Not Ranked. Helpful AND tactful post? : 0 At what point will one give up? | | If you remember back to any of my past posts about fighting, I have two guinea pigs that are both right around 6 months old from best guess. Chuck we think is a little older by a month maybe. We got Chuck in December, and Shadow at the beginning of January. For a couple months they got along pretty well. Some rumblestrutting and mounting by Chuck, but nothing serious. Then as Shadow started getting a llittle bigger, he didn't want to be the low man on the totem pole anymore. They started fighting, blood was shed a couple of times, and now they are in seperate cages.
My question for any of you who have gone through this, at what point will one pig give up dominance? Will they ever? There are a lot of times when they act really interested in the other (they can see each other from their cages). So every couple weeks I will put them out on the floor together to see how they react. Fighting ensues....back to their seperate cages they go.
Am I being naive to think that they will ever get along? Am I just being impatient? It's just hard for me to see everyone on this website with multiple pigs all getting along for the most part. Why do I end up with the two stubborn ones? Any advice? |