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Well, it seems to be the season for boars to fall out at the moment - do male hormones go haywire in spring or what?
As regulars here will know, Tom and Jerry are brothers aged about 2 1/2 who have apparently always lived together peacefully. We adopted them at the beginning of Feb, and since we've had them they've never been particularly close. I've never seen them snuggled up together, and they have squabbled at a fairly minor level from the day we got them - rumblestrutting etc.
But yesterday when they were out on floor time, a real fight broke out. They were both fluffed up and chattering their teeth really loudly, chasing each other round and round really fast and then they launched themselves at each other into a spitting, snarling ball of fur.
We caught Tom and popped him in the cage, gave them time out to calm down, then tried them on a lap. Fine. Put them back in the cage together and fed them. Still fine. They went to sleep. A bit later, all mayhem broke out again - exactly as above- and we have had to separate them. Tom seems to have a very tiny wound on his nose.
This morning I spoke to Amanda at RSPCA Medway and she says they were not like that when they were there. So I wonder if it was being next to Sam and Roo which has upset them. Although they were next to lots of piggies at Medway.
Shuld we move their cages to a separate room from S and R and then try to re-bond? Or just accept that we now have one pair and two singles?
As regulars here will know, Tom and Jerry are brothers aged about 2 1/2 who have apparently always lived together peacefully. We adopted them at the beginning of Feb, and since we've had them they've never been particularly close. I've never seen them snuggled up together, and they have squabbled at a fairly minor level from the day we got them - rumblestrutting etc.
But yesterday when they were out on floor time, a real fight broke out. They were both fluffed up and chattering their teeth really loudly, chasing each other round and round really fast and then they launched themselves at each other into a spitting, snarling ball of fur.
We caught Tom and popped him in the cage, gave them time out to calm down, then tried them on a lap. Fine. Put them back in the cage together and fed them. Still fine. They went to sleep. A bit later, all mayhem broke out again - exactly as above- and we have had to separate them. Tom seems to have a very tiny wound on his nose.
This morning I spoke to Amanda at RSPCA Medway and she says they were not like that when they were there. So I wonder if it was being next to Sam and Roo which has upset them. Although they were next to lots of piggies at Medway.
Shuld we move their cages to a separate room from S and R and then try to re-bond? Or just accept that we now have one pair and two singles?