bond help

Hi guys, I have 2 boars, both not neutered, on Thursday night my typically more dominant boy got injured, it’s hard to say whether my other boy injured him or if he got his injury from the cage roof falling in and him escaping (it’s a c&c cage and when I got back home the roof had fallen in and...

I added my girl Maple around a year ago to my current both female duo, and they didn’t have very many issues then, but for quite a while I’ve noticed some bullying. They will often nip her if she’s eating with them or waiting in line for water, sometimes she’ll just be sitting there not in their...

Hello I’ve had my two pigs for 9 months they’ve both been living together for the same amount of time also. I got them together and they are siblings but not from the same litter. To my knowledge they shared a cage before I had them and therefore I felt it okay to have them live together...

Hey All, I put Ginger, Teddy and Grumpy in the cage together for bonding for about 2 hours now. Ginger is the dominant one. Teddy and Grumpy is still squeaking at Ginger so does this mean the bonding is not going well as the girls is stress?

I'm bonding my original guinea pig(Cookie) with a new guinea pig(Bubbles) after cookies cage mate passed. I've had them in their neutral area for about 5 hours, they haven't really fought and when they did it was very quick, no blood. They coexist pretty well and they don't go after each other...

For several months now I've had a peaceful trio of boars. The youngest of them is three and they were all well out of hormonal phases when I got the third (Nussi) - the two first are father (Angel) and son (Storm). It's been going great up until now - no fights, barely any dominance behaviours -...

I’m new to this site and thought I’d come on here for some much needed advice. I have a 4 month old guinea pig (Poppy) and I’ve recently tried adding another (Gracie) who is a little over a year old. Gracie was surrendered by a family and has always lived alone in her cage. They’ve been in the...

Hello! I have 3 male Guinea pigs and I’m looking for advice on their housing/relationship situation. First of all, I’ve got two together and the third pig is by himself (right next to the other cage, they still interact!) Two of my boys have been together from the start, over a year old now. One...

Hi, I have just adopted a pair of sows and am hoping that I can introduce a younger sow to form a trio. Obviously I have to wait a couple of weeks or more for them to settle in and trust us, but would it work trying to do this? The pair I have are 1 years old. (Photo from previous owner)

I have had a new neutered boar (Freddie) now for a week who is going to be paired with my lone girl (Luna) who has now been on her own for 2 weeks. I know the recommended advice is to quarantine any new piggies for 2 weeks but I am concerned about Luna who has done nothing but hide since she...

Hi all, As some of you will know, we lost our 4 year old sow Clarice yesterday after a battle with lymphoma. She leaves behind her friend Cora - who is 2.5 years old. They had been bonded by our local rescue when Cora was a baby, and we adopted them together just under a year ago. We also...

I’ve got 4 girls and I adopted another girl today who’s roughly two months old, they’re all on the floor in open space to bond and the most dominant one dougal, keeps going after her and teeth chattering, raising on her back legs slightly and showing her teeth. is this normal or does it mean...

I have three boys who have lived together without problems, since I brought home my 1 year old last july and my 5 month old in january. I have a 5 year old who has been here from the start, but surprisingly he was very lenient with the two babies coming home and had no issues with them. All of...

Hi guys! I rescued two skinny pigs from a local rescue in February. They are going to be two years old in July. I know that boys can be aggressive with each other, but I’m having a hard time determining if what I’m seeing warrants separating. One is specifically the bully, and the other never...

Hi, I could really do with some advice about whether of not to keep trying to find a friend for my almost 5 year old sow Puffin. Over Christmas she lost her sister Panda who she had lived with her whole life. We have since tried to bond her with a 4 year old sow, but that failed, we tried...

Hello, a few weeks ago I posted on here because of rumble-strutting and super territorial behavior in one of our adolescent sows towards the other. We have two girls in the proper sized cage, with three kinds of hides that have multiple entrances, 3 hay feeding areas, 2 water bottles, chews...

Hi, I hope you can help. 1 month ago I adopted a neutered boar (18 m) and a sow (8 m) from the RSPCA to join my trio of sows 1 is 8 m and 2 sisters at 6 months. The trio were never close but tolerated each other with the occasional squabble between the sisters. A couple of fights but no blood...

I recently got two female baby guinea pigs (~7 weeks). I've had then for about a week and I'm having trouble deciding if they are paired well and are doing dominance situation or actually fighting because they haven't been paired well. I've seen some signs of dominance and some signs of fighting...

Hey, I'm Sam and just got became a new guinea pig owner. About a week ago I went to get Mabel, at Petsmart. They told me she was only 8 weeks old. Then today (a week later) I went to get Luna, another female guinea pig from Petsmart. When they are together in the same cage Luna just seems to...

Hello. I have 2 board, about 8-9 months old. The have a 15 sq ft C&C cage. The dominant one has always been sort of mean, but for the past day or so, he has been non stop chasing and rumbling at the other pig, and won’t even let him eat hay (there’s two hay racks)He will corner him and climb on...