bonding advice

So I have 2 bonded boars, Einstein and Darwin. They don't fight and enjoy there new life since I rescued them about 6 months ago. Yesterday I took in 4 piggies to foster. 2 sows and 2 boars all in separate en closures. I have fallen in love with one of the boars. He has a bond with another...

Hello everyone, so recently i picked up a small I'm guessing 4 month ish pig off Craigslist, and began introducting her to my almost 1 year old sows, i live in a packed house so it wasnt possible and continues not to be, for me to find a neutral space inside but i regularly take my 2 outside, i...

Hi! This is my first post. I have a female piggy named Maya. I tried matching her with a lot of pigs but she always turns out to hate them. She looks the happiest when she's alone. But I know they should not be alone so I just try to keep on matching and matching. A couple weeks ago I got a...

Unfortunately last night my oldest girl Olive peacefully passed away, I already miss her so much. This leaves her sister Pepper alone, I gave her a soft toy last night and this morning she came over as normal for her breakfast and is eating and drinking. She is a shy, easily spooked pig due to...

Hey there! Sorry in advanced for the long post, having some bonding trouble and not sure what to do. Last week we adopted Almond (1.5yr sow), and Acorn (8 months recovering-neutered boar). We already have 2 sows, Peanut and Waffles (both 9 months). Our set up is 3 separate C&C cages sharing...

Hi, I have bit of a bonding problem and I cannot seem to figure out how to solve it. I've have 8 guinea pigs over the years and have been able to bond them successfully. However, awhile ago I got a new piggy named Rocky. There are two others I'm trying to bond him with, Einstein and Cataldo...

Sorry if this is too long. So I have a 2 year old male guinea pig and I recently got a baby female to get him out of his shell because he is very shy. They are in separate cages for now until he gets neutered and even then I want to wait for her to grow up a bit so they'll be apart for a...

Hello everyone! I’m new to Guinea pigs but I’ve done EXTENSIVE research on them. I have a 7 month old & a 4 month old, both males. I had the oldest first and got him a friend. My problem is the bonding. So I put them in a neutral area with lots of hay. Lots of snacks. There has been ZERO...

My senior guinea passed away about a month ago, and and decided to go on the hunt for a partner for my living guinea pig, Mocha, who is ~ 3.5 years old. I went to a local rescue and was able to adopt Tammy who is about ~ 3 years old. Just to give you guys the backstory. We attempted the bonding...

Hi So I have two boars that I've been working on bonding for months now. They are housed in side by side runs and I've been getting them out in a neutral area for play sessions. They are finally showing signs of being happy together (i.e laying down together, sharing hay etc), but I don't...

Hi, I am a Guinea pig owner to a 10 month old abyssian Guinea pig we lost her older sister in December and have rescued a 8 month old Californian, I am just looking at some advice in how to bond them! Piggie the older Guinea pig is quite skittish and Bambi our rescue is calm but can be...

Following my initial thread, which can be found here... I have now reached a stage where bonding is finally going to happen soon. First the boar had to be 6 months before neutering could be done, then I was told by the vet that he had to be at least 1kg, because otherwise there could be...

Hello all I apologize in advance for the long explanation, I'll start out with a bit of intro. A couple years back my sister got a guinea pig. His name is Bleu. We went on vacation a while later, and boarded him at a rescue. We asked them to try him out with some other pigs to see if there were...

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...

Hi, I have 4 guinea pigs (Blossom, Totoro, Bilbo and Ponyo). Blossom, Totoro, and Bilbo are almost 6 months old. We don't know the age of Ponyo, but we know he is an adult and at least 1 year old. At first, we had two guinea pigs that came from different places and that we had bonded, their...

I have Chavela (1.5 years old, darker brown) and my yet-to-be-named piggie (almost a year, light brown). I’ve been trying to bond for about 4 months. At the first meet they were doing pretty good for the first 20 minutes but then I had to separate them. I put them in a split cage so they can...

Unfortunately I've ended up with 2 single pigs separated after a failed bonding and I'm desperate to know if anyone thinks there is any hope at all to salvage this bonding. I got Coconut, an 18 month sow, approx 6 months ago, for my 3 year old sow, Biscuit, who was left solo after her sister...

Our 2.5 year old female guinea pig lost its mate a few weeks ago. We have bought a baby female and kept them in separate accommodation 4 days and swapped fleecy items during this time too. We didn't do the quarantine period because the older one was bereaved. I have a few questions: 1. Now we...

So I have a general question that I need help with. My wife and I have five bonded girls that have lived together for about a year. We just recently lost one of our girls, and we ended up getting a couple boys at the pet store. This was a mistake that the pet store sold us three boys that all...

Hi there, I haven't owned piggies in a few years, and have never kept boys before. I recently got a 15 week old boar and then a bigger boar (the person who sold him to me claimed he was also 15 weeks but he seems a bit older to me) to live with him. They are still absolutely terrified of me, and...