Please help me quick!!! Guinea pigs

Question

I just now realized both of my young male guinea pigs are teeth chattering and their fur is standing straight up and they are walking in circles. They haven't done this before. I know people say you need two cages I was going to get one later when i have enough $. Will they fight? What do I do since i only have one cage? please hurry i need to go to sleep soon. Help!!???

No rude comments please. Help me please I don't want them to get hurt.

Answer 1

You actually don't have to separate them. I had 2 males (brothers I believe) that would do this all the time, and they lived together in one cage. They would grind their teeth at one another and rumble (the quick, low whowhowhowho sound), but they never earnestly fought. They have to establish dominance, and the non dominant male will always want to be dominant, so they'll do that quite frequently, but you only need to separate them if they actually fight (on top of each other, biting hard). Mine nipped each other occasionally, but never really fought.  

Answer 2

"A guinea pig that starts teeth chattering is an upset/angry guinea pig. If a piggy is heard doing this to another piggy, it means they are agitated and are warning the other guinea pig to keep away. Often guinea pigs that are first introduced to each other will start teeth chattering. When two boars meet for the first time, they may chatter at each other, trying to sort out their position in the hierarchy. It can also happen with sows when they first meet. If teeth chattering increases, the fur around their necks may become raised to make them seem larger. They may also stamp their feet from side to side making themselves rock, looking very stiff with their movements. This isn't the same as a guinea pig rumble strutting, this type of behaviour is aggressive behaviour. If you see your guinea pigs doing this to each other, its best to separate them before they fly at each other, just remember to watch your hands. Place a towel over them to confuse them, then you can separate them."

Answer 3

Okay, the only reason you need to seperate guinea pigs is if there is blood drawn. Raised hackles and teeth chattering are pretty normal, however if they are both doing this excessively, with very loud teeth chatters, and are rumblestrutting (a little dance by moving their rears back and fourth) they could be lining up ready to luanch & attack. Have your pigs ever actually been in a fur ball fighting with eachother? Have they stricked at eachother with obvious intentional harm?

You know your pigs may do this if they are lined up, snorting at eachother, mouth wide open, and excessive teeth chattering. These are no reasons to seperate pigs, but it may escalade and get more intense, where they fight with intent to harm.

If it's just normal raised hackles and teeth chattering that is normal dominance behavior. Perhaps they just had a normal squabble, most pigs go through this every once and a while. Pigs that intend to hurt eachother feel that way right off the bat. They usualy don't randomly start to not get along and fight, unless it's because they are in their adolesence or pregnant. You said your cavies are young, so they are probably just going through adolesence. Nothing to worry about, just keep a very carefull eyeout, and pay attention and as soon as you notice bite marks with blood seperate them. Wait untill they are at least a year old to put them back together again.

Though like I said before the only reason to seperate them is if there is blood drawn.

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EDIT: Okay, please do not put one in a carrier, it is not necessary. A carrier also does not have an adequate amount of space for housing. Guinea pig dominance just looks more vicious than it truly is. You said there is no blood drawn, so there is no need for serperation. Do not worry. Keep them together, you are not doing any good seperating them. When you put them back together, they will just have to re-go through the dominence and work it all back out again.

Answer 4

it does seem that they want to fight...it could be because they are ready to mate so i would separate them as soon as possible

Answer 5

well guinea pigs don't get along that well with others so you should put one in the cage and put the other one on your hand and close to the cage to see what they do to each other they cant get hurt because one is inside the cage and it should have bars so they cant touch each other keep them their and always keep an eye on them and just hold the other one and if they do fight get a box that is high and big of space because they need a lot of space

Answer 6

They are likely going through adolescence. You do not need to separate them. Just make sure your cage is big enough http://www.guineapigcages.com/

And read http://www.cavyspirit.com/sociallife.htm...