept single for that reason. I suppose we’ll see what happens.
If all is still going well in about half an hour, I’ll move them into their new cage!
Mine don’t just get it out for a hump, Jasper has cauliflower willy too and zooms around like it, all very odd looking when he first came but I’m kind of used to it now after nearly seven months with him! 🙈 :))
The difference with BB and Sprout is age and agility over gorgeous Little, so if Digby does start at least they can escape and get of his way more if he does have his big humpy times, like you say you’ll just have to watch them.
I’d personally leave them in longer tbh, especially as they’ve met before and been separated. Just to make sure everything’s definitely settled and they’re happy before they’re in the cage x
 
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