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I'm so annoyed right now, all was going so well with my new quad - Rajah,Basil,Ralph & brutus.

rajah has just gotten increasingly worse bum waggling, chasing the other three whenever they leave a pigloo, raping all three poor boys and a common thing which he has done to Brutus is walking circles around him and throwing his weight into Brutus basically he is just a bully.

Last night i was in the lounge and heard the loudest piggy scream, i ran to the cage and Rajah was chasing Ralph and biting him on the rump, i took Ralphy out and he was crying and really scared, he had little puncture holes and blood on his back and also little bits of hair missing.

Thankfully there were no other injurys to any of the pigs but i had to make the call to divide the 3 x 6 so that Rajah has a 2 x 3 thats joined so he can still have company.

Despite the divider Rajah is going nuts chewing the bars/bum waggling and chattering constantly, he isnt sleeping much due to this obsession,

I really dont want to seperate his cage altogether because then he wont have any company but I'm a little unsure what else i an do, Ralph is scared out of his mind of Rajah and i only hope his gentle loving personality comes back because right now he wont leave the pigloo much which isnt like him.

Ralph,Brutus and Basil have remained close so i think they will work great as a trio,

I really think these boys need a leader piggy that isnt overly dominant so I'm thinking after the boys have time to recover and Brutus puts on more weight I'm going to try introduce Bart and Rascal to them, I shouldnt really attempt 5 piggies but if i dont i would have another single piggy, Rascal is submissive and Bart appears to be a leade but not aggressive so it may work.

Piggy politics are so annoying lol
 
I am so sorry that Rajah turned out to be such a bully! It probably may help the situation if he cannot see the other boys right now, so everypig can calm down. Sadly, bonding so many boars is not easy.

Piggy politics are far more complicated than we usually assume. Speaks the lady with three girls in season/coming into season at the same time! mallethead
 
I am so sorry they are not getting on. But you have not failed, it is just them being animals and boars will be boars. It is not your fault at all and I am sure that a solution will be found soon.
 
thanks everyone, yes I'm hoping things will calm down, i can block Rajahs view from the other pigs but i will only do it as a temp measure as its so isolated to do long term, xx
 
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