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Chock has been sleeping most of today as he's had a lot of fresh dandelion at lunch time so that means i will probably be up half the night because of a highper piglet...ooo joy...
 
thankfully Chock didn't keep me up last night. he was to busy gnawing a toilet roll.
he had another 2 and a half hours out his cage this morning which meant that i could spot clean under his house, take all the wood out and replace both wood and hay with out him getting distressed by not being able to get in to his bedroom/kitchen area
 
i think i'm going to go ahead and upgrade Chocks living space tomoro when i go to get hay for him
I think it will do him good to have a bigger living space in case i cant run him for some reason.
will let you know how i get on with the living space situation...
 
i just hope if i do go ahead and find a suitable living space that it fits in the car...
 
It could be a very costly trip tomoro but its only money and i'd rather spend it in a way where i'm gonna see the benifit or in my case, hear the benifit lol
 
i think Chock will be happyer if his living space was bigger to be honest
the reason why i havent considdered changeing it till now was because i was going up and down the country and his current cage fits in a car quite nicely but as i am no longer doing this it makes sence to upgrade it...
 
my friend tryed having a go at me last weekend about how i look after chock and it really got my back up.
he said that chock was living a horible life and i shouldn't have him at all.
This is all because of the fact that i cant have him totally free ranging in my room as i could step on him and hurt him or he could hurt him self
I said to him that Chock is looked after as best as he can be given i don't have sight.
The vet also said when he went to have his nails cut that he was the healthyest pig he had seen in over 5 years an exotic vet and he wanted to know what i was doing to keep him so healthy.
My answer was "lots of different hays and a lot of snuggle time and floor time in a pen" the vet said i was to keep it up and he wished that there were more pig owners like me so i felt really smug when i told my friend this then he promptly shut up and didn't bring it up again.
Thats what you call someone being put in their place... :)
 
my friend tryed having a go at me last weekend about how i look after chock and it really got my back up.
he said that chock was living a horible life and i shouldn't have him at all.
This is all because of the fact that i cant have him totally free ranging in my room as i could step on him and hurt him or he could hurt him self
I said to him that Chock is looked after as best as he can be given i don't have sight.
The vet also said when he went to have his nails cut that he was the healthyest pig he had seen in over 5 years an exotic vet and he wanted to know what i was doing to keep him so healthy.
My answer was "lots of different hays and a lot of snuggle time and floor time in a pen" the vet said i was to keep it up and he wished that there were more pig owners like me so i felt really smug when i told my friend this then he promptly shut up and didn't bring it up again.
Thats what you call someone being put in their place... :)
 
CANT BELIEVE HOW HURTFUL PEOPLE CAN BE TO EACH OTHER>>>HONESTLY!
 
i couldn't go to pick up Chocks living space today as my support workers clutch is going and she didn't want to put me at risk by driving me there in case something happened which is quite right
i will have access to a car mid week though as my usual support worker is training and so i will have another support worker covering her shift and she has a car so i will be able to pick up hay and stuff for him on wednesday afternoon
will let you know how it goes if i get him a new living space or not...
 
chock is really flurishing because of the different grasses that i'm feeding him
i've noticed it particularly in the texture of his coat
its lovely soft silky and shiny. must be doing something right...
 
got chocks house upgraded to an indoor rabbit cage as i wanted to do.
he's loving the extra space!
he wasn't happy when i got the cage in though as he missread things and was on the hear out for another pig but when i started taking things out his cage and putting them in the new one he calmed down over the other pig issue and got excited once he realised the cage was his cage alone and he wasn't going to have to shair the space in any way.
pigs always amaiz me :)
 
he had a complex over it last night...
when ever i went near him or walked passed him it set off a storm of teeth clicking but he's back to normal now as of this morning when he tryed to get to my eye brows so he could wash them
what is it with my pig and my eye brows?
pigs and their querks...
he's a lot happyer as well which is nice to pick up on...
i'm doing my job right as a responsable pig keeper if this happens :)
 
I THINK THEY SHOULD RECCOMEND THAT IF YOUR GONNA GET PIGS AND KEEP THEM IN A STORE CAGE THEY REALLY SHOULD SUGGEST PUTTING THE PIGS IN RABBIT CAGES AS THEY BOTH RUN ABOUT ON THE FLAT SO THEY NEED EQUAL SPACE TO BOUNCE ABOUT I THINK BUT THATS JUST MY OBSERVATION>
 
even the rabbit cages arn't really big enough but as i cant build a c and c cage i have to get the biggest cage i can
the one he's in just fits on the table that he's been on since we moved in here...
 
I agree Maddy.When buying a new piggy cage I always Google "indoor rabbit cage"otherwise lots of tiny little cages I wouldn't keep a hamster in come up.I think in general the cages are improving but there are still a lot of silly little ones for sale.
I'm glad Chock likes his new cage.He sounds like a very happy little chap:tu:
 
the woman who was showing me the different cages thought housing pigs in rabbit cages was a really good idea.
when i put the guinea pig cages on the top of it to demonstrate a point she started to cry because she could see how small the cages they were selling for pigs were far too small but she's not aloud to reccomend a rabbit cage for pigs as she will get in trubble so i really felt sorry for her.
chock loves his new cage though so i am glad i went for it and got it for himm as he's now much better for handling and social time on my lap as he no longer feels the need to not sit still and be stroked as he now has the space to get some speed on inside it so he burns more energy and makes him self tired i think so he's happy to ly on me and have some snuggle time where he was a nightmare before the cage switch.
 
i have noticed since i started giving Chock different kinds of hay his coat has went really silky to touch
he is really enjoying the different ones.
 
Chock has started chirping at 6 a m again
i'm thinking its because of the cage change thats causing him to do that
What i've done today is put hay in his house as usual but i've also scattered a different hay all over the cage floor to see if this stops him from doing the same thing tomoro morning.
its a lovely noise and all that but not at 6 a m...
 
Chock has started chirping at 6 a m again
i'm thinking its because of the cage change thats causing him to do that
What i've done today is put hay in his house as usual but i've also scattered a different hay all over the cage floor to see if this stops him from doing the same thing tomoro morning.
its a lovely noise and all that but not at 6 a m...
 
Chock is now refusing to eat the wilco hay totally
the last cupple of bails havn't smelled right to me and i don't eat hay so i don't blame him for not wanting to eat it.
the question i've been asking my self is this...
why does a 1.5 kg bail only cost £150
Answer...
the quality is rubbish...
 
Chock asked to go home this morning rather than falling asleep in his pen like he normally does
i see his request to go back to his new cage as progress :)
 
he's been needing a bigger living space for a while but i was going from peterborough to Reading and a larger cage wouldn't have fitted in a car very well but as i'm no longer doing this i decided to upgrade his cage but its taken him since Wednesday afternoon to get use to the bigger space.
He's getting there slowly though mind you.
I's pleased with the progress. :)
 
the hay scattering trick over the cage floor seems to have stopped the chirping for the time being at least.
 
having edable stuff over the cage floor has seemed to settle him as he hasn't chirped since Saturday morning since i started doing that so i think he's now settled enough in the bigger space so he no longer chirps which is good...
 
i'm going to get more hay today as i couldn't get as much as i wanted to last week as the new cage took up most of the space in the car...
 
You are a brilliant owner and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.He is lucky to have you.Pleased he is settling in.I have my two boys in a 154 rabbit cage.Wouldn't even contemplate anything smaller than a 140 for guinea pigs.
 
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