Do Your Piggies Have Habits?

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i just wondered if any one had noticed if any of their piggies had habits? I've noticed roddy has a habit of when he eats his pellets he always goes back and forth for a drink, it's quite sweet really and he always leaves crumbs in the bowl!
 
Cookie, Peaches, Smudge and now maybe Luna always sit up on their wooden house but I have never seen Beano. Cookie stands up on her back legs when I come into the room. And whenever I give them fresh water Beano always drinks lots and lots but never drinks much other times. Even though the spout is working.
 
Sundae always runs off with her food to eat in private. We have two food bowls now because she will drag the whole bowl off into the pigloo to eat it privately. If I put treats out in the hall for them, she will grab one and the hightail it off to the corner to eat it alone. Hadley watches TV... whenever she sits on our laps, she will angle herself to face the TV before flopping down. If we turn her around, she turns herself back around. She must like the light/movement.
 
Yes they do! Pinky, my only boy pig, likes to charge about the cage pushing everything out the way with his head.. Usually th houses when one of the other pigs is having a nice lie down in it. He also likes to sit on top of the bridge with his back to the room facing the wall!
Mouse can be found sitting on top of the houses and bridge too.. But Oreo likes to sit under the bridge. I don't think she knows how to jump up onto things!
Fuzzy has a weird way of sniffing the air so keenly that she lifts her head so far back that she nearly falls over. I've never seen anything like it before.
 
He he, it is really interesting to hear all these little ways:) My eldest boar. Buddy likes to watch TV too:) Barney pushes things around with his nose and rearranges the furniture! He also likes to play with a plastic ball with a bell inside, he rolls it around in floortime:) A few of mine grab a piece of veg and run away with it high in the air like a prize to eat it, always makes me smile:) Suki likes to sit on top of huts and bridges, Cookie will lay on my lap for a while, then turn and look at me, I know what is coming, she pretty much jumps right up to under my chin and snuggles there:) Love them all :)
 
My Fudge has the most little quirks.. And i adore her for them. My other two sows use a puppy pad to toilet when they have floor time (they actually run over to pee and run back again for their veg!) but fudge doesnt.. She runs to the unit her cage is on, and stares at it, then runs up to the bed as if to say "cmon mum i needa pee!". The minute her feet touch the vetbed, she wees. If she on my lap, she just simply gets up to walk away and i know she needs.

Another funny thing she does- if her favourite hidey is put at the right hand side of the cage (beside the ramp that goes into another cage) and not the left, she will get in it, and headbutt it until it tips. I will put it back and she will keep on doing it until i switch the beds and put hers on the left- then she lies down!

She also runs up the bridge, but only uses her front legs to walk down the other end and drags her back ones like they dont work!

She also likes to get in the dustpan when i poop scoop.

Shes my little puddin' :)
 
Tea time is a good one in our house. Fudge has decided that tea time veg is getting earlier and earlier! She will sit on the house, in the direction of where I'm sittin and stare at me. She has started stamping her feet and chortling along to make sure I can hear her if I'm pretending not to see her. The last couple of days Biscuit has jumped up there too, and ended up in the dish (the one that's made into the house bit) so they are sat side by side, stamping their feet & chortling along together. They take it in turns to jump off, run to the bars & peer over to see if veg is coming yet and then jumping back up on the house. Yesterday I stood up without making sound and they both started wheeking.

Whenever we have lap time together, Biscuit likes to sit directly next to me and she will climb over Fudge/sit on Fudge to make sure she is as close to me as can be. Biscuit also likes to sit with her head to my right during evening lap time, probably because then she can nosy and see what else is happening in the living room!

If Fudge doesn't want the piece of food in my hand, she will take it & throw it to one side and then bite the bars because obviously I should know that she didn't want that piece.

They both move their furniture around.
 
Mine all have funny little habits but the best is Katie, who always has her own pile of hay outside her cozy and she follows us around when we are putting it out to make sure we put some there and will shout at us if we aren't quite quick enough.

