Hey everybody!
I'm just new and I have a big problem. I'm at my wit's end here.
I have 2 sows. One's 3,5 and one's a little over 2 years old.
Over the years we've noticed an increase in the amount the younger pig, Amber, spends rumblestrutting. During the first 6 to 12 months she seldom rumblestrutted, or at least not as much.
The last year or so it has gotten ecspecially bad. Nowadays she spends close to 24/7, rumblestrutting and making mating noises. She also mounts my other sow at least 7 times a day.
The older sow, Luna, is pretty mildmannered and while she sometimes tells Amber off she usually doesn't do anything about it.
We've tried everything to make them stop. We gave them seperate sleeping houses, which worked for a while, but Luna doesn't always hide in her sleeping house, so Amber's behaviour continues. Also, Amber struts and rumbles even when Luna is in her sleeping house.
Amber doesn't have cysts on her ovaries; her coat is in excellent condition and her overall health is good.
Seperating for a short amount of time doesn't work.
My parents don't want to get a third guinea pig (this is a suggestion we've gotten, the giver thought having more of a group might help straighten out issues between our guinea pigs); we've had guinea pigs for 18 years now and originally my parents got the guinea pig as pets for the kids. After these pigs have passed away, they don't want new ones.
Putting a cudding toy shaped like a guinea pig (yeah, we're pretty deperate here) doesn't work.
According to our vet hormone shots aren't likely to help.
We just switched out hay while hoping this will help somehow (another suggestion we got)
The guinea pigs still live with my parents. I'm studying and living in another city and I'm only home for the weekends.
Both me and my sibling are studying and working in another town and unable to take in guinea pigs.
My parents 've grown sick with the noises and the behaviour for it lasts for a long time already and they've lost all of their gusto in keeping guinea pigs. They want to give Amber to an animal shelter. I'm against it, because in her current state she's unadoptable, and she would spend her entire life being very lonely.
She's a really pretty pig, healthy (outside of her mating behaviour), friendly to humans and she loves being petted while spending time on your lap.
We had to euthanise the guinea pig we owned (who was Luna's previous cage mate) before we got Amber, because of her health. Mentally she wanted to live and she stayed in good spirits, but her living conditions grew inhumane and the constant care we had to provide grew its toll on her (at the end whenever we had to go to the vet she really freaked out) and on us. We got mentally scarred by it and we hoped the next guinea pig would be healthier.
My dad is visibly pained by the situation we have at hand and he can no longer bear to look at Amber.
Does anybody have a suggestion?
I'm just new and I have a big problem. I'm at my wit's end here.
I have 2 sows. One's 3,5 and one's a little over 2 years old.
Over the years we've noticed an increase in the amount the younger pig, Amber, spends rumblestrutting. During the first 6 to 12 months she seldom rumblestrutted, or at least not as much.
The last year or so it has gotten ecspecially bad. Nowadays she spends close to 24/7, rumblestrutting and making mating noises. She also mounts my other sow at least 7 times a day.
The older sow, Luna, is pretty mildmannered and while she sometimes tells Amber off she usually doesn't do anything about it.
We've tried everything to make them stop. We gave them seperate sleeping houses, which worked for a while, but Luna doesn't always hide in her sleeping house, so Amber's behaviour continues. Also, Amber struts and rumbles even when Luna is in her sleeping house.
Amber doesn't have cysts on her ovaries; her coat is in excellent condition and her overall health is good.
Seperating for a short amount of time doesn't work.
My parents don't want to get a third guinea pig (this is a suggestion we've gotten, the giver thought having more of a group might help straighten out issues between our guinea pigs); we've had guinea pigs for 18 years now and originally my parents got the guinea pig as pets for the kids. After these pigs have passed away, they don't want new ones.
Putting a cudding toy shaped like a guinea pig (yeah, we're pretty deperate here) doesn't work.
According to our vet hormone shots aren't likely to help.
We just switched out hay while hoping this will help somehow (another suggestion we got)
The guinea pigs still live with my parents. I'm studying and living in another city and I'm only home for the weekends.
Both me and my sibling are studying and working in another town and unable to take in guinea pigs.
My parents 've grown sick with the noises and the behaviour for it lasts for a long time already and they've lost all of their gusto in keeping guinea pigs. They want to give Amber to an animal shelter. I'm against it, because in her current state she's unadoptable, and she would spend her entire life being very lonely.
She's a really pretty pig, healthy (outside of her mating behaviour), friendly to humans and she loves being petted while spending time on your lap.
We had to euthanise the guinea pig we owned (who was Luna's previous cage mate) before we got Amber, because of her health. Mentally she wanted to live and she stayed in good spirits, but her living conditions grew inhumane and the constant care we had to provide grew its toll on her (at the end whenever we had to go to the vet she really freaked out) and on us. We got mentally scarred by it and we hoped the next guinea pig would be healthier.
My dad is visibly pained by the situation we have at hand and he can no longer bear to look at Amber.
Does anybody have a suggestion?
