chippy11
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Cavy Slave
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Hi,
I'm new here and we just adopted a new piggy from the Seattle Animal Shelter a few weeks ago. They were great about spending time with us to make sure our pigs bonded. We have a 3 year old non-neutered male (Oreo) and got a 6 month neutered male (Tango). They seemed to be doing ok at the shelter. No fighting, just a lot of butt sniffing. When we brought them home, they spent neutral time together and Oreo seemed to get a bit more aggressive. He's a bigger pig. Lots of mounting and gutter rumbling. After about 4 days he finally chilled out and we put them in our cage together. We bought Tango a new house, but they've since switched houses. Yesterday we noticed this on Oreo (the older one). It looks more like a rash than a scratch as there is no blood around the fur.
Do pigs get rashes from stress? Could this be a bite or scratch, but was cleaned up by the time we saw it?
We took the new one to the vet last Friday and he checked out fine.
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I'm new here and we just adopted a new piggy from the Seattle Animal Shelter a few weeks ago. They were great about spending time with us to make sure our pigs bonded. We have a 3 year old non-neutered male (Oreo) and got a 6 month neutered male (Tango). They seemed to be doing ok at the shelter. No fighting, just a lot of butt sniffing. When we brought them home, they spent neutral time together and Oreo seemed to get a bit more aggressive. He's a bigger pig. Lots of mounting and gutter rumbling. After about 4 days he finally chilled out and we put them in our cage together. We bought Tango a new house, but they've since switched houses. Yesterday we noticed this on Oreo (the older one). It looks more like a rash than a scratch as there is no blood around the fur.
Do pigs get rashes from stress? Could this be a bite or scratch, but was cleaned up by the time we saw it?
We took the new one to the vet last Friday and he checked out fine.
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