Did Your Pigs Get More Cuddly With Age?

[Mamphers]

As above! We handle or boys loads and they get free roam, in fact are mostly free range when we're at home. They will happily get strokes in the cage and are content when on our laps as long as the veg is available. Just wondering if they get a bit more hill with age!

Our boys are nearly a year old. So close to getting out of the grumpy teen phase too! Hooray!

 

[Kallasia]

I got my boys in February from a rescue and one would tolerate stroking (3-4yrs old) and one was so scared of everything (8 weeks) he wouldn't let us near him.
Now they both enjoy lap time and cuddles and whilst the younger one is still a bit skittish he's chilled out a lot

 

[DM030819]

It all depends on the pig.

I have a plucky, brave adventurous 4 year old boar that has, or had any interest in cuddles. He wants to be off and exploring.

I also have a timid 3 year old that has calmed down and I can cuddle him now. But I don't think he enjoys it much.

I had a pig who hated people for years and would do his very best to hide. But when he got to about 4 he was the cuddliest pig ever.

And my last boar Anselmo got worse with age. He was such a cantankerous old man in the end haha.

 

[Redribbon]

No! Mine are teenage boys who certainly don't want to be cuddled!

 

[Lorcan]

I have one boar who doesn't mind contact but would clearly prefer to be off exploring and giving me heart attacks. I have one boar who does not do contact at all unless it's to snatch veg off me I doubt he'll ever be much different, it took several months before he'd even come near me for food.

 

[flowerfairy]

Not yet!

 

[rome_italy]

I see every day is even worse... when they were little they used to spend a lot of time on my lap. Now no purrs and after a minute they turn back and give me their butt or they start licking me because they need to wee. And as I am naughty, I put the piggie down to wee and then I take her in my arms again! and she again, after one minute, has a new wee ready!!!

 

[Kylie80]

Lap time was always a nightmare with my piggies. One just wanted to run off to explore when she was a littley and later on she couldn't stand lap time for more than two minutes. She's nearly a year old now and is still the anti social pig but actually likes lap time more than her more sociable sister who has only ever just tolerated a cuddle.

 

[shannonandrosy]

I hope Rosie and Mona grow out of that soon. They are still nervous. Will take food from you. Once picked are fine. Rosie knows when she is going back to her cage shhe starts squirming the closer i get.My husband has this routine in the evening with their veggies. He starts buy calling their names and which ever ones he calls will be th one that wheeks and after a couple times he will give them their veggies. But they still run from us if they think we are trying to pick them up. I wish they would grow out of this asi want them to trust us

 

[LaurenKaye]

my older guinea pig is more scared than the younger onebutaf ter having them for many months they have both become much more calm and cool.

 

[Mother Hubbard]

Yes, I would say so.

I had one girl called Flossie who was a rescue who wasn't at all happy about it, however it took several years for her to accept proper cuddly lap time when we'd get chooken legs.