Spoon27
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Hello,
I just found this forum and it seems like a fantastic wealth of guinea pig knowledge.
Lovely to meet you all.
I'm after some advice about aggressive dominant behaviour.
We have two piggies a 1.5 year old girl Lizzie and a 6 month old boy Creek. We got Creek 2 months ago after Lizzie's sister sadly died. We are fairly new to caring for guinea pigs and had only had Lizzie and her sister for a couple of months.
Creek and Lizzie took a little while to sort out their dominance hierarchy but after a while were happily bonded with Lizzie on top.
Last week we moved house and they at first seemed very happy in the new house and generally everything was great.
But two days ago they started fighting. I realised that Creek was doing some dominance behaviour (teeth chattering and but wiggling) and Lizzie was responding in kind and then chasing him around and nipping him. I separated them for the afternoon then put them back together yesterday and all seemed good again.
But today they've started up again and it again got to the point that I felt I needed to separate them. They've spent the day in separate areas where they can still see each other and they've been teeth chattering on and off all day.
I'm not sure what's going on or what to do. Both of them seem healthy and fine. Lizzie had a vet check last week and all was good.
I want them to be happy together again. I don't know if I'm just overreacting and they are actually fine together. Or if I need to restart the gentle bonding process we did 2 months ago.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I just found this forum and it seems like a fantastic wealth of guinea pig knowledge.
Lovely to meet you all.
I'm after some advice about aggressive dominant behaviour.
We have two piggies a 1.5 year old girl Lizzie and a 6 month old boy Creek. We got Creek 2 months ago after Lizzie's sister sadly died. We are fairly new to caring for guinea pigs and had only had Lizzie and her sister for a couple of months.
Creek and Lizzie took a little while to sort out their dominance hierarchy but after a while were happily bonded with Lizzie on top.
Last week we moved house and they at first seemed very happy in the new house and generally everything was great.
But two days ago they started fighting. I realised that Creek was doing some dominance behaviour (teeth chattering and but wiggling) and Lizzie was responding in kind and then chasing him around and nipping him. I separated them for the afternoon then put them back together yesterday and all seemed good again.
But today they've started up again and it again got to the point that I felt I needed to separate them. They've spent the day in separate areas where they can still see each other and they've been teeth chattering on and off all day.
I'm not sure what's going on or what to do. Both of them seem healthy and fine. Lizzie had a vet check last week and all was good.
I want them to be happy together again. I don't know if I'm just overreacting and they are actually fine together. Or if I need to restart the gentle bonding process we did 2 months ago.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!