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So with all of Sundae’s health issues, I have been seperating her from Spooky in the evening and they are both in their own cages at night. The main reason is that poor Sundae takes a lot of time to eat her veggies and Spooky is a walking vacuum!
The cages are side by side and they can see each other and touch noses if needed.
They are exercised together in the neutral zone from about noon until bedtime, around 8 hours. At this point they explore and eat hay and nap together. This has been going on for about a month now and Sundae has started to chatter her teeth from time to time at Spooky. Spooky usually backs down and popcorns off and there has been no fighting or aggression.
Should I be worried that they are not together 24/7? Does anyone have piggies in the same situation?
 
Unfortunately guinea pigs don't do playdates. Everytime you separate them and then put them back together they have to start from square one for the bonding so it is likely that now both piggies are very stressed and it's starting to come out in their behaviours. Ideally you would leave them living together but if one does not get chance to eat veggies you could separate for 30-60 mins each feeding time to allow them to eat veg separately before being put back together.
 
I have nothing more to add than what lady Kelly has already, I understand you situation with the veg, I have the same thing, but all I do is take Honey out for laptime and veggies while I leave Willow to eat hers in the cage. This also allows me to give Honey her pro-C and ensure Honey is eating everything up (she recently had an op that she is still partially recovering from)

I would suggest, doing one last and final "bonding" session ('play date') and then have them in the same accommodation if the bonding goes well... could we see your set up? And maybe there's a way of combining the two cages so that they get double the space and one cage isn't left unused.
 
Please do not separate and instead feed veg and pellets twice daily away from the cage. Keep in mind that over 80% of the daily food intake is hay, which you can only monitor by weighing each day Honey before you give her her dinner.

Here is a little video of my Carwyn getting a little pellet top up away from his wife during the last weeks of his life on my living room armchair with cotton towel on the seat and a fleece thrown over it for protection:
 
Wiebke said:
Please do not separate and instead feed veg and pellets twice daily away from the cage. Keep in mind that over 80% of the daily food intake is hay, which you can only monitor by weighing each day Honey before you give her her dinner.

Here is a little video of my Carwyn getting a little pellet top up away from his wife during the last weeks of his life on my living room armchair with cotton towel on the seat and a fleece thrown over it for protection:
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Is this message directed at me as you've said Honey?
 
I will keep them seperate as it takes Sundae a lot of time to eat with her jaw issues and I dont want to rush her through eating. She is fianlly off syringe feeding after a months time and I really dont want to start that up again as it is too stressful on her.
I figured the occassional teeth chattering was normal as they sleep cuddled up every afternoon for their nap, and munch hay side by side without any squabble.
 
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