Lonely?

[R-stony]

My two boars have been living in their own cages for 3 months now, but see each other through a gate every day for most of the day. They tend to lie next to each other, eat together and have sometimes even spotted them licking through the Gate.
However, when I attempt to put them together for a bit they don’t have any of it - one is usually trying to bite whilst the other just squeaks and hides.

They are now approaching 8 months. Is there a chance they will one day live together again? I hate them being separated, especially at night when I close their cages.

 

[Wiebke]

My two boars have been living in their own cages for 3 months now, but see each other through a gate every day for most of the day. They tend to lie next to each other, eat together and have sometimes even spotted them licking through the Gate.
However, when I attempt to put them together for a bit they don’t have any of it - one is usually trying to bite whilst the other just squeaks and hides.

They are now approaching 8 months. Is there a chance they will one day live together again? I hate them being separated, especially at night when I close their cages.

They are still teenagers and not middle aged adults whose testosterone output is gradully settling down. But they are very much one of these bonded boar pairs that we call 'can't live together and can't live apart' with each their own territory but still a working bond through the bars.

We all wish our pets to have a happy life, but piggies tend to very much have their own mind. Unfortunately the vast majority of fallen-out boars will not go back together. Your two seem to have a certain amount of grudge between them, so your wish is rather unlikely to be fulfilled, I am very sorry to say. They may come as far as tolerating joint lawn time in a few years, but certainly not this summer and may be not the next, either.

PS: Most people are not aware that lying next to each other across the fence is not necessarily affection, but a territorial dominance behaviour. Because it is consistently misinterpreted, it is little known; usually only by people who do a lot of bonding and have made the same experience with piggies of either gender as you.