Sarah Jane
New Born Pup
First I’ll just provide a link to my previous Guinea pig URI, Vicks, just need some comport. In short, I got my Piglet at 4 weeks old and she came home with a URI.
She is now approx. 13 weeks old. After taking advice from this forum, I decided against getting her a friend knowing that she was sick until she was given the all clear. She was given the all clear last week by my vet and on Sunday I got her a friend!
Flynn is a beautiful Abyssinian cross, about a year old and I rescued him from a local piggie shelter. He was adopted when he was 6 weeks old but was returned because he became aggressive to his older cage mate. He was desexed a few months ago and is much better with females! Piglet absolutely adores him, she’s often popcorning, chutting and trying to nuzzle him. Flynn is still unsure and is rumbling a lot when she approaches him as well as rumblestrutting sometimes. He hasn’t attacked her and often cuddles next to her when he is unsure or frightened by something he isn’t used to, but I’m wondering if this means they’re not a good match? They sometimes nip at each other without actually biting when saying they don’t like something but I figure this is pretty normal. There’s just a lot of rumbling coming from him at the moment and I love him so much and want him to have a forever home here. I know it can take a while for a bond to form, I’m just worried. He also rumbles when she tries to go into the hide he’s in, and she often sleeps under her wood bridge or another hide, will this pass? I theorise perhaps because he didn’t have a hide at the rescue that maybe he’s just very protective over it. He will let her in but will just rumble at her. I’ve seen this big, chonky boy popcorn in the cage and it makes my heart swell that he’s so happy. But he popcorned while rumbling tonight so maybe it was purring? I’m still trying to work out guinea pig behaviour and sounds!
I hope some of you can give me some insight and if I’ve left any details out, please let me know!
She is now approx. 13 weeks old. After taking advice from this forum, I decided against getting her a friend knowing that she was sick until she was given the all clear. She was given the all clear last week by my vet and on Sunday I got her a friend!
Flynn is a beautiful Abyssinian cross, about a year old and I rescued him from a local piggie shelter. He was adopted when he was 6 weeks old but was returned because he became aggressive to his older cage mate. He was desexed a few months ago and is much better with females! Piglet absolutely adores him, she’s often popcorning, chutting and trying to nuzzle him. Flynn is still unsure and is rumbling a lot when she approaches him as well as rumblestrutting sometimes. He hasn’t attacked her and often cuddles next to her when he is unsure or frightened by something he isn’t used to, but I’m wondering if this means they’re not a good match? They sometimes nip at each other without actually biting when saying they don’t like something but I figure this is pretty normal. There’s just a lot of rumbling coming from him at the moment and I love him so much and want him to have a forever home here. I know it can take a while for a bond to form, I’m just worried. He also rumbles when she tries to go into the hide he’s in, and she often sleeps under her wood bridge or another hide, will this pass? I theorise perhaps because he didn’t have a hide at the rescue that maybe he’s just very protective over it. He will let her in but will just rumble at her. I’ve seen this big, chonky boy popcorn in the cage and it makes my heart swell that he’s so happy. But he popcorned while rumbling tonight so maybe it was purring? I’m still trying to work out guinea pig behaviour and sounds!
I hope some of you can give me some insight and if I’ve left any details out, please let me know!
