Hello
My wife and I bought our first chinchilla, Teemo (right around a year old male), last April. He seemed like he really wanted a friend (making the call sound a lot) so we recently decided to get a second chinchilla, Moss (just under a year old male), about 2 weeks ago.
We had them in separate cages next to each other for the first week letting them out to play separately. During the second week we started letting them run around together. The seemed to be getting along and would sit next to each other and groom each other running around chirping and pop corning. Teemo would mount him occasionally(I read this is a sign of dominance), the first time he was very aggressive (not attacking but just constantly trying to) about it so we separated them. The next day Teemo backed off a bit and they got along fine.
Today, I put them into the same cage since they seemed to be getting along well. They were fine for a couple hours then Teemo started swishing his tail and constantly mounting Moss again. Moss got aggravated and barked and nipped at Teemo but Teemo wouldn't back off. I let them out of the cage and they calmed down for 30 min or so but then Teemo wouldn't leave Moss alone and they got in a bit of a tussle (some fur lost but no blood). I put them back into separate cages.
Is it just too soon for them to be in the same cage? is there anything we can do to get Teemo to stop constantly mounting Moss? They both seem to like each other most of the time and haven't really fought but Teemo just seems to bug Moss until he tells Teemo to back off.
My wife and I bought our first chinchilla, Teemo (right around a year old male), last April. He seemed like he really wanted a friend (making the call sound a lot) so we recently decided to get a second chinchilla, Moss (just under a year old male), about 2 weeks ago.
We had them in separate cages next to each other for the first week letting them out to play separately. During the second week we started letting them run around together. The seemed to be getting along and would sit next to each other and groom each other running around chirping and pop corning. Teemo would mount him occasionally(I read this is a sign of dominance), the first time he was very aggressive (not attacking but just constantly trying to) about it so we separated them. The next day Teemo backed off a bit and they got along fine.
Today, I put them into the same cage since they seemed to be getting along well. They were fine for a couple hours then Teemo started swishing his tail and constantly mounting Moss again. Moss got aggravated and barked and nipped at Teemo but Teemo wouldn't back off. I let them out of the cage and they calmed down for 30 min or so but then Teemo wouldn't leave Moss alone and they got in a bit of a tussle (some fur lost but no blood). I put them back into separate cages.
Is it just too soon for them to be in the same cage? is there anything we can do to get Teemo to stop constantly mounting Moss? They both seem to like each other most of the time and haven't really fought but Teemo just seems to bug Moss until he tells Teemo to back off.
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