Female Dominance...

Has Your Guinea Pig Ever Run Into A Wall And You Laughed At Him Or Her?

  • Yes I Must Admit I Did!

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  • No But It Would Be Tempting And I Would Laugh

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Gizi

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Ok so It is the end of winter and beggining of spring! :D My guinea pigs have been doing some strange thing that they don't usually do! I'm pretty sure it is because they are in season... :P Yeah pretty gross even if I say so myself. These are what they have been doing...

Rumblestrutting - The do this because it is a love dance? LOL I'm not really sure if it is O.o Anyway they do this ( Well I only seen honey the dominant piggie do this before) when they walk past eachother so, Lets say honey was walking to the sleep area past Gizi She would do this then...

Chasing - Ok this is not like ' Come here I'm going to bite you!' It's more like ' I'm going to mount you and sniff your butt' This is not really chasing it's a bit more of mounting but yes they chase eachother and sniff eachothers butt. : P

Mounting - Again something only the dominant pig honey does, So what she does is rumblestrutt and she will mount Gizi and yes we are sure they are both females : P... This is not really nice to see but Gizi will run away as Honey Is chasing her to mount her and Gizi even ran into a wall TWICE! Ok I admit I laughed alot but she was fine! :)

Spraying Pee - Honey sprayed urine at Gizi and at first I saw that Gizi was wet and I smelled her and yes it was urine... Honey even got it into the bowl and believe me it was not nice cleaning it out!
Is this normal? How long are they in season for if they are even? Help? :)
 
I have to admit, i havent witnessed any humping yet, but my herd of ladies are a moody bunch at the best of times. I think female hormones make them especially moody. They argue from time to time, rumblestrut at eachother and also karate kick eachother. they steal food off eachother and have arguements if one of them wants a certain spot that another is occupying. They are like a group of teenagers. Never anything serious though and at the end of the day they are all snuggled in a pile in the bedroom. I think females are terribly hormonal in my experience :)
 
Flutterby said:
I have to admit, i havent witnessed any humping yet, but my herd of ladies are a moody bunch at the best of times. I think female hormones make them especially moody. They argue from time to time, rumblestrut at eachother and also karate kick eachother. they steal food off eachother and have arguements if one of them wants a certain spot that another is occupying. They are like a group of teenagers. Never anything serious though and at the end of the day they are all snuggled in a pile in the bedroom. I think females are terribly hormonal in my experience :)
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Yes they are! What do you think about the spraying urine thing?
 
Hmm I'm not too sure. It's not something I have seen in my ladies to be honest. They scent mark but have never sprayed it :hmm:
 
Yes, females do spray at other piggies as a 'back off now' warning. Treacle would do this to Cookie when Cookie was in season and trying to mount her. It is totally normal behaviour that you often witness in season time.
 
sport_billy said:
Yes, females do spray at other piggies as a 'back off now' warning. Treacle would do this to Cookie when Cookie was in season and trying to mount her. It is totally normal behaviour that you often witness in season time.
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But thats just it... Honey is in season and she is trying to mount Gizi But she is the one that is spraying?
 
Gizi said:
But thats just it... Honey is in season and she is trying to mount Gizi But she is the one that is spraying?
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That's fine, it happens both ways. Girls are often quite hormonal. As long as there is no serious fighting.

Seasons normally last 24 hours or so, soemtimes during season time there will hardly be any bickering, mounting, rumbling etc.... But others they can be stronger seasons.
 
Gizi said:
Ok so It is the end of winter and beggining of spring! :D My guinea pigs have been doing some strange thing that they don't usually do! I'm pretty sure it is because they are in season... :P Yeah pretty gross even if I say so myself. These are what they have been doing...

Rumblestrutting - The do this because it is a love dance? LOL I'm not really sure if it is O.o Anyway they do this ( Well I only seen honey the dominant piggie do this before) when they walk past eachother so, Lets say honey was walking to the sleep area past Gizi She would do this then...

