View Full Version : Guinea pigs, playing or fighting??


kittenta
12-10-2006, 09:14
This is the two lastest ones I got. One of them keeps making like erm purring noises and chasing after the other one, I think it may be nipping it as the other keeps squeaking. They have been fine all this time and they have plenty of food, veg and hay so there is nothing to fight over so are they fighting or just playing???

baileys_mum
12-10-2006, 09:39
Sounds like they are establishing a heirachy, unless they REALLY start going for it ie lunging at each other teeth bared drawing blood I would leave them to it

kittenta
12-10-2006, 13:48
Thx, no proper fighting as of yet, just strange for them! Will keep an eye on them

baileys_mum
12-10-2006, 15:41
Are they female or male? If female one might be in heat, if male they might be approaching puberty

kittenta
12-10-2006, 20:26
No they are both female, they are the ones I got from debby on here and she said they'd always been together and they aren't babies. They have been doing it again but they are both sleeping now, very wierd.

baileys_mum
13-10-2006, 09:21
Sounds like one is in heat then :)

Twiglet
13-10-2006, 17:34
My girls do it ALL the time, yet are inseparable (although I don't think they actually nip each other). I'm pretty certain it's a hierarchy thing, they're just reinforcing their authority over each other.

kittenta
13-10-2006, 23:36
Thankyou at least i can stop sitting over the top of the now!

Moonbird
14-10-2006, 00:19
Baileys mum is right one of them is in heat.

kittenta
14-10-2006, 08:53
thx, so long as the don't hurt each other!!! One doesn't seem to like me, the other is warming to me quite well but the other doesn't want to know and runs away :(

Twiglet
14-10-2006, 10:44
Baileys mum is right one of them is in heat.
And yet mine do it all the time? I don't think that they are constantly in heat!

baileys_mum
14-10-2006, 10:52
They come on heat for 24-26 hours every 18 days (ish)

kittenta
14-10-2006, 11:30
mm they've been doing this for a couple of days now :suspect: I have put their cage next to my other piggies cage (also female) but i did that a couple of weeks ago.