Guinea Pig Bonding Rules! 

The man who needs no introduction, the myth, the legend, Scotty!!🐹

Scotty: generally speaking two girls- BB: EXCUSE ME, PAY ATTENTION TO ME, I AM NEEDY BIRD

I can never get over garis floofy teddy bear face 😍

It’s very cute how adult male piggies love babies. Also BB has opinions as well

Every time a Scotty's Animals video is uploaded I click so fast my finger gets whiplash.

Wow! When we got our 2 boy guinea pigs babies they were from the same litter and they fought at first. Now they’re grown and they are best of friends. I guess they’re in the 20%. It makes it even more cute because they worked out their differences & now love each other.

“We’re in this mess together” You’re the best! Thanks for all you do for the guinea pig community!

Take a bong hit every time Scotty says LA Guinea Pig Rescue. 😁

BB just let's Scotty think hes overseeing the piggie operation. Well played my friend.

I just reconnected my beloved mama piggy with a daughter she hasn’t seen in nearly 4 years. Her cage mate (another daughter) passed away 3 weeks ago, and she desperately needed another companion. Thankfully, they were in that 80%, and got along right away! I even wonder if they somehow remember each other. I made the tough decision to send her home with my friend, because I didn’t want my sweetie to be lonely. Best of luck to anyone trying to find a buddy for their fur baby!

I love the affection you have towards animals, very heart warming. I have an adult male and a 3 month old and the adult male bit a part of the little guys ear off and made him bleed. I was told them being bonded together is over once blood is drawn

Adding my third piggie to my 2 sisters! Hoping it goes well. Researching right now. This channel is so helpful ☺️ thank you!

Thanks Scotty your videos are always so helpful. Loved to see BB enjoy talking and giving us advice too lol ❤️😉

Thank you sooo much for making these videos they help so much! I’ve been wanting to get my little buddy a buddy and so glad I watched this before I made that decision ❤️

Thank you so much for advising against bonding babies with adults. Social media is full of bad advice, “you can only bond brothers” or “get a baby for your lone boar as it always works” (until they become teenagers!) We’ve got 16 rescued boys of various ages (mostly old)& none are related. We have got our 16 boars in a herd- I don’t recommend that to others though as it can be risky. Mine are very chilled boars now (like Saskia’s) and they live in a very large enclosure (or large room in our house in winter). I have spare cages for separating pigs if they were to fall out. I love your channel. It’s great to see someone else with so many boars.

Love it Scotty! Thanks!!! Sharing this with people I know who have had bonding questions.

Thank you for your kindness toward animals.

Scotty you have SAVED me !! Having pigs as an adult is wayyyy different than having them as a kid.... your videos have been so helpful!

SCOTTY!!! PLEASE KEEP MAKING VIDEOS WE ALL LOVE YOU HERE 🙏🏼❤️

Great video Scott! Focused, very informational and showing your style and love for piggies. Loved it!

Hello, Scotty thanks alot for your Guinea pig knowledge! I check your videos before buying them. I followed and learned alot from your videos. Especially the bonding that i needed since I have two males. First interaction of bonding went smooth all the right signs and no bad behaviors. I got lucky! You are awesome!

This is so informative. I had no idea the odds were so low with boys. My boys starting fighting after two months of being together, they’re brothers. I’ve separated them with a grid, but one of them keeps chewing on the grid wanting to get to the other. Im going to try to do a buddy bath. Thanks Scotty! Im learning so much from your channel !!

Hi Scott, all the way from Ontario, Canada! I own 2 special little boys that get along great. I have owned guinea pigs since I was a child yet I still learn things through your channel. I love these special little animals and all animals in fact. Than you for the love and kindness that you show to guinea pigs. You have a sweet soul and it shines through in your videos. Keep on shining!

You are such an incredible blessing to the Piggie community, Scotty!!!! Thank you for all you do 😇

Great video Scotty, going to share in a group I'm in

This is super helpful and your voice is really soothing lol! I have four girls, in two pairs -I’d love to put them together but I get to nervous when I see them chasing.

Thanks Scotty! Great, informative video. Gari is so cute!!!! I look forward to more from your channel :)

You are so helpful! I thank you so much on behalf of my two new piggies.

Just bonded two boys today. Your video was very helpful and they bonded.

