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Floortime, How long does everyone give there pigs?

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Since being split into pairs my pigs are getting alot less floortime as they need to be out separate I give a minimum of 30 minutes, per pair. Was wondering how long everyone else gave there pigs?
 
About the same. My boys get about 30 minutes each day. They normally try and get back in the cage during this time, though! :{
 
Mimsi & the girls get about half an hour and Montgomery gets the rest of floor time. The girls are quite timid and tend to hide under the wardrobe. As does Mimsi when he is out. Montgomery makes full use of exercise time and he is out his cage most of the day when I'm home..
 
Normally mine get about half an hour too but on days I'm not working they get a bit longer.
Last night they were out popcorning and running about the greenhouse for about an hour and a half (dont worry it wasnt hot) so it kind of depends really....
 
if its weekend they get about 4 hours.

in the week anything from half hour to two hours. last night they didnt get any, it just depends on the sitution on the day x
 
My two come out a couple of times a week for floor time (They do get cuddles every night though!) and they usually get around an hour as i'll let them out when i first get home (Loaded with veggies else they start telling me off with wheeks :o)

Then i'll go about my business cleaning up and having tea, i'll clean out their cage then it's cuddle time where they watch the news with me lol :)
 
Ours are outdoor piggies so probably slightly different, but if we are home and it's a nice day they come out in the morning when i get up and are popped away again at teatime. They love it their run with loads of hay, tunnels and hideaways.
 
Ours kind of have free run of the living room, we leave their cage and run open and have made a fleecy bed for them under the coffee table which is where they are most of the time and just go into the run and cage to feed. They run about for about half hour a night that we see though god knows what they are up to when we are out or in bed, All wires and dangerous stuff are blocked off.
 
helen105281 said:
Ours kind of have free run of the living room, we leave their cage and run open and have made a fleecy bed for them under the coffee table which is where they are most of the time and just go into the run and cage to feed. They run about for about half hour a night that we see though god knows what they are up to when we are out or in bed, All wires and dangerous stuff are blocked off.
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Don't they pee and poo everywhere in your living room :(|) mine would :))
 
They are fantatsic, they go under the coffee table but we have puppy pads down and change the fleece regularly, and if they are running about they will use the litter tray in the cage. Even Johnny does and we have only had him a few days, think he is copying Gert. We occasionally find the odd poo elsewhere but never any wee.
 
Oooohh you have well trained piggies! :)

Is your living room carpeted or laminate?

I've got laminate in the bedroom where their cage is- i was thinking of putting the sheet i use for floortime most of the way across the floor with fleece on top (But this wouldn't cover the whole area) and slotting the side off the cage so they can wonder in and out as they please- and in the hope that if i do this they go to the toilet anywhere other the the laminate flooring lol!

At the moment i section of an area that the sheet will cover so they don't actually mess on the floor lol!
 
At the moment mine only get run time not floor time and they are in the run pretty much all day (weather permitting). Of course Dolly can't go in the run so hubby is making her a pen in the shed where she can go with Dink in the days while the others are in the run.
 
JackyB said:
Don't they pee and poo everywhere in your living room :(|) mine would :))
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I've just started giving mine total free rein in the living room and I have been amazed. They picked a corner that they wanted as their toilet corner and I just put a black bin liner down with a towel on top and they just go on there. They are fantastic. To see two piggies run at top speeds chasing each other in and out is really a fantastic sight. I always used to put them in an enclosure in the lounge and they would be in it for a couple of hours and then a bit of cuddle/lap time. With them having free rein they have been out longer as they just ditter about themselves. I also have put a towel under the church pew and they cuddle into that and go to sleep. The naughty boys have been having a sly chew of my pew but I suppose they are adding character rolleyes:))rolleyes
 
pinkyjo said:
I've just started giving mine total free rein in the living room and I have been amazed. They picked a corner that they wanted as their toilet corner and I just put a black bin liner down with a towel on top and they just go on there. They are fantastic. To see two piggies run at top speeds chasing each other in and out is really a fantastic sight. I always used to put them in an enclosure in the lounge and they would be in it for a couple of hours and then a bit of cuddle/lap time. With them having free rein they have been out longer as they just ditter about themselves. I also have put a towel under the church pew and they cuddle into that and go to sleep. The naughty boys have been having a sly chew of my pew but I suppose they are adding character rolleyes:))rolleyes
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Congratulations pinkyjo...I know you'd given it a try and didn't realise it was such a success...fantastic news. Not sure about the pew though...although I guess it's good for their teeth! :(|)

Mine get out into the garden each night when I get home about 1 hour (also weather permitting) then in for a big feed (i.e. mummy has been shopping again) and take in turns each night for a cuddle on the lap (depending on my success rate of catching one slippery so&so of course!) Bloss is the easy target as she's not called Big Bum Bloss for nothing. When the hubby is away or late, they get a couple of hours in the utility, kitchen and dinning room (their fav for playing kiss & chase). Weekends...well worlds your oyster girls...popcorn til your spinach is grown! Wheek wheek. x>>
 
Well it really depends on the weather! ;) If it's a warm day and the grass isn't wet, they go outside in there 4x3ft run. They have a shelter in the run so that they get shade from the sun, so if it's the weekend they are sometimes in all day! :(|) However if it's a week day (i go to school) I put them in their run when I get home (as long as the weather's nice) for an hour or 2 unless it starts to rain or gets cold! :) If it's really nice then I put them in before school or if it's cold in the morning and get's warmer in the afternoon my Mum will put them out! :))
If it's a bad day they don't get much floor time. :0 I bring them in but only for about 15 minutes everyday because my parents don't like having them inside! (unless it's Winter and it's where they sleep) They make such a mess. :(
 
JackyB said:
Oooohh you have well trained piggies! :)

Is your living room carpeted or laminate?
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Is carpet and am forever out with the carpet cleaner spray as the hamsters are always weeing in their balls. Today when we got home G and J had pooed about a million times under the table so got rid of all of them and tried to refresh the fleece with a pet odour spray (a safe vegetable one from the health food shop). Well they wouldn't go near it after that so had to change it rolleyes Good job I got the 2 for 3 quid ones from Asda.

Tonight they have been running about all evening but seem to be snapping at each other when they get too close (i.e they both try to sit in the same small gap).
 
I open my boys' pen when I'm at home and they come out for a play and a run round the living room, then they just go back in when they're ready, it's up to them. Unless of course I need to go out in which case I just put some food in their pen and they're back in like a shot :)) Because they decide they can be out anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours :)
 
Mine don't get any floor time... Terrible, I know, but in my defence their every day pen is pretty big. I hope to start it up once the new cage is done. I think it's nice for them to experience new surroundings!
 
Mine are free range in the spare room. They used to be shut in their cage at night and let out again in the morning but the cage is too small now since since the addition of my 3 new girlies in January.

I couldn't have them in the living room as they have completely trashed the spare room and the hall! Despite my best efforts to stop them, they've eaten the skirting boards, peeled the wallpaper off the wall, nibbled all round the wooden bed base and even eaten the mattress!

They have 2 cages in the room for their hay and water and various shelters around the edges of the room. I put newspaper, towels and fleece under their shelters and they mainly poop and pee here as well as in their cages. Although I do find a few poops in the middle of the floor too and as for the hay, that just gets everywhere!

I clean the cages at least twice a day and change the beds, towels and fleece usually every 3 days. But the place always looks and smells like a barn! Still, my pigs are happy and that's the main thing.
 
I felt bad because I only gave my piggies half an hour. They get loads at the weekend. Thanks for not making me feel like a rubbish mummy.
 
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