Hello,
I have two female guinea pigs. They live in a big two stories cage. Both are 3 months old and were bought together. Now they've settled in their new home and they started testing the dominance. That went on for two days. But now one of them started to chatther teeth and the fur is up when she doesn't like something. She also started doing this to me. Now this doesn't happen everytime, but it does happen every few hours that this one is chasing the other one through the whole cage. The other one is scared now. They both selected to sleep on their own floor and it's okay. But the less dominant one can't come to the other one's floor or she gets chased. And if the other one is on her floor she chases her to the house and the less dominant one can't come out. I've now had to separate them through the night because I can't sleep anymore. Now I saw that the dominant one chased the other to her floor and had some fur in the mouth, so that means that she started to bite her. It hasn't been nothing more serious than that. Can you give me some help as to how to deal with this? It's a problem to separate them in one floor so that they could sniff each other because then the cage is too small, but I'll figure it out if I have to. Do you have any idea?
Thank you for your help.
I have two female guinea pigs. They live in a big two stories cage. Both are 3 months old and were bought together. Now they've settled in their new home and they started testing the dominance. That went on for two days. But now one of them started to chatther teeth and the fur is up when she doesn't like something. She also started doing this to me. Now this doesn't happen everytime, but it does happen every few hours that this one is chasing the other one through the whole cage. The other one is scared now. They both selected to sleep on their own floor and it's okay. But the less dominant one can't come to the other one's floor or she gets chased. And if the other one is on her floor she chases her to the house and the less dominant one can't come out. I've now had to separate them through the night because I can't sleep anymore. Now I saw that the dominant one chased the other to her floor and had some fur in the mouth, so that means that she started to bite her. It hasn't been nothing more serious than that. Can you give me some help as to how to deal with this? It's a problem to separate them in one floor so that they could sniff each other because then the cage is too small, but I'll figure it out if I have to. Do you have any idea?
Thank you for your help.