samuelmorris
New Born Pup
hi, I'm new to this forum!
i have three guinea pigs called munch, nibbles and chewie. i got munch and nibbles, my girls, last year from a pet shop as i was uneducated at the time as to where to get them from. they were never really the best of friends and they sometimes fight but they tolerate each other. munch is much bigger and more dominant than nibbles. we recently upgraded them to a massive 18 sq ft cage and they seem happy. theyre not the most cuddly but theyre friendly enough and they dont like to be picked up (they run away when we go to pick them up) but we get them out every day anyway.
in february we went into a local pet shop to get some food for some of our other pets and we saw a single guinea pig who looked very skinny, had no friend, no toys and no water or bedding. he looked ill and i couldnt stand to leave him there so we decided to save him from there and bring him home. he was always very skittish and nibbly and no matter how much we handled him he was always nervous. we got him castrated last month and the other day we tried to introduce him to our girls (after a month of scent swapping and having their cages next to each other). they fought for a bit and we thought they were just doing their mating rituals so we left them but took chewie out overnight so they didnt hurt each other. we put him back with the girls the next day and later that day we noticed that nibbles had a cut on her ear and lip so we took him straight out again. he is still so skittish and the girls seem more scared than usual. the girls also seem to fight between themselves a lot when he is with them, and he fights them. i dont know what to do now because chewie hasnt got a friend and we dont have enough space to get another boy, but he always fights when we put him in with the girls. does anyone have any advice? should i jist keep him seperate in a different cage? will he be ok to live on his own?
thanks!
i have three guinea pigs called munch, nibbles and chewie. i got munch and nibbles, my girls, last year from a pet shop as i was uneducated at the time as to where to get them from. they were never really the best of friends and they sometimes fight but they tolerate each other. munch is much bigger and more dominant than nibbles. we recently upgraded them to a massive 18 sq ft cage and they seem happy. theyre not the most cuddly but theyre friendly enough and they dont like to be picked up (they run away when we go to pick them up) but we get them out every day anyway.
in february we went into a local pet shop to get some food for some of our other pets and we saw a single guinea pig who looked very skinny, had no friend, no toys and no water or bedding. he looked ill and i couldnt stand to leave him there so we decided to save him from there and bring him home. he was always very skittish and nibbly and no matter how much we handled him he was always nervous. we got him castrated last month and the other day we tried to introduce him to our girls (after a month of scent swapping and having their cages next to each other). they fought for a bit and we thought they were just doing their mating rituals so we left them but took chewie out overnight so they didnt hurt each other. we put him back with the girls the next day and later that day we noticed that nibbles had a cut on her ear and lip so we took him straight out again. he is still so skittish and the girls seem more scared than usual. the girls also seem to fight between themselves a lot when he is with them, and he fights them. i dont know what to do now because chewie hasnt got a friend and we dont have enough space to get another boy, but he always fights when we put him in with the girls. does anyone have any advice? should i jist keep him seperate in a different cage? will he be ok to live on his own?
thanks!