HELP! Possibly urgent?

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Uh, my boys seem to be getting mad with eachother. They keep getting face to face and then doing this weird thing with their teeth(showing them to eachother as if to bite, but they don't bite)and gnashing their teeth back and forth to eachother! They have been good buddies for almost 2 weeks now. Why would they all the sudden not like eachother? Do I have to separate them? I don't have room for two cages! :-\
 
Watch them very carefully, as teeth-chattering is a threat. If they begin to fight, put a towel over one (this will calm them down, much like covering a horse's eyes), pull the one you have in the towel out, and separate them. After that you can try to bond them by holding them at the same time, bathing them together, letting them play on neutral ground, etc. Good luck and keep us posted!

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I keep going in there and they are laying together and eating together again. I don't get it. :-\
 
If they're not fighting and there's no injuries then there is no reason to separate them. Hopefully they just had a tift or a misunderstanding of the pecking order and it's all better now.

Kimmie
 
Thank you. I'll keeo a very close eye on them over the next few days and hold them together even more than I do now.

The only thing that bothers me still is that Chip is always making circles around Nemo, making this very happy noise and then tries to mount him. Nemo hates it. ? They are both confirmed boys, so I don't understand why he does that. Actually, they have both done it today. :o
 
No problem, that's what this forum is for :). If they're both confirmed boys then it's a definite dominance thing. We once had a boy come in that was exposed to a female in heat and treated every thing that moved as his sex toy. We didn't have enough money to get him neutered, we didn't need any more babies, and he fought with guinea pigs that were big enough to let him know they didn't appreciate it. However, we put him with a young male and they kept mounting each other and such, but after a while Cutie (that was his name) left him alone and accepted him as a friend rather than a friend with benefits. There's nothing to worry about if there are no injuries.

Kimmie
 
A lot of the time, mounting between boys, especially ones who haven't been together that long is usually them just trying to sort out dominance issues as KimmiesGuineas said. My two are a bonded father and son and still have little squabbles ::) Unless there is major teeth chattering and rearing up involved I just keep an eye on them just in case, but have never needed to seperate them yet (fingers crossed).
 
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