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I have 5 guinea pigs in my house, but 2 are my sister's (bo and doug) so they are in a separate cage. Everything was fine and dandy until we noticed bo would full speed chase doug around the cage and doug was afraid to leave his hidey because of it. and suddleny out of my pigs (patches, Mako, jamie), mako has started to nip and chase jamie (not as harshly as bo does, so i wasnt too worries about it)
So we tried switching bo to my cage and my quiet pig, patches to the other. and now Mako is bitting the heck out of bo to where he has little scabs all over his butt. I've tried washing the three together, resetting their cage, making it bigger. I really don't know what to do and it's freaking me out because they were perfectly fine before. Maybe I have to make the cages even bigger? I also put two of food/water in the cage with the fighting pigs. Since i have to work I gave up and put Bo in a smaller petstore "playpen" because I don't want him to feel terrorized.
side note: Doug and Mako hate each other and I'm not sure if they'll ever get along. last time we tried to introduce them, it ended in a nasty bite to Mako's foot. Their cages are also in the same room? which might have something to do with it. idk I'm just stressin out.
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I have 5 guinea pigs in my house, but 2 are my sister's (bo and doug) so they are in a separate cage. Everything was fine and dandy until we noticed bo would full speed chase doug around the cage and doug was afraid to leave his hidey because of it. and suddleny out of my pigs (patches, Mako, jamie), mako has started to nip and chase jamie (not as harshly as bo does, so i wasnt too worries about it)
So we tried switching bo to my cage and my quiet pig, patches to the other. and now Mako is bitting the heck out of bo to where he has little scabs all over his butt. I've tried washing the three together, resetting their cage, making it bigger. I really don't know what to do and it's freaking me out because they were perfectly fine before. Maybe I have to make the cages even bigger? I also put two of food/water in the cage with the fighting pigs. Since i have to work I gave up and put Bo in a smaller petstore "playpen" because I don't want him to feel terrorized.
side note: Doug and Mako hate each other and I'm not sure if they'll ever get along. last time we tried to introduce them, it ended in a nasty bite to Mako's foot. Their cages are also in the same room? which might have something to do with it. idk I'm just stressin out.
I'll give you details no problem if you ask, sorry about the lack of