Aggression Biting and Other Fun Stuff

Well I hate to say it but if you reach in to grab a scared and angry pig with your bare hands you are going to get bit. Next time use a towel or something else to safely separate them without getting your self hurt. Do go see a doctor right away if the wound is that serious.

It's not fair to them to have to live in a pet store cage so if that is your choice you should probably consider rehoming them.

Is the one just climbing over a cube divider? Why not put a piece of plexiglass (the height of a cube) as the divider? Or create a lid for the one escaping? Or even at the division make a fleece forest with a cube, like a fake top?

Colorado Cavies said:

Well I hate to say it but if you reach in to grab a scared and angry pig with your bare hands you are going to get bit. Next time use a towel or something else to safely separate them without getting your self hurt. Do go see a doctor right away if the wound is that serious.

It's not fair to them to have to live in a pet store cage so if that is your choice you should probably consider rehoming them.

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It was either that or let them tear each other apart, which they've both gone to the vet for. Wasn't chancing that happening again, especially since the vet is closed on the weekend. I got a tetanus shot and bandages, and some antibiotics since my finger is now swollen like twice it's size, haha

I'm not saying permanently, but right now it's either their old cages or the makeshift cage that clearly isn't working out. I'm loathe to say it, but they really did act happier in the old cages. Little wheeking and popcorning and such since they moved, and it's been over a month, whereas before it was nearly constant. Iceland has nothing in way of C&C and plexiglass and whatnot, hence the bookcase in the first place...

I'm gonna find another solution, but I think for now it's simply safer for everyone to keep them in those cages. Really, I think even yall would choose pet store cage temporarily instead of letting them basically jump at each other and fight to the death at any given hour, especially when I'm not home. They REALLY don't like each other, I guess.

SeeSpotSit said:

Is the one just climbing over a cube divider? Why not put a piece of plexiglass (the height of a cube) as the divider? Or create a lid for the one escaping? Or even at the division make a fleece forest with a cube, like a fake top?

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No, it's a tall bookshelf in the middle. I literally have NO idea how they do it. At first I thought they were moving their huts to the shelf and then climbing on it, but once I walked in on Hazel standing on top of the bookshelf (NO IDEA HOW HE FITS ON THERE!!) and the hut was on the opposite side of the cage... I think they have levitation powers or something, I have no clue.

Try a sterile storage bin with plenty of ventilation

Sterile storage bins aren't good homes for guinea pigs, even with holes drilled in it, the ventilation is poor, and the ammonia would build up much faster, please don't go that route.