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Junior Guinea Pig
Hi everyone i am after some advice please 
I have 8 guinea pigs and out of all of them only 2 are together. I have 2 that were bought first from P@H and they were together until they had a big fight and had to be seperated. I also bought another at the same time that was alone in a different pet shop, he had a sign saying that he had to be kept alone as he was a bully, something that I don't think they should have said as he was barely 3 months and just seemed a bit boisterous. It wasn't long after that I read up and realised that pet shops were not good. I then got two bonded males from a local rescue and the difference was amazing! These are the two that are still together. An ex friend of mine then bought two male pigs from a breeder and when after only a few days they were showing the usual dominance display she seperated them, after literally 2 weeks she had them on facebook trying to sell them! In the end i said I would take them as she was not getting a buyer and the pigs were being badly neglected (hence ex friend), I have since tried putting them back together but it resulted in a fight. Finally I have a little girl, she was rescued from the side of the road in a box with her brother dead beside her 8... I now have plans to get one of my single boys done (he is very sweet) and pair him with my only female, but this then leaves me with 4 single boars. I dont think any could go together as they are all very bossy but I hate them being alone, currently they are in dog crates stacked in twos next to each other so that they have company but I am not sure if this is good enough? If i could afford it I would love to find them all a pal each but I worry I will end up with yet more single pigs! What would you do? x
I have 8 guinea pigs and out of all of them only 2 are together. I have 2 that were bought first from P@H and they were together until they had a big fight and had to be seperated. I also bought another at the same time that was alone in a different pet shop, he had a sign saying that he had to be kept alone as he was a bully, something that I don't think they should have said as he was barely 3 months and just seemed a bit boisterous. It wasn't long after that I read up and realised that pet shops were not good. I then got two bonded males from a local rescue and the difference was amazing! These are the two that are still together. An ex friend of mine then bought two male pigs from a breeder and when after only a few days they were showing the usual dominance display she seperated them, after literally 2 weeks she had them on facebook trying to sell them! In the end i said I would take them as she was not getting a buyer and the pigs were being badly neglected (hence ex friend), I have since tried putting them back together but it resulted in a fight. Finally I have a little girl, she was rescued from the side of the road in a box with her brother dead beside her 8... I now have plans to get one of my single boys done (he is very sweet) and pair him with my only female, but this then leaves me with 4 single boars. I dont think any could go together as they are all very bossy but I hate them being alone, currently they are in dog crates stacked in twos next to each other so that they have company but I am not sure if this is good enough? If i could afford it I would love to find them all a pal each but I worry I will end up with yet more single pigs! What would you do? x
Thank goodness she is with you now. If you get one of your boars neutered and can pair them up that will be nice. As for the others, have you tried bonding different pairs together? Often with boars one of the main problems is lack of space. Once they have space they can happily accept another boar. I do not know how much space you have but c and c cages are ideal for giving enough space.