Guinea Pigs

[noxlumos]

Hi We have two lovely boar guinea pigs that live blissfully happily together, no fighting or nastiness.Our problem is that one is a Peruvian with very long hair until recently, when we noticed him getting shorter and shorter. We watched carefully and his chum is chewing his hair off and now he looks a right mess bless him. Don't really want to seperate them as they really get on well but poor old Barry's looking a bit the worse for wear since Colin ate his coat. Anyone any ideas as to how I can persuade Colin to keep his teeth to himself?Any advice much appreciated. Thanks in advance:)

[gessoo]

Found this on the net noxlumos. It has a paragraph on 'Barbering'. Not very helpful to you as it says there is nothing you can do except separate them, and obviously you wouldn't want to do that. Obviously Colin is the 'dominant boar'! I suppose you could have Colin castrated to stop this dominance? Other than that I can't think of anything else.

[gessoo]

Forgot to post the link!

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/critters/guin_pig/GuineaPig.php

[noxlumos]

Thank you gessoo, looks like we'll have to split the cage so they can still seee each other and chat but little Colin can't mince him. Amazing that he's the dominant one though as he's miles smaller and more timid than Barry. Thanks for your help:)