PancakesWaffles
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2009
- Posts
- 62
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2009
- Messages
- 62
In October my guinea pigs had babies and I obviously removed my male guinea pig and put him into a seperate 2X4 cage. They had two babies and I had been hoping one would be a boy and one would be a girl, but that didn't work out and both are girls. Now my boy has been alone for a few months. Honestly, he seemed to be a lot more social by himself. He played with his toys more, greeted me, enjoyed investigating while I vacuumed or took pictures of him. I figured maybe he truly did need a friend, so I got another boar. They are only a few months a part in age (both are adolescents).
I introduced them in neutral territory, with a plate of veggies. They chattered their teeth at each other, sniffed each other and did very minimal attempts to mount each other. I supervised them for 30 minutes in the bathroom, with no real "attacks" so I put them in their (newly fleeced, sanitized, two of everything, nearly scent-free) cage together.
They just hide in their houses, chase each other in a circle once in a while and basically pay no attention to each other.
I can't decide if it went TOO well and pretty soon there is going to be a severe battle (it's been 24 hours in the cage) or if Waffles is peed off at me for sticking another boar in there with him.
Any advice on boar bonding would be much appreciated. Will they ever be BFFs? Or are they just going to continue virtually ignoring each other? Or am I going to have a blood bath one of these days?
I introduced them in neutral territory, with a plate of veggies. They chattered their teeth at each other, sniffed each other and did very minimal attempts to mount each other. I supervised them for 30 minutes in the bathroom, with no real "attacks" so I put them in their (newly fleeced, sanitized, two of everything, nearly scent-free) cage together.
They just hide in their houses, chase each other in a circle once in a while and basically pay no attention to each other.
I can't decide if it went TOO well and pretty soon there is going to be a severe battle (it's been 24 hours in the cage) or if Waffles is peed off at me for sticking another boar in there with him.
Any advice on boar bonding would be much appreciated. Will they ever be BFFs? Or are they just going to continue virtually ignoring each other? Or am I going to have a blood bath one of these days?