Scotty I have learnt so much from watching your videos. It's really been amazing! My 2 females ended up being a male and female and now looking at seperating my male from my girlies the moment babies are born and trying to bond one of the male pups with him for companionship. Praying it will work out

Thank you for your videos!! I have one female pig, Jasmine, who turned out to be pregnant. One Saturday morning she popped out one boy and two girls! 🥰 Juno, Josie, and Jasper. Jasper has his own cage that is connected to the girls’ cage so they can still interact. The girls have stayed bonded, but every once in a while Jasmine shows them who is boss 🤣 I recently got a new piggie, Fudge, who is only 6 months old. After doing some research I was able to work on bonding Fudge and Jasper. It was a success 🥰

Hello Scott, I have 2 adult bears from same family. They are very happy together. Thank you for all the information 🌞

I adore your videos , I love gari ! hes full of personality so funny. I have 3 guinea pigs all girls so addictive . I think your doing a wounderful job :)

I am so glad to find this video. I have worried about bonding our older boy with our new baby. We adopted him and he has been a single guy for over a year. As far as I know his whole life. After I dug into some research I found out they needed a buddy and adopted a baby. They have cuddled and moved around each other but the most aggressive behavior I have seen is our big guy expressing his dominance. It has been pretty smooth otherwise. I have watched your videos all evening. I did get the original guinea pig after my youngest who is 7 but mature for her age has been asking for one. I am taking responsibility for them both and I have seriously fallen in love with these little guys. Thanks for all you do for these fuzzy sweet pets.

I found my piggies on Craigslist. I rescued two bonded males. The are about 3 months old now and I have a them for 2 months. I absolutely LOVE them!!!

This is actually a fantastic video I stumbled upon. I’m getting ready for some piggies in the near future, but I’ve had piggies in the past (which were boys). The boys did actually okay bonding, and I think it was because I had one as a baby, then adopted the second as an adult from a completely different organization. At first they bickered but then the two started getting along really well. I will say i never knew the girls would bond better, I had heard the opposite from one of the adoption centers so thank you for this!

Thanks for this video Scotty. I've had a situation with 2 of my males Rudy & Zachary who got along fine when Rudy was very young. When he became a teen he bit Zachary in the neck, 2 very deep puncture holes required vet visits & antibiotics. So they've been separated since but living side by side, like Pip & Gari. I thought they could never be bonded again, but maybe once Rudy is older I can try to re-bond them. Thanks Scotty soooo much for this GOLDEN info!! I had truly given up hope and felt disgusted at the prospect of ever having male piggies again. Now I feel more hopeful. My girl piggies are divas but my boys really make me laugh. They're all so precious! BTW, I love that wicked tarot t-shirt!!

WOW!!! Got all my answers here. Thank you so much =)

Great tips! We might be trying to bond our lone boy with a new friend soon. He lost his brother last week so we're seeing how he does the next few weeks. I'll have to think about what pig personality would be the best match for him. You explained things so well and I love that you just tell everything like it is!

Hey Scotty luv ur videos!!!!

Great advice 💖

Gari peaking out the curtain is too cute. Why is he so damn cute! Little gentle fluff ball 💕

I love this info.

Scotty you are the best

I love Gari so much!! I wish I could hold him. Same with Billy. I’ve never seen a cuy in person. Too bad they can’t come to the festival. 🥰

I AM NOT TYPING LIKE THIS TO YELL I AM LEGALLY BLIND, JUST SAYING, BUT ANYWAYS, I LOVE YOUR VIDS YOUR BIRDY AND PIGGIES ARE TOO CUTE!! (SO IS EVERY OTHER ANIMAL YOU MAY HAVE, AND YOUR VID WAS TOO FUNNY, I THINK YOUR BIRD WAS JEALOUS AND WANTED ATTENTION BTW "I'M SICK OF ALL THE PIGGIES TAKING THE SPOTLIGHT!" XD JK). I KNOW WHEN/IF YOU FIND NEW HOMES FOR THEM THROUGH IT'S GOTTA BE TOUGH SINCE YOU GET SO ATTACHED TO THEM...AT LEAST THEY'LL BE IN GOOD HANDS WITH YOU. ALSO, I LOVE THAT TAROT SHIRT, IT'S A PERFECT MIXTURE OF SPIRITUALITY AND A CUTE GUINEA PIG! I AM THINKING OF GETTING THAT SHIRT! :D PROPS TO YOU AND THE ARTIST WHO DREW THE AWESOME PICTURE BTW, I LOVE HOW REALISTIC IT LOOKS SO OLD FASHION IT'S PERFECT. :D P.S FORGIVE ANY MIS SPELLINGS AND/OR GRAMMAR MISTAKES IF THERE ARE ANY, THANK YOU. ^_^

