Guinea pig problems. Help please !!?

No you did not make a mistake by getting another guinea pig. He will love his companion eventually. But the mistake you did make was by putting them together right away. you have to do a split cage method. either by placing the new guinea pig in a separte cage next to your old guinea pigs cage, or you need to literally split one cage in half. that way, your old guinea pig can get the scent of your new one. once you do this, the old one should get used to the new one. Also, when you introduce them, make sure you take them to a neurtal location that neither has been to. when i introduced my new guinea to my two old guineas, I put them in the bath tube. that way they could smell each other and get used to each other and if the new one got scared or needed to run away, she could. Also, teeth chattering is very common when introducing guinea pigs. Even some pulling out each others hair is common. Its a sign of dominance. EVENTUALLY your guinea pigs will get along. Altho i have heard it takes a bit longer to introduce males than females. Everytime I introduced a guiena pig, I have used this method and its worked everytime. After a week I was able to unsplit my cage and all my guinea pigs were happy and have got along great ever since. like I said tho, males, i have heard, take a bit longer to introduce. i have only introduced girls. I hope this helps.

PS here is a website that i used when introducing my guineas. what to look for when things are getting to rough.

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

the info that you are really looking for is a little farther than half way down the page. Good Luck! and don't worry, they should get along eventually, you just have to be patient.

The mounting is showing he is the boss of he cage, the teeth chatting on the other hand is not as good a sign and may turn into a problem, he is saying stay away form me.

Try the introductions in the bathroom for a small amount of time for the first day then increase it each day increasing it to several hours with shared food and water bowels. on the day you try to put them together in the cage again wash the cage out will with vinegar in water so it has a new smell and doesn't smell like any ones territory to protect.

Best Thing to do is to keep Them Seperated.Keep One in their Cage and put the other in another cage,Next to each other So They Can See eachother.It Is Best To Introduce 1-2 weeks.Males Can Be Aggressive,So This Process Would Talk a bit more time

Don't worry unless you see blood.

Your first male is not sexually confused..that's what they do to another guinea pig to show dominance (dogs do the same).

Teeth chattering is a not-so-good sign, but do not separate them unless you see blood! If you keep separating and reintroducing they will just have to go over everything all over again to re-establish dominance.

From what I have known to happen and in my experience as an owner...male guinea pigs do NOT get along with eachother. They try to dominate one another and this can result in one heck of a fighting match. Injuries could result.

My advice, if you are able to, is to seperate them. It sounds like you introduced them too soon. When you get another guinea pig for one you alredy have, you should quarantine them for at least a week.

Try 2 seperate cages side by side so they sniff and look at eachother.

Than try to introduce them again.

If it does not work, they will have to live side by side.

Hope that helps :)

Alright. The sources you read probably said that guinea pigs are extremely social herd animals, etc. While this is true, intact males can be EXTREMELY territorial and aggressive. I'm sorry this happened to you.

Your current guinea pig will never accept the new guinea pig. Oh, by the way, your guinea pig is not mating with the other one. It is extremely common for guinea pigs to "mount" each other during the introduction process. This behavior is used to establish dominance.

The only thing you can do is neuter your current guinea pig and find a nice spayed female to be friends with him.

I had the same problem when I got two males realy the only two ways you can stop it is if you get another cage or if you get two female guinea pigs but make sure you don't put both of the females and males in the same cage because the males will try to kill each other just to get both of the females so buy another cage and put one male and one female in both cages I hope I helped

woahhhh you have to slowly introduce them right now they are being territorial you need to keep them separate and then take some of the poop (i suggest gloves lol) and pee wood chips or newspaper what ever you use and put it into each others cage and do it progressively and then to introduce them you need to do it during run time (when they run on the floor outside their cage probably in the kitchen and slowly make the area they are in smaller and smaller do this for a while..... make sure when they eventually get housed together make sure there is lots of room and enough huts or hiding places for both of them

Naturally males are very territorial. If they are in a cage with another male yes, they will get aggressive. Also rodents get sexually frustrated rather fast.. that would explaining the attempt to mate. I would have suggested to get your male a female companion but if you don't want to have baby Guinea pigs then your best off leaving your guniea-pig alone with that being said you'll need to spend alot of time with him and play with him often, as he will become lonely and depressed.

About the mounting thing if both males mount each other it means they're establishing dominance.. It looks like they've shown aggression. Separate them immediately because they're fighting because of aggression..

Hope I helped:)