Should i get another pig?

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Sadly our lovely 4 year old guinea pig called Lottie passed away last night. This leaves her sister by herself. Should we introduce another baby or will they fight?

Your lone pig needs some time to grieve and get used to the fact her cagemate has gone

We've bonded lone pigs after a week or so when they were ready to accept.
We bonded our middle-aged sow (she'll be 5 in May) with our middle aged boar (who died in January) when the sow lost her cagemate.
We kept them side-by-side for a week, even though they'd been beside each other for 18 months since his sows died.

It was a stressful wedding , she is bolshy . They had a couple of nce months as a pair until he died .

We decided not to bond her because I don't think she'd take to a new one (from her reactions to our others and her own cagemate)
She lives indoors now and we'll see how she goes.

4 yo is a tricky age , you can have a couple more years with her , but you get the spiral of pigs .
You could get a couple of young sows , if you have enough space
You could look for a neutered boar about her age (there will be in Rescue) Our GP8 had never lived with males or had piglets but she coped with him (he was too old to do anything more than purr )

Saggy old boars are really lovely BTW .

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We tried when one of our GPS died years ago. they couldn't live in the same cage but could go in the run together each day

When we got our boys, they were from the same litter and a bit grumbly. Pets at Home suggested a pheromone spray which seemed to calm them down (there was no violence, just acting aggressively towards each other). One of those two became ill and had to be PTS, so when we introduced another friend, the original pig moved out of his big cage into the little one, and new pig lived in the big cage for a while. We kept swapping bedding, getting them used to each others smell. They were introduced daily in neutral space (the kitchen, where we never have them out), then in less neutral space (living room) before they were in a cage together.

We also have two of everything positioned so they can't defend both bowls/bottles/hides etc. And we were really lucky with a chilled out new pig!