Guinea pigs are amusing rodents who will please the little and adult owners day by day. They do not bite as hamsters and rats, and are able to make the mass of interesting sounds, expressing discontent or demanding some delicacy. If you decided to get more than one guinea pig, it is important to make friends correctly animals.
Instruction
1. The correct acquaintance of guinea pigs – guarantee of friendship and absence of injuries. Fans of these rodents should remember that it is impossible to lodge in one cage of two males. They will be constantly at war for the territory, to create a lot of noise, to throw out sawdust through a lattice. Injuries will become result of the constant conflicts and, it is not excluded, death of weaker individual. The only males of guinea pigs who can get on together, - brothers from one dung who were never separated. Besides, nearby when any pig female should not appear.
2. Two females can quite get on in one cage if they have enough place. The age of pigs, as a rule, does not play a role.
3. The male with a female is not recommended to be lodged in one cage. Pigs enter childbearing age in one or one and a half months after the birth and are capable to bring posterity with enviable regularity. Even if you not against little shaggy pigs, it is necessary to support a female separately from a male, putting them together only for mating dance. First, the male at emergence of posterity will protect the territory that can is deplorable to end for newborn pigs. Secondly, at once after the delivery the female emits special secretion which can provoke a male to new sexual intercourse. Without having managed to bring up just been born posterity, the guinea pig becomes pregnant again. Frequent childbirth will exhaust a female ahead of time and will reduce the term of her life significantly.
4. It is correct to acquaint two guinea pigs simply. The first days them should be held in different cages which need to be put at some distance from each other. Every day of a cage it is possible to move on several centimeters, gradually bringing together them. But all the same closely, a lattice to a lattice, you should not put lodges of pigs.
5. Joint walk in the neutral territory will become ideal acquaintance for guinea pigs. Let out at first one rodent, and in a few minutes the second. Surely sharp-sightedly you watch pets. If there are conflicts, it is worth interfering and seating pigs on different cages.
6. For guinea pigs the behavior when they approach is considered normal, sniff at each other, make characteristic nonaggressive sounds, fight for a toy, run one after another about the room.