Update On My Two Boars: I Need Some Advice!

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Hey everyone.

Yesterday, I was downstairs in my living room. My pigs are in my room. My brother comes up to me and says, "Hey Liam, are Bojangles and Chester supposed to be in the same cage? Is it like a bonding thing?" I was like "What? Why did you do that?" And I rushes upstairs to find my in-bonded boars in the same square of my floor pen. Probably what happened was Chester, who is always attempting to chew open the grids, got what he wanted and then crap hit the fan. That was last evening for me about 6:00 PM. It's 7:04 AM for me now. (I wake up early.) Ever since then, the dominant pig, (Bojangles) has been chattering away because he moved into Chester's territory. Chester, on the other hand, keeps moving to the same spot in his cage, terrified and just sits in a little lump and won't move. This is bad. Last night he was so scared he wouldn't move and he didn't run away from me when I picked him up or stroked him to calm him down, and he hates human contact. He avoids it at all costs. Right now he's just sitting in his square, petrified.
So anyway, that was a huge fallout for them and is going to make permanent bonding even harder. My dad says with time they'll both calm down and forget about it. It reminds me of putting them back after bonding attempts, and they get all rowled up but eventually calm down. Will they? This scared Chester pretty bad. I really want to know that this will calm itself down and I won't have to worry about it.
Any advice is welcome,
-Liam
 
PiggyProdigy said:
Hey everyone.

Yesterday, I was downstairs in my living room. My pigs are in my room. My brother comes up to me and says, "Hey Liam, are Bojangles and Chester supposed to be in the same cage? Is it like a bonding thing?" I was like "What? Why did you do that?" And I rushes upstairs to find my in-bonded boars in the same square of my floor pen. Probably what happened was Chester, who is always attempting to chew open the grids, got what he wanted and then crap hit the fan. That was last evening for me about 6:00 PM. It's 7:04 AM for me now. (I wake up early.) Ever since then, the dominant pig, (Bojangles) has been chattering away because he moved into Chester's territory. Chester, on the other hand, keeps moving to the same spot in his cage, terrified and just sits in a little lump and won't move. This is bad. Last night he was so scared he wouldn't move and he didn't run away from me when I picked him up or stroked him to calm him down, and he hates human contact. He avoids it at all costs. Right now he's just sitting in his square, petrified.
So anyway, that was a huge fallout for them and is going to make permanent bonding even harder. My dad says with time they'll both calm down and forget about it. It reminds me of putting them back after bonding attempts, and they get all rowled up but eventually calm down. Will they? This scared Chester pretty bad. I really want to know that this will calm itself down and I won't have to worry about it.
Any advice is welcome,
-Liam
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Please make sure that your boys cannot get into each other's pen.

I doubt that they will every get back together; it sounds like chester has been bullied and frightened too badly. But they can still live as next door neighbours in a "can't live together but still bonded" way as long as they can give each other stimulation and interaction through the bars. A number of members has fallen-out boars this way. Cage invasions never go down well, whatever the gender. ;)
 
@Wiebke Dam. I'll still try in time but thanks for the advice I guess. Although I'm 90% sure it was Chester who chewed the bars through, however that doesn't make any difference in his frightening...
 
@Tiamolly123 the only time they were was when I discovered one had broken through the grids. Since last evening I have reinforced them and their relation with each other has slowly started to increase
 
Update: It's 7:00 PM now. I did a massive full on cage and room clean, and for hours now there has been no hostile or dominant signs between the two. They seem very happy and active.
 
If someone can correct me but when Guinea Pigs are separate do they still show Dominant Behavior behind the bars?
 
Mine do I have 2 both neutered, they come up to the divider, plenty of verbals, & wriggling they bum.
Little darlings.
 
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