agressive behaviour change

i got my boys almost two weeks ago, they are around 17 weeks old. I’m trying to bond with them and get them used to being held so every day I will take them out or the cage and lightly pet them and hand feed them some veggies. They have gotten used to being held for a few minutes but don’t like...

In my 9 years of owning guinea pigs i have never been fully bit by one before . Today i was trying to clean my new pigs fur (she’s a very long haired one and the vet told me i should do it around her poop area because pee and poo was getting stuck to her fur. I tried to get her from the cage and...

Hi I’m quite new to this but I needed some advice on my guinea pigs. So bit of a backstory, I had two pigs but one sadly passed away, and a few months after I got another baby one. This baby one (now nearly 1) and my older (about 3 and a half) used to get on really well, until last week. Loca...

Hey all! I got my first guinea pig last year. When i first got her she was super sweet and didn’t seem to have a problem (she was also just itty bitty). Now moving more closer to her 1st birthday she can’t stand to be handled.. bites (where blood is drawn) and just overall hates me or my...

Hi I have six guinea pigs, in one cage i have three boars that actually get along fantastic and have no problems whatsoever, but in my other cage I have two girls and one male. The two girls, being a mother (Minnie) and daughter (Riley), and the male being the baby daddy (Teddy). Over the past...

Hi there! My five month old boar, Poseidon, has recently started fighting with my fifteen month old boar, Orion, and I’m absolutely perplexed as to why. They’ve been bonded since Poseidon was just a pup, and I’ve never had any problems with them being violent with each other. I’ve recently...

Hi there. I currently have two guinea pigs, Meatball (aged 1 and a half years) and Popcorn (aged 2 and a half months). I’ve had Meatball since she was 6 weeks old, she was on her own until recently (about a month ago) I got Popcorn. Meatball and I had a really strong bond. She wouldn’t run when...