Lazw
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi all,
My lovely agouti bramble was bereaved on Tuesday when we lost our old piggy milly. Bramble was obsessed with milly and loved her to pieces, so understandably was bereft when we lost her. I got a 6 week old baby yesterday and whilst introductions were lively, bramble chasing little one endlessly and nipping at her a lot, there was no chatting teeth, no fur being ripped out and no visible bites. They spent their first night together last night and bram is alternating between sniffing the little ones bum very enthusiastically to chasing her round and round with nipping when she corners or catches her. As I type, they're both sat chomping in hay away from each other, but I'm enjoying the calm.
I've read on here and elsewhere to just leave them to it unless there's blood, it looks rub and very mean but I don't know if I'm humanising their behaviours when clearly they are piggies, not people and perhaps this is all good in their world!
If nothing else, the little one has livened bramble right up, I've never seen her with so much life even if she is being mean. Just for info, bramble is 9 months old and was very much the submissive pig in her last pairing. How times change!
Does all this sound within the normal behavioural ranges for sow bonding? It's just all the chasing and headbutting/nipping from bramble that is horrible to watch but then my old piggy did this to bramble when she was tiny and they got on like a house on fire in the end. Thanks for reading
My lovely agouti bramble was bereaved on Tuesday when we lost our old piggy milly. Bramble was obsessed with milly and loved her to pieces, so understandably was bereft when we lost her. I got a 6 week old baby yesterday and whilst introductions were lively, bramble chasing little one endlessly and nipping at her a lot, there was no chatting teeth, no fur being ripped out and no visible bites. They spent their first night together last night and bram is alternating between sniffing the little ones bum very enthusiastically to chasing her round and round with nipping when she corners or catches her. As I type, they're both sat chomping in hay away from each other, but I'm enjoying the calm.
I've read on here and elsewhere to just leave them to it unless there's blood, it looks rub and very mean but I don't know if I'm humanising their behaviours when clearly they are piggies, not people and perhaps this is all good in their world!
If nothing else, the little one has livened bramble right up, I've never seen her with so much life even if she is being mean. Just for info, bramble is 9 months old and was very much the submissive pig in her last pairing. How times change!
Does all this sound within the normal behavioural ranges for sow bonding? It's just all the chasing and headbutting/nipping from bramble that is horrible to watch but then my old piggy did this to bramble when she was tiny and they got on like a house on fire in the end. Thanks for reading
