Teriffied New Arrival

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Terrified New Arrival

I've just got our latest guinea pig home, he seems realy terrified, none of the other pigs were ever this scared when they first arrived.

At the moment he's snuggled up under a towel with one of his eyes peeping out, too scared to move. Any tips on how to make the change a little easier for him.

He was kept in a shed with lots of other piggies, so I spose he's really insecure on his own, I don't want to put him with Spike yet, as Spikes a bit boisterous and I don't think the little new piggie will be able to handle an intorduction yet. I've moved his food bowl closer to him in the hopes that it will encourage him to eat.

edit. He hasn't moved for over an hour . . . apart from the odd twitch when something makes a noise
 
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He's probably just shocked by his new surroundings and possibly missing the company of all the other piggies he was housed with, give him time and intro him to the others when you're ready and i'm sure he'll be fine
 
Lincoln was like this wen i 1st got him. he didnt move from the same spot for hrs! The next day he still stayed really still. i was nearly in tears coz he looked so scared i fort he mite have a heart attack or something. I just left him. Only went in to change his water and food for 2 days. then i started sitting next to his cage talking gently to him or me and my bf wud chat quitely next to the cage so he got used to us. eventually he got better. Now he wont leave us alone.
Just give him time. He'll be ok dnt worry :) just give him sum space x
 
He's doing much better today. I woke up and he hadn't moved since last night. So I bought Spike up to see him and he really perked up at the sound of another piggie. So I spose he was just very lonely, I did play some clips of squeaking last night to see if that would do any good but it didn't. There was no rumbling or teeth chattering, but I was scared Spike was gonna squish him as he kept trying to crawl under Spike, lots of butt-sniffing and squeaking I don't think it was aggressive though o.O He's eating now, but only when I'm not looking, lol. I'm quite relieved, at the moment he's sitting in his food bowl eating in secret, he stops every time turn around.
 
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aww,they're such timid creatures! all four of our where like this at first, three of them still are! only pheobe lets us stroke her whilst in the cage,but she is super confident! cxxx
 
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