Do they remember?

[Fatman3310]

Hello, About 3 years ago I bought a single guinea pig. I knew nothing about them. Learnt proper feeding and carimg in about 6 months. Thankfully she got babies. Male and female. Male got to go to another home because after few weeks he was rtying to mount his mother and even sister and also i didnt have and cant have capacity for 3 of them. This separation is normal I read everywhere. He is okay now I guess - he went to my moms friend - not sure if he is alone or with companion - i told my mother that it is better to have more of them and then I haven't thought of that male cute piggie anymore. I was busy in school and so. About half year ago my mother gave me a message that he is doing fine.
and I kinda regret that i didnt make my mother send the friend a website where there is everything about proper feeding (dont know how he is fed) and how companion is needed. There is hopefully still some time to improve his life i will try it.

Otherwise
I am just curious if babies remember the siblings they were born with? I know that in general mothers does not care about their babies after few weeks at all, but siblings, do they think about their brothers and sisters. They have been together fir like 1 month max then the male went away. Does my female remember him? Do you think they were somehiw bonded. When he went away there was no squaking or so because they were too young I guess. Just curious.

 

[Free Ranger]

They might remember them if they met again but that's not to say that other factors wouldn't take over as they are now adults who would not necessarily like each other. I'm not sure if they'd 'mourn' in the same sense that we would after the separation. I try to think about these things in terms of evolution. As pigs evolved they would have unfortunately been picked off by predators pretty regularly so I get the strong sense that if they dwelt on these losses for too long it wouldn't do their chances of survival any favours. When my older ones have passed we've had a range of responses from the companions - from fearful distress when my gentle George lost his beloved old Daisy, to apparent indifference as Ivy hopped over Lulu's prostrate body for her morning cucumber. And she liked Lulu!

I know that years ago when my 2 pigs went to my friend's when we went away they actually got put in with her 4 pigs in the big run - and presumably they all got on well enough. A few years later one of those 4 came to live with us and later another one who had been left alone as last pig joined us to make a trio. We were happy to get her, but I don't remember either any emotional reunions or any squabbling... they all just seemed to get on with it!