What does it mean when a guinea pig raises and shakes her butt and chatters at another female guinea pig?

Question

one was in the other's house and the guinea pig whose house was invaded raised her butt shook it and started chattering and squeaking and now they are seperated but the one who was in the house keeps biting the bars trying to get at the other

Answer 1

They're just sorting out dominance. What are you doing, just sticking one in the cage with the other and expecting them to get along? It doesn't work that way. What you saw was 'rumblestrutting', a very common signal that one guinea pig wans to make sure they are dominant over the other. This happens just as much as females as it does with males. You need to clean out the one cage with bleach and clean all of the items in it. Introduce the two in an enclosed area neither of them have ever been in before with a large pile or two of hay and one or two of vegetables, which will distract from any potential fighting. They may quarrel, rumblestrut, circle each other, and even mount each other. This is all VERY NORMAL. Do not separate them! Only separate them if there is bloodshed! They must stay out together for at least 30 minutes, and once it's all calm they can go into their cleaned cage!

Answer 2

Just to be safe, make sure they're both females. This can be a mating dance type thing, but I've seen 100% females do it to each other. When they're in heat, they don't care if it is females or males. They'll try to...do it...anyways. =/

Answer 3

umm.. wht do u tihnk??? lol.

Answer 4

Maybe the one or the other is a male or a female. Just make sure. I might be a mating way for the guinea pigs.

Answer 5

Democrats and republicans they always go at each other, and with the same body motions