Thank you for the information :)

Another great video Scott, piggies are so cute love your accent too! 🇺🇸 Elvis has got to be my favourite obviously 🎵 🎸

Holy moly I had no clue that my two baby boy brothers maybe wouldn’t be a match - luckily they are 😅 Their adolescent phase was a time but they’re through it and super happy 🥰

We recently bonded two new girls with our two existing girls, it was intense due to one of our original girls super dominant, she even got into a stand off with our other original piggie who she was ALREADY bonded with and had never gotten into a fight with before, at one point I thought we were going to have to separate her from the others, she was pulling out hair and chasing ALL the others around relentlessly, it was nuts! I stayed up ALL night watching and had to break up 2 fights (between her and the other girl she was ALREADY bonded to before the introduction of the newbies), BUT, I'm so happy we got good advise from the Facebook piggie group and stuck it out, only took about 48 hours and our girls have been living peacefully ever since, they all seem so happy now! So if you're bonding girls, like Scotty said, even if it LOOKS ugly, as long as no one is bleeding stick it out, the bickering won't last more than a couple days, they just need to figure out their hierarchy, which I'm guessing is more difficult for them to do without a male around.

thanks so much scotty, now i understand why my boys have been fighting lately after 8 months of peace together. i maybe have to separate the aggressor and find him a new friend. i actually have a cage of 4 boys, one is a baby i introduced about 2 weeks ago. i think this may also be the cause of the newfound aggression.

i managed to form a good bond between two boys guinea pigs tied, my first piglet at 8 months was the new 6-7 months. Where we brought the new they said they wouldn’t get along with each other so we could only hope it wouldn’t. They both met for the first time in an unfamiliar area where there was little chasing but no fighting. About an hour later, they lay side by side in the same pose. They’ve been together ever since, there wasn’t a big fight. Sometimes they get together a strand of hay or vegetables. The big one sometimes chases the little one, sometimes they get together and there will be a little force pointing and going to click but that more serious fight is missed by luck. I don’t know if the fact that none of them had a partner in front of each other for a long time contributed to this

I'm working on bonding two boars, they are teenagers. They been together now for about 5 hours they are having little disagreements so far.. keeping a eye on them. Love your videos!

Hi Scott how are you and your animals doing its Thanksgiving here love your videos have a wonderful day or night.

I actually have two boys. And they have been getting along just great.

Informative and I got my Gari fix ❤❤❤

Planning to adopt another. 🙏🏼🥰

We have a 2 year old guinea pig (f). When we first got her we didnt know it would be better in pairs so we just bought one. So we decided to find a buddy for her just now. Got a 2 month old female guinea pig!

BB likes girl guineas ;D Great Guinea Pig, that video was hard to watch, glad it settled somewhat. That's a cool drawing :D good idea turning it into a t-shirt! Still wish I lived in your country, would get ALL the piggies!

Wee Companions bonded our 9 month old boar with a baby - and wow did the baby grow up fast and all of the brotherly love! They live in the same room, a couple feet apart because the "baby" would try to bite the older one through the bars. Baby is now over 1 year old - Wondering if we should try re-bonding them?

BB just wants to be in th he video. He's been watching, he knows how to guineapig. There's always something to learn, especially that Pipsqueak likes to run away with carrots 😂😂 ♥️🐹🐹♥️

This helps ALOT

Thanks I just got two Girls and the older one was chasing the younger one and doing the teeth thing

Just love you!

We love guinea pigs and we love you- The Forry Twins Jackson and Natalie

Great video scotty. I have an example of what can go wrong will go wrong sometimes. I teemed up father and son and after several months fighting started instigated by the son. They lived side by side with occasional interactions but fights would start. After the father died i decided to nueter the son and try a femail becouse he had always been the one not getting along. So i took in a rescue female that wouldnt live with other females. Even after weeks of being side by side there was a sudden explosive fight and before i could grab either of then she had her eye bitten through literally punctured. She had her eye removed and subsequent treatment for infection in the eye socket. She pulled through and coped fine with one eye but my boy developed a lump and this time couldnt take the aneasthetic and died the next morning. My one eyed girl then lives happily with a herd of three girls i got to put next to her so she wouldnt be lonely!! She got on fine and they all lived together hapily but what trauma getting there. I would endorse what you say dont give up but sometimes its good to be content with males living side by side. Well done scotty and lagprescue on recent evacuations. I live in england but have been following it. You all did an awesome job

Gary reminds me of a baby bison.

