rufcjoe87
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi
Apologies for the long post!
I'm looking for a bit of help with fighting boars. I have read other posts and the sticky's but I would love a little clarification if that's ok?![smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)
I have 2 boars, Henry and Arthur both 4-5 months old. We bought them together from the same pet shop about a month ago. They have been fine and steadily getting more confident.
Yesterday I came home from work to teeth chattering, up on the haunches etc. Arthur then chased Henry round (Arthur is slightly bigger and looks to be the dominant one). After a minute or two and a few nips they came together and fought, only for about 30 seconds and there was no blood. (Arthur does sometimes jut nip at/mount Henry, who takes it - think he just decided to fight back!)
Anyway they stood there chattering and did the same again so we separated them into their play pen.
After about an hour we put Henry in the play pen too (they are still wary of the pen and the hope was they would bond together over both being a little wary).
We went and bought 2 separate pigloos (rather than the 'communal' bed in the cage. Put them back after cleaning cage out and they were fine - ate together - slept separately, lovely.
This morning however, they were in the same piglloo and scuffling again, so we separated them. Then both in the play pen, seemed ok, Arthur a little irritated at sniffs from Henry, I then put them both back and Henry went into his bed and Arthur stood chattering his teeth in the doorway. I managed to get Athur into his bed and a few mins later Henry came out and Arthur could see him n didnt do anything - then i left for work.
My question is this - is this normal behaviour for this stage (i know the phases etc - just not sure at what point it's more than dominance behaviour) if so am i dealing with it correctly?
If it is not normal behaviour for this stage - how long do we give it until we separate them permanently. Obviously i don't want to do this and hope it's just 'a phase'. I have read a tonne of stuff on it but wonder if you guys could help.
Should i buy a new cage with a separator - will they grow out of it - should I leave them to it etc?
Any help appreciated n thanks for reading![smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)
Apologies for the long post!
I'm looking for a bit of help with fighting boars. I have read other posts and the sticky's but I would love a little clarification if that's ok?
![smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)
I have 2 boars, Henry and Arthur both 4-5 months old. We bought them together from the same pet shop about a month ago. They have been fine and steadily getting more confident.
Yesterday I came home from work to teeth chattering, up on the haunches etc. Arthur then chased Henry round (Arthur is slightly bigger and looks to be the dominant one). After a minute or two and a few nips they came together and fought, only for about 30 seconds and there was no blood. (Arthur does sometimes jut nip at/mount Henry, who takes it - think he just decided to fight back!)
Anyway they stood there chattering and did the same again so we separated them into their play pen.
After about an hour we put Henry in the play pen too (they are still wary of the pen and the hope was they would bond together over both being a little wary).
We went and bought 2 separate pigloos (rather than the 'communal' bed in the cage. Put them back after cleaning cage out and they were fine - ate together - slept separately, lovely.
This morning however, they were in the same piglloo and scuffling again, so we separated them. Then both in the play pen, seemed ok, Arthur a little irritated at sniffs from Henry, I then put them both back and Henry went into his bed and Arthur stood chattering his teeth in the doorway. I managed to get Athur into his bed and a few mins later Henry came out and Arthur could see him n didnt do anything - then i left for work.
My question is this - is this normal behaviour for this stage (i know the phases etc - just not sure at what point it's more than dominance behaviour) if so am i dealing with it correctly?
If it is not normal behaviour for this stage - how long do we give it until we separate them permanently. Obviously i don't want to do this and hope it's just 'a phase'. I have read a tonne of stuff on it but wonder if you guys could help.
Should i buy a new cage with a separator - will they grow out of it - should I leave them to it etc?
Any help appreciated n thanks for reading
![smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)