ALWAYS wheeking, am I starving them or are they just greedy/normal!?

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I think I feed my pigs loads, maybe too much! They live in my bedroom, which is just off my living room/kitchen and have their floor time in the living - so they can hear and see everything that's going on. Every single time they hear a bag crackle, someone chop on the chopping board or hear the fridge open their off WHEEK WHEEK WHEEK! And if their out they'll run over to the noise lol.

I think its cute, and I like that they've learned the sounds but I am worried that they are hungry!

For example, today they have had:

1 inch cucumber, a whole baby corn, a quarter of a pepper, 1 chicory leaf, 2 leaves of baby gem lettuce, some chopped up celery, a sprig or dill and a sprig of basil.

Bowl full of guinea pig nuggets and their hay rack refilled and their hay tray cleaned out and refilled.

Thats a lot of food, they got it at 9.30am and have ate all the veggies. But now I'm chopping for dinner they're both wheeking like mad!
 
Lacey does it all the time, she will wheek at the slightest noise, she even stops eating what Ive just given her to wheek if she hears me, it is funny, think they think they are missing out on something
 
My Henry pig shouts when he hears my bedroom floorboards creak because he knows its me walking about...he's downstairs in the living room.

Last night I could hear him shouting from me standing up off my bed, walking to the landing and down the stairs, he only stopped when I was at the door!

It sounds like they're getting more than enough and are trying to trick you :))
 
Cookie can wheek at the same time as eating! Piggies are masters of emotional black mail. That sounds like plenty of food and that they are just typical piggies.

If ours wheek when its not breakfast or tea time i usually just top the hay up and that seems to keep them happy.
 
Piggies wheek constantly for more no matter how much you feed, and no you are not overfeeding them grossly, either! It starts about 10 minutes after the last meal because (to cite my hub) "what's gone is gone" and doesn't count...
 
Bertie doesnt wheak! But this afternoon I gave his indoor cage a good clean out so I popped him in his normal long cage which is in the conservatory. Just paper in there no food no water nothing. After about 5 minutes he started wheaking, not loud you know, but just sort of "Mum I am starving, I feel faint, quick, help me!"
I rushed over to him and gave him his water bottle, he had a few glugs, and then I put a handful of hay in and he scoffed that. Greedy piggies, got us wrapped round their little paws...x)
 
I get a piggy chorus of wheeks! at everything that might sound anything like a bag rustling or a food bowl. Mine are all rescues and a few had no idea what hay or vegetables were when I had them, but it didn't take them long to start being bossy! I dont think they would ever get bored of having veggies placed in front of them and they never last very long, I think you just have happy and excited pigs!
 
Hehehe just as I started reading this thread my lot started wheeking :))
They always wheek when they hear a bag rustle, or if they hear the fridge door being opened or hear chopping. They are wheeking now because they know its the time when they get their veggies :))
 
Hahaha reading all of these made me laugh very much. I agree, they do have us wrapped around their little paws! When I added up all the extra food they got through the emotional blackmail (lol!) they were more or less getting their dinner all over again throughout the day.

Cheeky little piggers! Thank you for reassuring me I'm not a bad owner starving her pets :) These little guys are way smarter than they get credit for, got us chopping and running after them when they shout lol.
 
Of a morning, my lot have only got to hear the back door open and the key go in the padlock on their shed and they're all wheeking in unison! :))
 
Pumpkin (RIP) was always emotionally blackmailing me for food, how ever much I gave her. Funniest was when my dad did weeding in the garden he'd throw my girls some dandilions with the roots still attached. Pumpkin would eat these and get mud from the roots smeared all over her pretty white face. She'd then start squeeking like she'd been starved for days and look up at me begging for food with mud smeared all over her face. She looked like a child that had just got hold of a jar of chocolate spread. :))
 
scpiggy said:
Pumpkin (RIP) was always emotionally blackmailing me for food, how ever much I gave her. Funniest was when my dad did weeding in the garden he'd throw my girls some dandilions with the roots still attached. Pumpkin would eat these and get mud from the roots smeared all over her pretty white face. She'd then start squeeking like she'd been starved for days and look up at me begging for food with mud smeared all over her face. She looked like a child that had just got hold of a jar of chocolate spread. :))
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aaww I got a mental image there, super cute x
 
Its completly normal, welcome to having piggies. My house is tiny and its deafening at dinner time. But if they hear me come in, go in the kitchen, the fridge etc etc, it starts all over again. Theyre just being greedy, like all piggies. :)

x.
 
Every morning when I open the curtains in the dining room (this is where the girls are kept) they wheek so loudly for their morning snack!
Then everytime I open the door-they are glass double doors off the lounge-they wheek, especially Lottie, she has a 'whistle' that is so loud and I love it! x>>
 
Can you imagine what my nine sound like all together when they hear a rustle or even just my voice? Lol! They are all in my husbands office and when he is on the phone to a customer sometimes they all start and he has had to explain to the person on the phone why he cant hear what they are saying! :))
 
Claire1973 said:
Can you imagine what my nine sound like all together when they hear a rustle or even just my voice? Lol! They are all in my husbands office and when he is on the phone to a customer sometimes they all start and he has had to explain to the person on the phone why he cant hear what they are saying! :))
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hhahaaa! how funny! x
 
One of mine wheeks at me constantly, particularly when it's a time of day where she expects me to get her food or let her out. It's funny how aware she is of what time it is... she mainly wheeks at me in the mornings (when I top up the hay and pellets) and in the evenings (when I let them out for piggie free time and snacks.) She certainly doesn't let me forget what time of day it is! And she will also wheek at me at any time of day if I come downstairs after being in the fridge upstairs. She apparently knows the sound of the fridge and that this is where the veggies come from!
 
Ours wheek at the fridge door going, or when the kitchen tap is running (usually a sign their veggies are being washed!)

My husband works lates, and arrives home around 11pm. One of our piggies has taken this as his cue to "demand floor time" at 10:30pm, waits by the front door (just off our living room where their cage is) and wheeks so loudly when he hears the key turn in the lock and when my husband comes in (as it's evening cucumber time!)

Other than that, some days they wheek a lot, others not a peep (I think it depends on their mood!)
 
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