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I am taking the boys to their holiday home today and need some advice.

Normally if we go away they stay in a shop bought cage as it is easier for transportation, however as they have been bickering this week I am taking apart their C&C and rebuilding it at their holiday home.

They normally live in m living room but as my in laws have a dog they will be up stairs and not under my watchful eyes. Do you think its a good idea to put up a dividing panel in the cage for Christopher just to avoid things becoming bloody or am i best to leave them. I just dont want my in laws to have to stress if something goes wrong.
 
I would keep it divided so your inlaws have a stress free time caring for them x
 
I think if you split them up you're going to have to do the whole introduction thing starting from scratch. Will your in laws be able to check on them? I guess I'm saying, how keen are they on having them there? If you printed out the guide on here about what is normal behaviour and when to seperate them would they feel happy and confident to make that decision if the time came and they started to draw blood or would they be worried about it. If they're not confident then it would probably put your mind at rest if they're seperated. (the piggies, not the in laws!)
Does that make sense?
Will you have chance to monitor them in their new holiday set up before you go away? The change in environment could mean they treat it like neutral territory any way.
 
They've had Nigel and Gizmo before but not Christopher. My OH's mum is allergic so his Dad does all the cleaning duties hes fine with them but I wouldn't say confident. I think I will put up a divide then for my peace of mind as well as theirs. I have a couple of the grids with the larger holes spare so I will use those for the divide so they can still interact well. Hopefully that will mean that its not to difficult when the divide comes down.

Its typical that they decide to fall out as i'm going on holiday Boys!
 
If they can see each other and sniff through the bars it shouldn't adversely affect any potential re-introduction.
 
My boys are in a large C&C and they went to Lynnes (Holidayhutch) for a few days earlier in the year. My Pepper can be a bit stroppy with Salt sometimes so she had one in a 4ft shop bought cage and I took my 4ft holiday cage up and she had them side by side in her spare room. They had time out together for playtime. But I felt much happier that they wernt cooped up in a small space together as they were used to 6 times more space. They got home after their 'Jollies' and it was as though they had never left. :)
 
I took them up to the in laws this afternoon and set up the C&C with a separate section for Christopher. They normally let them have a run about in the bath so I've said they can all go in at once as that will be supervised. I think this way my mind is at rest and they can still talk to each other.
 
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