New Member / New Cavy Owner

[NewGPMom]

Hanna--I also experienced the same thing with sneezing when I put my girls on Kiln-dried pine. It was too dusty and they were sneezing like crazy. After 3 seperate trips to the vet, it finally dawned on me that maybe it was the litter. So I changed to aspen and that was the end of the constant sneezing. Now they sneeze occasionally but not more than 2-3 times a day.

[Mummy]

I'd do a triple check of the sexes of both animals too, before you put them together. Petshops are notorious for mis-sexing guinea pigs - and many vets have made mistakes also. At 6 months the testicles should be descended, so it shouldn't be too hard.

With two males of that age be sure to house them in a big enough C&C. Males going through adolescence together need lots of space!

[Giplet]

Oh yay! You are getting a new piggy and making a piggy happy and helping out your sister and all good things are coming of you adopting this new piggy so it has to work out because there is such good karma. Yay!

[Piglet]

Woo! What great news - like the above posts have said check the sexes of both guinea pigs. Quarantine the new guy for 2-3 weeks in another room and do introductions on neutral terrortory

[Hansel]

One of the most important things when housing two males is to make SURE you have a large enough cage to properly house two pigs, and two fo everything else. If you dont you will more than likely find that they will fight A LOT! Thats great that you are getting him a buddy, he will thank you for that.