Guinguy42
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi,
We recently got a young male (around 10/11 weeks) to go with a 2 and a half year old male who lost his companion of the same age.
The introduction between Baby and Ted seemed OK and apart from trying to work out who the boss is (seems to be Baby as Ted is quite timid). That said there has been some barbering from Baby towards Ted and he seems to have lost a lot of hair on the lower back. Ted in himself doesn't seem very concerned and will run off and hide when it becomes an issue. They seem to being getting on quite well apart from this.
But the hair loss has worried us. They both went to the vet last week to get checked over. She believed the hair loss was just down to the barbering and she could not see any sign of mites (she did not do a skin scraping).
The hair loss has got a bit worse although there are no scabs or bleeding. It just looks like Ted is balding on his lower back. My worry is that this is the area where mange can be common from what I have read and I don't want to put it down to barbering if it is something more.
I suppose what I expected with barbering would be the hair to just go very short but this looks more like Baby has been pulling them out by the roots which is a little destressing (although I do know this can be normal behaviour under the circumstances I still wish it wasn't happening.)
I have a couples of pictures which dont show it too well but perhaps someone will have had similar issues?
We recently got a young male (around 10/11 weeks) to go with a 2 and a half year old male who lost his companion of the same age.
The introduction between Baby and Ted seemed OK and apart from trying to work out who the boss is (seems to be Baby as Ted is quite timid). That said there has been some barbering from Baby towards Ted and he seems to have lost a lot of hair on the lower back. Ted in himself doesn't seem very concerned and will run off and hide when it becomes an issue. They seem to being getting on quite well apart from this.
But the hair loss has worried us. They both went to the vet last week to get checked over. She believed the hair loss was just down to the barbering and she could not see any sign of mites (she did not do a skin scraping).
The hair loss has got a bit worse although there are no scabs or bleeding. It just looks like Ted is balding on his lower back. My worry is that this is the area where mange can be common from what I have read and I don't want to put it down to barbering if it is something more.
I suppose what I expected with barbering would be the hair to just go very short but this looks more like Baby has been pulling them out by the roots which is a little destressing (although I do know this can be normal behaviour under the circumstances I still wish it wasn't happening.)
I have a couples of pictures which dont show it too well but perhaps someone will have had similar issues?
