They are both female and have grown up together – I presume the rabbit is now sexually mature and doing as rabbits will – however, the guinea pig is not very keen. I have had to split them up but the whole point of having them both was that they had some company.
How Can I Stop My Children’s Rabbit Humping The Guinea Pig?
Posted February 24th, 2010 by admin
February 24th, 2010 - 10:40 pm
Get them both spayed.
Keeping both the rabbit and guinea pig together is not a very good idea actually. They may seem to be good together now, but when they get older, the rabbit will be very territorial. She may start humping the little guinea pig now, but later she may attack it. Its better to keep them seperate, and get another mate for the guinea pig. The rabbit should be ok to be kept alone, as long as you give her lots of activity to do.
February 25th, 2010 - 5:40 am
Sorry to bring bad news, but you should never keep Guinea Pigs (cavvies) and rabbits together. Rabbits bounce and jump around a lot and can break fragile Guinea Pig bones. I know certain pet shops keep them together but they shouldn’t, the Wife has been part of a scheme to put a stop to this for some time. This is the reason I sometimes feel like I live in a zoo
If you want company then get another one of each. (you could have one of mine if I could smuggle it past the missus)
February 25th, 2010 - 9:50 am
rabbits and guinea pigs should NOT live together. They have totally different feeding needs and rabbits can cause serious damage trying to mate guinea pigs.
February 25th, 2010 - 10:52 am
Having rabbits and guinea pigs are not a good idea. The bun will quite possibly start bullying the guinea pig….maybe that is happening already.
February 25th, 2010 - 4:39 pm
It’s not generally a good idea to keep rabbits and guinea pigs together for this very reason. Obviously your rabbit has reached sexual maturity and needs to let off a bit of steam so to speak, so the best thing for him is for you to get a female rabbit but have her spayed before you put them together unless you want loads of bunnies everywhere! Put your guinea pig in a separate pen with other of his/her kind so he/she won’t be lonely.
February 25th, 2010 - 5:48 pm
It is not a good idea to mix rabbits and guinea pigs really, the rabbits get quite large and boisterous (and amourous as well!) and I know several GPs who have been injured due to an over active GP.
I would split then and provide each with a suitable companion of their own species.
February 25th, 2010 - 10:09 pm
These days, it’s not advised to keep rabbits and guinea pigs together, the main reason being that they need completely different diets (i.e. rabbits need food high in fibre and guineas need lots of vitamin C so the complete foods you buy are different for each). Rabbits can be quite dominant sometimes injur guineas with their powerful hind legs.
The main reason your rabbit is humping is to assert it’s dominance. I have a bonded pair of house rabbits (male and female (neutered and spayed)) and the femal humps the male to show she’s the boss. It’s all part of natural rabbit behaviour.
Spaying your female may calm her down (and I would recommend it as the majority of female rabbits die from uterine cancer if they’re not spayed). If you have now separated them, reintroducing will be difficult as the female rabbit may not tolerate the guinea in her territory again.
If you are able to house them separately, personally I would get to your local rescue centre and get each a friend of their own kind.
February 26th, 2010 - 12:08 am
everybody keeps saying they aren’t a good mix but my friend had a guinypig and a rabbit together(a dwarf rabbit) and they are still together and they never had a problem. the rabbit is a neutured male and the guiny pig is female. and the funny part is that the guniy pig is more territorial then the rabbit. so i can’t see why they can’t be together as long as one or both are spayed. and they should have a fair amount of space so they can get away from each other if needed. with my bucks they will pay together if they have plenty of room to gettogther from each otehr.
February 26th, 2010 - 7:04 am
My friend had a guinea pig who used to try to do the rabbit. it is funny to watch, but yes well…… the only solution is to split them up and find them companions of their own kind.
February 26th, 2010 - 10:02 am
get the rabbit castrated it will soon stop
March 29th, 2010 - 4:07 pm
i have 2 guni pigs ellie and pheobie and the rabbit bubbles bullies ellie but pheboie sticks up 4 her self
May 12th, 2010 - 10:45 am
I have a rabbit and a guinea pig (both female) and they were kept together when I first bought the rabbit. The guinea pig is now 5 years old and the rabbit 2, and when they were kept together, the guinea pig would get stressed as the rabbit would continually lick, push and mount the guinea pig. Now, they live separate and are happy. The guinea pig has recently contracted breast cancer which is very sad, but she is happy enough and we love them both very much! So, in my opinion, I think it is much better to keep them separate.
May 15th, 2010 - 6:43 pm
I have 2 rabbits and 2 guinea pigs, (male) I keep them all together and have had no problems so far!!! I have spoken to many people about this….. get the rabbit done….. and things should be fine! I have a hutch raised off the ground with a big run under it, as you know guinea pigs are very fast and soon learn after 1 tap to move out the way!! Mixed comments on all different pages I have looked at, I think adding more pets to the situation isnt the answer!!
Kim