A few others:

Emma always popcorns when she gets her morning hay and is always first to ask for her nightly digestive vitamin which involves her headbutting a plastic stool up in the air until we notice.
Ellie always dives under the hay pile
Tabs and Thumbles always wait for their pellets with their paws on the bowl
Sophie always waits until I put their fleece over her and Tim's hay loft before diving in and will sit there for ages if we forget
 
Glinda always has a drink when she knows it is dinner time! While the others chew on the bars (Elphie was particularly bad for this! The racket that pig made!), Glinda is gulping away at her water.

A rather annoying habit that Clara has right now is biting me. We've found no obvious cause for her biting...Simon says she is just a naughty pig! It is a habit I hope she will grow out of, sharpish!
 
Liane said:
Glinda always has a drink when she knows it is dinner time! While the others chew on the bars (Elphie was particularly bad for this! The racket that pig made!), Glinda is gulping away at her water.

A rather annoying habit that Clara has right now is biting me. We've found no obvious cause for her biting...Simon says she is just a naughty pig! It is a habit I hope she will grow out of, sharpish!
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Mine went through a phase of nibbling and biting me but one day they just stopped
 
Romano has a habit of pushing the pigloo or boxes around until hes happy with where they are. This has often resulted in me laughing my ass off at him. It's hilarious.
He also does the pellet thing the OP mentioned. Very cute.

Bakura has a habit of sitting with two front paws crossed over one another, head held up and lightly tilted like a model. Or if hes being lazy, I will see him sitting on his fluffy backside like a beanbag. Sadly he's camerashy so I haven't gotten a photo of either.

Ryou has a habit of running to his teddy bear to sulk if he has had a fall out with Sakurai and sits on top of it.
He also has a habit of grabbing food out of the bowl and shaking it around visciously like a dinosaur, often hitting poor Sakurai in the face with it.

Sakurai doesn't have any habits that I can think of. She's a good girl.
 
Thor always throws himself around like a hairy wrecking ball when I'm cleaning the hay tray every morning, then as soon as I put the freshly empty tray back in, he'll jump straight onto the newspaper to wait for his morning hay shower.

Pixel is turning into a very impatient monster at laptime; she used to nibble my clothes to let me know she needed a wee, but now, as she's worked out that nibbling = going back in the cage, she nibbles - and then bites! - within seconds of being picked up :(

Widget luuuuurves her veggies and stands up like a little meerkat on her back legs :love:
 
Connie always waits in the same place wheeking for her veg -even though it's nowhere near where the veg bowl goes and twice a day she has to rush over to the bowl on the other side of the cage, duh.
Violet won't sit in the hay tray and insists on dragging the hay out of the tray and under her favourite plastic stool where she makes it into a stinky nest.
Mr Ted invites you to stroke him by reversing himself up to the bars and then sits there making little whimpering type noises which don't stop until you give him a chin rub.
Mollie is just mad. Teddy/Aby cross = nutter. Hurtles round the cage especially at poop scooping time, seems to love sending a neatly stacked pile of poo flying very which way and then trying to attack the brush.
Funny how they all have little habits.
 
It's great reading all these, makes me giggle:) Alvin, here in my profile pic, just loves his hay! He will squiggle popcorn like mad when I am putting fresh hay in his box and he runs under it and burys himself there happily. If I can't see him in his run, he is under hay 976.webp !
 
One of my girls holly gets a piece of food and take a few bites out of it then places her left paw on it and repeats it. She ends up with all the food under her paw.
 
My guys starts rataling the water bottles to tell me they want there tree veg , the olnly troble is that
Its getting earla each day,
Little Robin is the first , and the rest follow suit , l swere that little Robin is empathic
 
gizzy said:
My guys starts rataling the water bottles to tell me they want there tree veg , the olnly troble is that
Its getting earla each day,
Little Robin is the first , and the rest follow suit , l swere that little Robin is empathic
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You've reminded me that One of my pairs used to have ceramic bowls and they would clank them together to get our attention for feeding time. It got earlier and earlier each morning and afternoon And at weekends when we wanted a lie in it was unbearable, so I changed all the bowls to plastic ones!
 
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