Chasing - Ok this is not like ' Come here I'm going to bite you!' It's more like ' I'm going to mount you and sniff your butt' This is not really chasing it's a bit more of mounting but yes they chase eachother and sniff eachothers butt. : P

Mounting - Again something only the dominant pig honey does, So what she does is rumblestrutt and she will mount Gizi and yes we are sure they are both females : P... This is not really nice to see but Gizi will run away as Honey Is chasing her to mount her and Gizi even ran into a wall TWICE! Ok I admit I laughed alot but she was fine! :)

Spraying Pee - Honey sprayed urine at Gizi and at first I saw that Gizi was wet and I smelled her and yes it was urine... Honey even got it into the bowl and believe me it was not nice cleaning it out!
Is this normal? How long are they in season for if they are even? Help? :)
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All of what you have described is my three girls all over. I know when there in season it seems to be every two weeks on a thursday through to a sunday sometimes it changes. I keep note in a guinea pig diary to know when all hell is going to brake lose !
 
Hi thanks for all of this information, I have read a lot and am more or less satisfied that my two girls are normal. I came on here looking for help because they are now over 2 years old and have always displayed dominance behaviours. They did have quite a go at each other when they were little (fur in mouth but not blood) which really scared me and I was worried to keep together. but it changes even from hour to hour so neither is upset long-term and they seem to enjoy each others company when they are not humping each others head and rumbling around each other. They live together, have lots of space and two sleeping places. I learnt early on that these two will never want to cuddle up to each other so need their space. I do watch carefully to make sure they are happy.
Since we got our first guinea pig pets many years ago, we had 2 sows together no problem and then after they died, again 2 sows who also had none of these behaviours and never even knew any of these behaviours existed until we got our third pair, these two . I must have always been lucky to have friendly girls before that never felt the need to.
Their hormones seem to be ridiculous it is so obvious that theyre in season that I sometimes take the grumpy girl out for a day or so if its too intense. They take turns you see. My question still is really - will they EVER stop! I thought that we might just need to get through a hormonal stage and then they would calm down but I am now wondering because now they are over 2 years. if they enter into another stage of life such as gong through a menopause? Could this be the key to the end of the fuss or is it likely to continue now?
 
I am very sorry for you, but guinea pigs don't have a menopause; sows can get pregnant - even if it kills them! - right to the end of their lives. Your two girls are likely to remain like that. they are obviously more hormonal and fairly closely matched in terms of dominance. It doesn't mean that they aren't closely bonded (the fact they allow each other to be mounted when the companion is in season proves that), it is just that the shape of their bond is different.

I wouldn't worry about fall-outs as they are now. They have never crossed the line or come close to it - a mouth of fur during bonding is a LONG way from an intentional deep bite in a serious fight, believe me!
 
Wiebke said:
I am very sorry for you, but guinea pigs don't have a menopause; sows can get pregnant - even if it kills them! - right to the end of their lives. Your two girls are likely to remain like that. they are obviously more hormonal and fairly closely matched in terms of dominance. It doesn't mean that they aren't closely bonded (the fact they allow each other to be mounted when the companion is in season proves that), it is just that the shape of their bond is different.

I wouldn't worry about fall-outs as they are now. They have never crossed the line or come close to it - a mouth of fur during bonding is a LONG way from an intentional deep bite in a serious fight, believe me!
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OK thank you very much, I did suspect that would be the answer really, just hoping they might have another, different stage of life ahead! - A much less hormonal one.

Hoping more for the 'lets sit and chat over a cup of tea/(or bowl of hay) older ladies' rather than the 'I want to show you how better I am than you' young girls. :)

I will try to not let it bother me too much. Hard to ignore on those evenings when the loud Rumbling is going on and on... Will probably still remove one at those peak times -just so they can have a break and a sleep. Thanks for your reply
 
You have never lived through the madness of a multiple sows in season day or two when the pheromones of a strong season trigger off any sow within reach that is close to her own season and we have got a humping orgy (girl-girl, girl-neutered boar, neutered boar-girl, or even a girl-girl-girl-neutered boar pile up in a kind of train crash scenario... :yikes:

I did have a pair of sows like yours.
 
My tiny little 6 month old sow was chasing and trying to mount my big boar last week. My boar has never tried to mount any of the sows. Hes a gentleman. shes a nightmare for squirting pee at him. Girls and those hormones
 
One of my girls sprays pee. I haven't seen her do it in a while, it was mostly while they were sorting out who was going to be boss, and she lost lol.
 
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