VBaamonde
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Cavy Slave
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So my 2 pigs Scamp (female, spayed, 10 month) and Peeve (male, neutered, 6 months) used to be best friends, and now seem to be enemies.
They pigs started living together in one cage in October, when Peeve was about half of Scamp's size. About 2 months later (early December) I found out that Peeve was a boy, and not a girl as I had been assured, so I separated them immediately. Scamp was then spayed and Peeve was then neutered, and yesterday, after having been apart for about 2 months, I tried reintroducing them.
Scamp has always been far more aggressive than Peeve, and their initial introduction in October was a little shaky, lots of chattering, rumblestrutting and some nips, but soon tempers settled, and the pigs became great cage-mates. I think this is because Peeve was significantly smaller than Scamp, so she may have realized she didn't need to be so tough. I started the reintroduction yesterday on the floor, where again Scamp showed signs of aggression, and did lunge at Peeve twice, but no damage was inflicted. After about 2 hours they seemed pretty comfortable with each other, so I tried putting them in their old, big cage. However, once in the cage for about 20 minutes, Scamp full on attacked Peeve, ripping out tufts of fur and scaring him horribly. The only reason I could imagine this drastic change is because Peeve is now bigger than Scamp, so maybe she feels threatened? But Peeve has never ever tried attacking her or even fighting back. I didn't know what else to do except put up a divide in their cage. Peeve cowered for hours, and whenever they made eye contact through the divide, loud chattering started on both ends.
I'm pretty upset and I don't know how to go about trying to get them to be friends again. They've now been in the cage together with the divide for about 24 hours. Peeve isn't scared to approach the divide anymore, and there is a lot less chattering, but should I try combined floor time again? Will they ever be able to be happy cage mates? Please help!
They pigs started living together in one cage in October, when Peeve was about half of Scamp's size. About 2 months later (early December) I found out that Peeve was a boy, and not a girl as I had been assured, so I separated them immediately. Scamp was then spayed and Peeve was then neutered, and yesterday, after having been apart for about 2 months, I tried reintroducing them.
Scamp has always been far more aggressive than Peeve, and their initial introduction in October was a little shaky, lots of chattering, rumblestrutting and some nips, but soon tempers settled, and the pigs became great cage-mates. I think this is because Peeve was significantly smaller than Scamp, so she may have realized she didn't need to be so tough. I started the reintroduction yesterday on the floor, where again Scamp showed signs of aggression, and did lunge at Peeve twice, but no damage was inflicted. After about 2 hours they seemed pretty comfortable with each other, so I tried putting them in their old, big cage. However, once in the cage for about 20 minutes, Scamp full on attacked Peeve, ripping out tufts of fur and scaring him horribly. The only reason I could imagine this drastic change is because Peeve is now bigger than Scamp, so maybe she feels threatened? But Peeve has never ever tried attacking her or even fighting back. I didn't know what else to do except put up a divide in their cage. Peeve cowered for hours, and whenever they made eye contact through the divide, loud chattering started on both ends.
I'm pretty upset and I don't know how to go about trying to get them to be friends again. They've now been in the cage together with the divide for about 24 hours. Peeve isn't scared to approach the divide anymore, and there is a lot less chattering, but should I try combined floor time again? Will they ever be able to be happy cage mates? Please help!
And yea I put a big pile of veggies down during floor time for them to share, Scamp dominated the pile and Peeve picked at the edges. I'll try the vanilla, thanks!
