PLEASE HELP! My guinea pigs have lost their mind, won't stop fighting

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Please help, for the past hour my guinea pigs won't stop being crazy to each other. Randomly started at 3:30 am, now its 4:30 am.

I got Bomi and Yumi in May when Bomi was around 2 months old, Yumi around 6 months old.

Bomi used to keep trying to mount Yumi from the back, Yumi would mildly try to mount Bomi from the front (in exchange when Bomi starts).

Bomi has stopped trying to mount Yumi for weeks now, they were doing so good together and always sleep side to side or face to face.

They don't like being picked up or petted so I haven't done so in weeks but I still hand feed and let them climb me. When I first got Bomi, he was so tiny but when I picked him up today to move him I noticed he's gotten a lot bigger (still smaller then Yumi)

Anyways, so for the past hour they won't stop chasing around each other, Bomi keeps taking the initiative to mount Yumi from the back a million times, while Yumi jumps on Bomi's head. Usually they would both chill and hide for a bit when I speak or approach but they didn't stop chasing even when I tried to pick one of them up to seperate them. Finally caught Bomi and used a playpen to split their room. It didn't last 10 minutes, they went crazy trying to chase each other through the bars and bite on the bars (Bomi got a face injury when I used a playpen to seperate them last time even though it was just overnight, so I removed the playpen hoping they'll chill).

Then even when I was still sitting in their room, they kept chasing and trying to trap each other in a hidey. I removed the playpen, trapped Yumi in a 3ftx3ft rabbit cardboard hidey and closed all entrances. I kept Bomi in the rest of the room so he won't be able to enter the hidey Yumi is in, since Bomi is the craziest. Then I turned all lights off, completely pitch black. But Bomi won't stop screaming until now and never stopped throughout this all even when they're separated. Yumi is a broken-squeaker so he can't scream back.

Now Bomi is trying to chew on the cardboard hidey in attempt to go in where Yumi is now, and still won't stop wheaking agitatedly.

I'm so confused and don't know why this started happening, they were fine all day, and all past weeks. Sorry if I wrote so much, I'm just so confused and panicking.
 
They are both teenagers and it sounds like they may be experiencing a hormone spike - as long as it is just mounting and chasing.
You can separate them for a few days to let them settle and let the hormone spike pass. You can then try a neutral territory reintroduction in a few days time to see if they still want to be together.

If there has been a full on rolling around fight, then do not attempt to reintroduce them again. A full on fight is bond breaking and in such a situation they must live permanently apart

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I hope they can be rebonded once their hormones calm down. 😃
 
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