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Thank you! I am keeping my fingers crossed for the introduction!

My boyfriend and I just adopted a spayed female (Mooncake) who is 3 years old. After quarantine, we plan to introduce her to our boar (Flaco Paco) who, sadly, lost his beloved cagemate about a month and a half ago. Flaco is 4 years old. Does anyone have any advice or experience on introducing...

Thank you, everyone! I may try to find a rubbermaid bin and poke holes in it with sharp scissors in order to fasten a grid down the middle...

Does anyone know where to purchase a good, sturdy, divided travel carrier? My pigs don't get along when put together in a space as small as a carrier, so I'd like to divide them (it seems like the best way to carry them (in the car) would be in a divided carrier, so they can see each other for...

Great! Vinegar and water is less stressful than bleach. Update: I'm cleaning the cage now. They've been in their neutral floor area for 2 hours, 15 minutes. They've each been in their own pigloo for about the last hour. Pretty non-eventful. Please keep your fingers crossed that they will...

Oooh! I hope mine never have any aggression once in the cage!!! That would be so amazing! I'm not counting on it, though. I've added the pigloos. There was momentary peace and now Flaco wants to get in the same pigloo as Nosophoros. They've been together an hour and 5 minutes, and...

Thanks- it's such a relief to get "real-time" help!! I wonder why they go at it and then get distracted. Why can't they just figure it out in one tiff and then calm down?!?! :) Okay, I know I'm a little impatient! Flaco-paco seems to be the one instigating most of the aggression. He's the...

Thanks for such a quick response! The general pattern they've been following is: eat hay, argue, eat hay, argue. By "argue," I mean nose-off and hump and chatter (but not for too long). And it's SO SMELLY! In some ways, it seems like it's heating up, in that the "arguments" are getting a...

I'm in the middle of introductions of my two boars: Nosophoros (almost 4 years), and Flaco-paco (about 7 months). They've been in a neutral space (on the floor) for about 35 minutes. There's a pile of hay intermingled with veggies. I'm seeing some mounting, rumbling, nose-offs, and they're...

Thanks NMPiggyMom! Anyone else have any similar success (or lack thereof) stories?

About one year ago, I introduced two males, Wallie and Nosophoros, and received a *tremendous* amount of help from this site. Thank you!! In August, little Wallie passed away and I've adopted a new buddy for Nosophoros--his name is "Flaco-Paco." It's nearing the end of the three week...

Dear Everyone, I'm very pleased to announce that I've adopted another piggy! His name, I *think*, will be "Flaco-paco." He's a real sweetie. We lost our dear Wallie in early August and wanted a companion for the surviving Nosophoros. I found little Flaco on craigslist and he stole my heart...

Yes, it does seem like you and Tuppy share a special connection. That's why you'll be able to render such accurate translations of her diary entries! :cheerful: can't wait to read them! all the best to both of you and the rest of your beautiful herd.

CCC- I just went to Princess Tuppence's Fan Club site and it is amazing!!! Yay! And I read there that it is *your* birthday today!! Happy Birthday!!!!!❤️ That's awesome that your birthday is the day after the Princess'! Thanks for all the help you've given me (both directly and indirectly...

Tuppence, most beloved belated birthday wishes from some of your most enthusiastic and humble admirers!! love, ginger, wallie, and nosophoros

Sally (pooksied animals) said she took the name of everypig as he/she arrived - there turned out to be 70 pigs!!

thank you very much jdomans (and everyone). I just hope I made the right decision by separating. This is my first pair of guinea pigs and it's hard for me to fully read what's best for them. Would you have separated them in my position?

Their cage before was 2x4. I then made a 3.5 x 4 (in anticipation of separating) and let them be in there together for about 5 days or so. They still seemed to be fighting a lot, so I went ahead and separated them (now they each have a 2 x 3.5). The whole decision has been really stressful and...

hmm.. not really like a percolator. Do you mean just the rhythm, or the actual quaility of the sound? If it's just the rhythm, it's possible. If it's the quality of the sound, then it's not what Wallie's doing. It's really like he's mumbling "wheek, wheek, wheek" to himself quietly and not...

It's a little whiny. and definitely like a muttering to himself. It's like he's wheeking, but just mumbling the wheeking! It certainly may be because he misses his buddy. He has been biting the bars a fair amount. The noise didn't start until about 3 weeks after the separation, but maybe...