How are u and the piggies the videos are amazing

Hey Scotty! Thanks for these awesome videos! A few days ago, I got a teenage Guinea pig for my loaner 5 year old pig. There is no biting or fighting, and they even lay down together at times, but the older one is annoyed by the younger one when the younger one sniffs his behind or try’s to get him to play, especially when eating. Is this normal, and will they be okay getting along?

Hi! This video was so helpful! I had two boys and one recently passed away, I was wondering how long you should wait till finding them another friend?

the bird in the back always makes me nervous next to the piggies 😂

Thank you ❤️ I just lost one of my male guinea pigs. I’m so sad but I know his “brother” that he left behind is gonna need a friend at some point. How long do pigs grieve for? When we are ready and the virus has calmed down I really want to visit the sanctuary in Hampton NH to see if we can find a potential friend.

I got two boys last year and im not sure of their age but they seemed to be a few months old when I got them. recently they got in a fight and drew blood. there is one that is clearly the bully as he is bigger and eats more, and it made the smaller one bleed. it wasn't too bad but his ear was bleeding. I put a divider in the cage for a few weeks. today I did a buddy bath and then put them in a neutral zone with food and hay, and they seemed fine for a bit, but its been a few hours and im seeing teeth chattering again. I have a bigger cage for them now with two of everything. do I put them in the cage with the divider or just see how it goes? help please

I don’t like playing favorites but that Gari is awfully cute 🥰

I can't get another geinea pig so what I did to make my geinea pig happy is I just turned on other geinea pig sound and he started talking as well and that was the best day ever

Im in the situation where i have two boys, they were so loving and stayed together for the first two weeks and now they are fighting, i dont know what happened they were doing good. Now i have them side by side

You are so cool!

Wish me luck, in 9 days the new piggy quarantine is up & I have to bond my boy with a pair I just adopted. The cage is 4 by 6 c&c grids, plenty of hides, most with more than one exit.

I began the bonding process today with my new piggy and my other sweet piggy who lost her cage mate a few weeks ago. I thought it would go very well as the new piggy is extremely easy going, and so is my older piggy. Almost right away they were agressive with eachother, and started getting into. I am unsure how concerned I should be, as There was no blood but my older piggy did pull out clumps if fur from my newer piggy. It's been very stressful. I separated them each time, unsure how serious it was but I'm scared my older piggy is going to hurt the newer one.

Hi scotty I have an awkward boar to bond with other boys he lives a few feet from the others and sees them through bars outside in their run I was considering neutering but the risk worries me we dont have decent rescues by me

Your Gari is gorgeous! 🥰

Hi Scott! What does it mean if while bonding the piggi is trying to be dominent but at same time is popcorning as well

I got a boy, he's a few months old and we're considering getting another male piggie that would be only a little younger than him. I hope it works because the piggie I have now seems super bored (chewing on cnc bars and hide houses etc)

I have an aggressive adult male who is a rescue and probably around five years old and I have a baby who is a little over a month almost two months and the baby is really mellow because he was the runt and I thought they would get along but when I tried to bond them, I was a bit worried because it wasn’t really any aggression but my adult wouldn’t stop chasing the baby and there was some mounting but I couldn’t really figure out if it was good or not so I separated them. I do think they would get along but I was worried to leave them overnight. Any tips?

Hi Scotty👋....I just saw your video and realized it wasn't the best choice to bring a second boy from the petshop (not a baby but a younger one) and man....it's been the longest three days if our lives (theirs and ours) the 1st day was rough, lots of shattering, nose punching and chasing. 2nd day looked a bit better, yet lots of purring and threats and chasing from the older piggie went on but I don't know exactly how long I should wait until deciding wether to separate them or leave them together until nature does its thing. Day 3 sometimes they can take naps and share hay but the older piggie is always trying to limit the other one, for example watching him trying to get a sip of water or a piece of veggie would be enough to trigger him and chase him back to his hiding place, making him stay there 80% of the day(the older to the newcomer) We're really concerned we don't know if the little one is being stressed out uselessly or if things will get any better. TOTALLY LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, THE LOVE YOU EXPRESS TO THEM AND THE CONTENT IS JUST SO USEFUL....YOU'RE THE BEST!! ♡

I have 2 baby females from different places and am having to keep them separated as one of them always bullies the other one, will I be able to bond them successfully?

