My male guiena pig, Almond, has had some general issues lately. He totally freaks out whenever I try to handle him (touch, pick up, ect). He literally runs up the sides of his cage to try to get away form me. He was abused by his previous owners, but it never showed much. Now he's very hand shy, and just scared in general. Earlier today, I was trying to handle him and it took almost an hour just to get him used to me holding him. I've been trying to be more patient while taking him out of his cage and all, and moving veeery slowly, but it just doesn't seem to work. Even the slightest movement scares him out of his pants and makes him run to the other side of his cage. It makes me sad that he doesn't enjoy being handled, because it's spossesd to be a fun thing for him to do. I know it is important for him to get daily excersize and get out of his cage, but he just doesn't enjoy it. He flips out, and if I put him on the floor, he won't do anything, he just sits there scared. I must be doing some thing terribly wrong if he's acting this way, but I really don't think I am. I think what the problem is, is when he had to be seperated from his guiena pig friend Joy, when we figured out he was actually a boy, and Joy's a girl. He's been shy and sad ever sicne then, I believe. I think the best thing would to be to get him neutered and put him back with Joy. I'm slightly worried that when and if I do take him in to get neutered, he'd be so scared that he'd fly across the room or something insane like that. Onto the next thing. I also think Almond has some type of parasite problem, or prehaps he's jsut ichy. Because, he's scratched his back so hard that it bled. I really hope it doesn't get infected. He keeps itching at it over and over and keeps openig the wound. Which is a problem. It sounds like my pig just needs some love, a friend, and a trip to the vet. Do you know of anything that might calm him down so I could, prehaps hold him?
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