Fluffball
Junior Guinea Pig
So Arthur came back from his op on Friday 5th June and has been well on his way to recovery. We made sure to keep out of his hutch during the first week after his operation, choosing rather to keep him inside on fleece to make sure that the operated area wouldn't become irritated from the biodegradable bedding pellets in the hutch and so that it was a constantly clean area that he was living in.
He normally lives with his brother, Merlin, and so on Sunday 7th, Wednesday 10th and Saturday 13th, we made sure that Merlin and Arthur got some time (a few hours each time) to spend with each other and each pig seemed a bit glum. We popped Arthur back into the hutch on Saturday 13th after a 'good to go' from the vet. All seemed to be going well, except we started to notice that Arthur, who is the larger pig out of the two, was starting to chatter and grind his teeth a lot, though we never saw an outright fights.
However yesterday morning we heard Merlin squealing and found Arthur biting Merlin on his rump. We've now separated the two lads and we've cleaned Merlins wound which is luckily only skin deep- I'll put up pictures if requested.
The boys have never had any troubles except for a few scuffs resulting in nipped years over the four years they've been together and we don't want them to have to live separately.
Any ideas as to how we could introduce them to each other again and stop the 'dominance'?
He normally lives with his brother, Merlin, and so on Sunday 7th, Wednesday 10th and Saturday 13th, we made sure that Merlin and Arthur got some time (a few hours each time) to spend with each other and each pig seemed a bit glum. We popped Arthur back into the hutch on Saturday 13th after a 'good to go' from the vet. All seemed to be going well, except we started to notice that Arthur, who is the larger pig out of the two, was starting to chatter and grind his teeth a lot, though we never saw an outright fights.
However yesterday morning we heard Merlin squealing and found Arthur biting Merlin on his rump. We've now separated the two lads and we've cleaned Merlins wound which is luckily only skin deep- I'll put up pictures if requested.
The boys have never had any troubles except for a few scuffs resulting in nipped years over the four years they've been together and we don't want them to have to live separately.
Any ideas as to how we could introduce them to each other again and stop the 'dominance'?
I would take them both boar dating, but see if maybe Merlin or Arthur would be better living alone