Hi Scotty - I am trying to bond two adult boys - they can lie peacefully side by side (like Ying/Yang) and nuzzle each other, but when they separate, they teeth chatter and one of them starts shivering (NOT rumblestrutting, but really shivering like when you are cold). What's your take on that? Thanks from Pernille from Copenhagen

So true about related pigs. Even girls. Even moms and baby girls will fight a lot. Maybe not to a destructive degree but they are certainly not harmonious to say the least. + love the tarot design.

hi so I got a a older guneia pi (I think 4-5 month year old) and a baby and they were in a small cage and were fine at first I didn't hear any teeth chattering but my younger baby got a bite wound I just upgraded to a huge c and c cage but when ever I split they the older one keep biting the bars and trying to get back to the baby I never seen them fight att all what do I do (sorry this is long but I really need your advice)

I watched this video too late and put together two baby boys from the same litter. They teeth chatter and nip at each other but the fighting never got bad enough to where there is blood or missing hair

Hey! loved the video, i was just wondering your thoughts on one adlut male and one young male being bonded? i currentally have two boys seperated cause of fighting and wanted to get a new home mate for both of them but they are both 2 years old. what do you think is best for my boys?

I wish i saw this video before. my guinea pig cookie may she rest in peace with along 3 of her babies, was a mother to one girl and two boys. Cookie and alexa the daughter bonded very well they never got in a fight. The boys Chocolate and Caramelo had a bond when they were just a month old after that I noticed the teeth chattering or territorial. I witnessed their first fight my mistake was to stop the fight and got bit real bad.

I have a 3 month old boy that I just adopted and a 1 year old boy that I already had at home. I let the 3 month old have time to relax to the new home and then I introduced them. Everything was great, lots of "talking" and purring but no teeth chattering. About 15 minutes in the 3 month old peed on the 1 year old, it made him mad. He started chattering his teeth and then the 3 month old started and they did face each other. No biting or lunging, but I got worried so I separated them and put them into their own cages to cool down. Should I keep trying? They were so happy until the little one peed on him. I am going to build a C&C cage, I can always have a divider. Just wanted some input! Thanks!

Our girls lived side by side most of the time because we didn't know their fights weren't serious. I wish we had this info back then! But they were always able to see each other and keep each other company at least. (Also omg I'm flattered lol 😶 I hope it helps you raise good funds 😊)

I have 2 boys (Quasi & Poncho) who been together since birth. I separated them from their mom and sister. They fight around sometimes but at night they sleep next to each other in YingYang form.

Hey Scott I watch a lot of your videos and I was hoping you could give me some advise, I have 3 girl pigs and none of them will live together because they fight. They each have a 4x2 C&C cages they are not willing to share nore play together

My two adult males that are brothers seem unhappy since the dominant one likes to chase the other male and he also chatters his teeth as well..... any advice?

Thank you sm for this video, i just rescued 12 guinea pigs (4 babys, 6 adult girls one is pregnat, and 2 grown males) i am keeping an aldult boy and a baby boy also i wanted to onow if you could bound baby girls with aldult girls, i rly dont know alot about guinea pigs bc i havent had them since i was nine

BB chirps:“Scotty, you know what Kaye’s going to say about girl bonding .” Hazel bit a hole in Lena’s neck and I was at the emergency vet at 11pm! I would love to believe 80% but I can’t. My boys, I have been blessed. They cry if their cage mate is not there! I do have three that live separated by a grid for safety. So I agree with a lot of what you say but it seems I’ve had tough cases.

Glad I watched this . I have a 2year old male piggy who has always been on his own..... Was the last of his litter! I'm starting too think of getting him a friend....I keep being told too have him neutered and get a female ! So it's interesting that you say it would work better with a baby boy ☺️ need too really think about if this will just upset my boy as he has always been spoilt 🤷