The Difference Between Male And Female Guinea Pigs (other Then Gender) ;-)

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Has anyone noticed that males seem to want to move around a lot more? They don't seem to particularly enjoy cuddles and lap time, always wanting to climb off my lap and explore! Whereas my females would always sit still on my lap and wouldn't try to run off! XD
Sometimes Sparkles does love to lie on his side on my lap and go to sleep, but mostly he just wants to move!
 
cavy clicker said:
Has anyone noticed that males seem to want to move around a lot more? They don't seem to particularly enjoy cuddles and lap time, always wanting to climb off my lap and explore! Whereas my females would always sit still on my lap and wouldn't try to run off! XD
Sometimes Sparkles does love to lie on his side on my lap and go to sleep, but mostly he just wants to move!
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I haven't noticed a gender difference in that, more a difference in ages. The duration to which each individual guniea pig is happy with can vary enormously, but I have and have had cuddlers and non-cuddlers in both genders.
 
Wiebke said:
I haven't noticed a gender difference in that, more a difference in ages. The duration to which each individual guniea pig is happy with can vary enormously, but I have and have had cuddlers and non-cuddlers in both genders.
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That's interesting! So, I just happened to have really characteristic boys!
 
I find the biggest difference between males & females is that males always want to move their houses & trays around. I can do a hutch out & then 2 hours later the boys have moved everything. The girls tend to never move anything around. This isn't a one off but happens with most boys who come to live in my rescue :) x
 
Up until the arrival of my surprise guinea pig babies, I'd only ever had females. One of the babies was male and he is more aggressive in the way he head butts everything out the way and chews and rips apart things! I get through so many more tubes and hay/cardboard houses than I used to!

I think males tend to be slightly bigger too.
 
Stewybus said:
I find the biggest difference between males & females is that males always want to move their houses & trays around. I can do a hutch out & then 2 hours later the boys have moved everything. The girls tend to never move anything around. This isn't a one off but happens with most boys who come to live in my rescue :) x
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Interesting! One of my pigs in particular (Sundae) has always been a rearranger... nothing stays where I put it, and things migrate around the cage constantly. She will grab things in her mouth and walk backwards with them until she is happy with them... she also gets in the pigloo and walks around with it like a turtle in a shell! My other pigs haven't reorganized to this extent. Maybe Sundae should have been a boy!
 
Stewybus said:
I find the biggest difference between males & females is that males always want to move their houses & trays around. I can do a hutch out & then 2 hours later the boys have moved everything. The girls tend to never move anything around. This isn't a one off but happens with most boys who come to live in my rescue :) x
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Yes Sparkles does that too! He loves to flip his house over!
 
Are males more likely to fight then females? I have heard stories of females not getting along, but they are not as frequent as the boar wars :box: :))
 
cavy clicker said:
Has anyone noticed that males seem to want to move around a lot more? They don't seem to particularly enjoy cuddles and lap time, always wanting to climb off my lap and explore! Whereas my females would always sit still on my lap and wouldn't try to run off! XD
Sometimes Sparkles does love to lie on his side on my lap and go to sleep, but mostly he just wants to move!
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My two males are exactly like that. They will do lap time if there is food involved, otherwise they want to be off exploring and running around. Once they are finished their pepper (which I reserve for lap time as it is their favourite) they are ready to be off. Hopefully as they get older they may want to stay longer.
 
One major difference I noticed between my male and females, surprisingly as everyone seems to say the opposite is my female is far more smelly than my boys. She loves to pee in her haybox and I can put fresh newspaper and hay in the boys and clean it out the day after and the box doesn't smell and barely has much pee in it yet her one is always absolutely soaked and stinks to high heaven.

Oh and my boys are far more into interaction with me except the youngest boar who is still a slightly bit too skittish yet.
 
Stewybus said:
I find the biggest difference between males & females is that males always want to move their houses & trays around. I can do a hutch out & then 2 hours later the boys have moved everything. The girls tend to never move anything around. This isn't a one off but happens with most boys who come to live in my rescue :) x
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I beg to differ! My little Bella is possibly part tortoise the way she moves her houses around, all her toys (I usually let them get on with it but had to tie the litter tray down!) and she's usually finished in about half an hour of ruining mummies creation. She will move one of her cardboard house over a snuggle sack for a nap and then a bit later she'll move it over the top of the food bowl.

Mostly she moves things around to create a race track for herself. She's a special piggie XD
 
Cavy Kung-Fu said:
I beg to differ! My little Bella is possibly part tortoise the way she moves her houses around, all her toys (I usually let them get on with it but had to tie the litter tray down!) and she's usually finished in about half an hour of ruining mummies creation. She will move one of her cardboard house over a snuggle sack for a nap and then a bit later she'll move it over the top of the food bowl.

Mostly she moves things around to create a race track for herself. She's a special piggie XD
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There's always exceptions to the rule lol :) x
 
oooh mine are the opposite my boars especially basil are so so affectionate my sows dont particulary like cuddles at all and sometimes i swear they look at me with distaste unless I am holding out a bit of lettuce for them.....thats a different matter:D
 
Stewybus said:
I find the biggest difference between males & females is that males always want to move their houses & trays around. I can do a hutch out & then 2 hours later the boys have moved everything. The girls tend to never move anything around. This isn't a one off but happens with most boys who come to live in my rescue :) x
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I find my girls do this very often, I often find myself running up the stairs because ive heard a thump but its always just an upturned hut ! x
 
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