Anyone else got climbers?

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All my boys climb...

The baby has been here since Saturday and is already making himself at home on top of Suilven's house in preference to anywhere else...

Angus and Suilven regularly jump over the 10" grids I use for play pens/to keep them out from behing the sofa, TV etc

We cannot leave them anywhere without them climbing out of their cages (lids on tight..) or out of play pens. Even Hamish who can't see half the time will attempt it.

Is this normal or have I just got the wierdest batch of vertically mobile pigs ever?
 
Lacey was a climber and a jumper, I couldnt keep her in anything....now they have a C&C built off the floor and she hasnt attempted it since!
 
I love it! Your newbie is a climber also! :)) :))

All ours are firmly feet on the ground, apart from Cookie and Treacle at food times, who will climb the bars but otherwise it's too much effort.... Little Megan definately isn't a climber - bless her.

I wonder if boys climb more than girls? Do younger pigs climb more than oldies? Would be interesting to know..

Thanks for your pm will pm you back tonight! x
 
I've got a few that will climb on top of their fiddlestix bridges or who will hop (literally hop - the first time I saw it I was amazed they could jump that high!) on to one of the foot stools I've got in their pen...

The 'larger' (being polite, here) ladies won't bother, but the lean mean guinea pig machine youngsters will give climbing a good go. Boxes, bridges, tubes, whatever they can get on, they'll try!
 
My two youngsters are climbers, too.

But the most memorable of them all was my first piggy Minx - climbing stairs (try to explain piggy proofing the stairs to your gasman with a straight face!), vegetable racks, into the fridge, flower pots - anything she could put her front paws on... mallethead
 
Yeah I tried to teach Suilven to do the stairs when he was little and he nearly got the hang of it, he'd probably manage now he's bigger.

Baby has been rampaging around the sofa too, he's a bit frustrated I think as he's not big enough to go on the floor with the other boys yet for floortime.

Keeping Angus out of anywhere is a trial as he seems to know if you fence something off there has to be something interesting there. if the grids are next to the wall he can't be bothered. The christmas tree was a big attraction, he couldn't understand why he wasn't allowed in the big space around the bottom of it that was filled with things wrapped in lovely paper to munch....
 
Yup youre certainly not the only one. My George and Bungle first jumped hen they were quite small, then they moved onto climbing as they got older. Fortunately their play pen has high sides. This could have been a problem if the sides of the play pen were lower, because I got in from work one day to find that theyd climbed onto the roof of their wooden house and was trying to stretch to the top of the play pen to maybe climb over.

This is one of the issues I'm finding with whether to get a C&C cage or not because the sides would then be a lot lower than what Ive currently got.

But one thing I have noticed about GPs climbing and jumping is that in all of my professional guinea pig books / guides they all state "Guinea pigs do not jump". "Guinea pigs do not like toys"......basically everything that these books have said, mine have done the complete opposite! Think I should write a new and up to date GP book :)
 
A couple of serious climbers here too - Autumn and Alvin! They are still babies, but love scrambling up the side of their cages and C&C grids! Autumn clears the side of the pen I set up to keep her on one side of the playroomrolleyes

The majority of my foster boys love sitting on top of their wooden house/fiddlestix but don't scale walls in quite the same way as the youngsters!
 
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