toodledoodler
New Born Pup
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Hello everyone! It’s me *again*, the most worried pig dad in the world. I have 3-month-old boars who haven’t gotten along great since I got them 3 weeks ago, but since then, it’s gotten much worse. No actual fighting with blood, but they’re chattering very loudly ALL the time, to the point where they can’t be out in the cage at the same time without it happening at least every 10 minutes. The submissive one actually full-on lunged at the dominant one yesterday, who then got spooked and ran away. Freddie (dominant) chases Wilbur around even more now, and is constantly disturbing him when he’s eating or trying to relax. They can’t even have floor time together without squabbling, and I am so, so scared and anxious that Wilbur is going to get hurt. I separated them for a couple hours during floor time so that I could clean their cage (if I had them together I would have to watch them the entire time), and Wilbur REALLY perked up. He was happy, explored his surroundings, and popcorned, which is new for him. As soon as Freddie wasn’t there to constantly bug him and scare him off, he was a totally different pig. Freddie was the same, they didn’t seem to look for each other. Wilbur cannot take Freddie’s energy level as he’s more calm and Fred is super energetic, and gets very annoyed when Fred is running and popcorning around. Should I still try to make this work or should I just face that they don’t get along and separate them? I am so lost on this and I’m terrified of messing up, my previous boars loved each other, I feel confused and worried all the time
I’ve tried everything, but as soon as they’re out in the cage together, this happens. It’s escalated very drastically these past few days. They’re on day 2 of antibiotics for an URI, if that matters. I love them so dearly and just want them to be happy ![Red heart :heart: ❤️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2764.png)
![Crying face :cry: 😢](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
![Red heart :heart: ❤️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2764.png)