I Think A Made Everything Wrong With The Introduction Of Two Male Piggies

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I read multiple times the guide of how to introduce two male piggies. The problem was that I couldn't translated so good in my language, I asked ohe of my British friends yesterday to translate it to me, and I found many mistakes that I've done during the introduction. But anyway even if I made a lot mistakes, my boys seem to get along pretty well ( right now they're relaxing next to each other, in Ratisilaos bed). But the mistakes I've done, could they affect their friendship in the future?
 
I read multiple times the guide of how to introduce two male piggies. The problem was that I couldn't translated so good in my language, I asked ohe of my British friends yesterday to translate it to me, and I found many mistakes that I've done during the introduction. But anyway even if I made a lot mistakes, my boys seem to get along pretty well ( right now they're relaxing next to each other, in Ratisilaos bed). But the mistakes I've done, could they affect their friendship in the future?

Take a deep breath - no, the mistakes will not affect their future relationship. Their bond is going to develop once your two boys are going through the teenage months and are growing up, the same as human teenagers don't grow up nicely and it is going to change again when their hormones settle down as adults, but they are together because they WANT to be together! :tu:

Our bonding guides are here as a help to understand what is going on when you have never bonded before and to hopefully prevent newbies from just dropping a guinea pig into another one's cage or from separating too early because they do not understand dominance behaviours. You are not the only one with anxiety issues that has fallen into that trap. ;)

Good that you have found somebody to help you translate as most of our specific behaviour terms are not covered in a dictionary! Since I am not a native English speaker myself and only started learning the basics as a teenager at school I appreciate your problems! I have learned most of my English by reading books and then living in the country and watching a lot of tv in the early years to understand the different accents and slang. I still have a very noticeable Swiss/German accent when I speak (as those members that have met me can attest) and I still struggle with words that contain both a w and v close together. :eek:
 
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I realised when I first bonded a lone piggy (boar) with 2 new cage mates (sows) that I did it all wrong too.
They hadn't read the guidelines either and did things their own way. They all lived happily together, although, sadly, 2 of them have since passed away and only Merab is left of the original trio.
I'm sure the boys will stay settled together and be contented with each other's company
 
Take a deep breath - no, the mistakes will not affect their future relationship. Their bond is going to develop once your two boys are going through the teenage months and are growing up, the same as human teenagers don't grow up nicely and it is going to change again when their hormones settle down as adults, but they are together because they WANT to be together! :tu:

Our bonding guides are here as a help to understand what is going on when you have never bonded before and to hopefully prevent newbies from just dropping a guinea pig into another one's cage or from separating too early because they do not understand dominance behaviours. You are not the only one with anxiety issues that has fallen into that trap. ;)

Good that you have found somebody to help you translate as most of our specific behaviour terms are not covered in a dictionary! Since I am not a native English speaker myself and only started learning the basics as a teenager at school I appreciate your problems! I have learned most of my English by reading books and then living in the country and watching a lot of tv in the early years to understand the different accents and slang. I still have a very noticeable Swiss/German accent when I speak (as those members that have met me can attest) and I still struggle with words that contain both a w and v close together. :eek:

I hope so. At least they're fine together now. Yes it's really difficult to speak english or to understand some words sometimes. Basically I don't even know how I speak English, even not that good, we didn't have an English teacher at school.
 
I hope so. At least they're fine together now. Yes it's really difficult to speak english or to understand some words sometimes. Basically I don't even know how I speak English, even not that good, we didn't have an English teacher at school.
English is not the easiest language and you do have to learn a new alphabet. I found Greek difficult at college and your Rnglish is perfectly understandable.
 
I realised when I first bonded a lone piggy (boar) with 2 new cage mates (sows) that I did it all wrong too.
They hadn't read the guidelines either and did things their own way. They all lived happily together, although, sadly, 2 of them have since passed away and only Merab is left of the original trio.
I'm sure the boys will stay settled together and be contented with each other's company
Given the general standard of language teaching in British schools and our terrible record at learning other languages I applaud all non-native English speakers on this forum. You put us to shame.
Your trio of piggies, give me some hope!
I might learn to spell one day - last post should have read English, not Rngrish!
Haha it's okay. Yes English are difficult, especially if you learnt english only because you communicate with tourists from England in the summer, and not from school.
 
I hope so. At least they're fine together now. Yes it's really difficult to speak english or to understand some words sometimes. Basically I don't even know how I speak English, even not that good, we didn't have an English teacher at school.

Your English is very good! If you struggle with a specific word, you can always ask us to explain its meaning. ;)
 
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