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Bad Personal Piggie Hygiene!

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Wasn't sure whether to put this in health or in behaviour, I figured it was probably slightly more health related though.

My boar Nemo is almost 5 years old and I guess as he has got older his personal cleanliness has declined. He was never the most tidy boar but he's not as good now. He's longhaired which doesn't help, although I do cut his hair so it doesn't drag on the floor. He also suffers from impaction, which I check every day and remove any build up as necessary. However I feel like I'm constantly bathing him because he's just always mucky. I did him again today and he looks lovely now but give it a couple of weeks and it'll be a whole other story.

I clean his hutch regularly, he has a little friend who he really likes, he's a good eater but obviously he doesn't feel the need to groom himself at all. He's quite sedate, but he seems happy in himself overall. Anyone else have a problem boar like this? Do you have any tips or should I just carry with my current routine for him?
 
Heya I don't have a problem boar but do have a dirty little sow, she's only about 12 weeks old and doesn't seem to groom herself either and is constantly messy, I'm worried that if she was taken away from her mother too young she might just not have learnt this skill.
I'd carry on cleaning him so he's not always completely filthy, maybe he enjoys the interaction of you cleaning him so he doesn't want to do it himself
Good luck to finding the secret of a clean piggy

Xx
 
I have a really stinky piggie too. I'm not sure why he smells so much. I wish I knew how to help him also.

Hope you find what to do with yours!
 
Thanks guys - happy to hear I am not the only one with a stinky piggy! Obviously Nemo was taken away from his mother at the standard 3-4 weeks for males, or atleast that is what I'm guessing. Baby piggies are sort of born ready to go though. Anyway my other boar Peanut isn't particularly messy and neither is baby Godzilla. I still bath Peanut because he is long hair too but not half as much.

Nemo doesn't seem to hate the bath, he looks like a drowned rat when he's all lathered up but he doesn't really try to get out of the water.
 
My girl Pumpkin (RIP) was always mucky. Refused to let her piggie friends groom her. She'd lie down in wee and eat the roots of grass and get mud smeared around her face. Lucky for me she wasn't a long hair. :))
 
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