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I was just remembering an incident with Blitzen. I mean you all heard me tell stories about him. He was the antisocial brains of the pair and refused to let me hold him unless he could be looking over my shoulder. So one day, I have a visitor who takes a shine to him. I already had him out (they were on the sofa at the time) and she held him for a bit, with him sitting staring over her shoulder. And I swear she just...rocked him to sleep. He never slept unless he was in a hidey in the cage, but he slept on her shoulder AND with his eyes closed.

I was sitting there like really, mate? But he was just so relaxed. I never saw him that relaxed ever again, lol.

After that he went back into the cage and then stole the pepper slice Comet was eating. So, back to normal then. :))

There was also the day I had a couple of visitors over and they'd met the boys before, I think they were about six months old at this point. So they didn't really come out much when people were around, they'd show their faces but mostly they just slept in hideys. This day however, for some reason they decided to have an hour long rough-and-tumble and my visitors were getting worried. "Are they okay?" "That's not normal is it?" "Are they hurting each other?" "Are they not getting along?" and I had to explain that this was perfectly normal, I got to listen to the excited squealing from this all night, so I didn't know why they were doing it _now_, but no, this was standard boar behaviour.

I had two fleece tunnels in the cages once. Somehow they both squeezed themselves into the smaller tunnel and I had to do some interesting manoeuvres to get them both out again. Afterwards they kind of looked at me like "We were comfy, why'd you do that?" Gits.
 
Many years ago we had two guinea pigs when my son was little. Their cage was kept in an airy garage in winter. One morning went in and cleaned them out in a bit of a hurry. They always moved from end to end while cleaning them out, first bedroom then living room. So redid newspaper and hay, shuts doors and off the local tip to dispose of hay and newspaper.
Came back, changed water bottle and popped food in etc. Only to find ONE PIGGIE MISSING? Rushed back to tip in a blind panic, tearfully spoke to council workman how I must of emptied piggy along with waste bedding into what was then an almost empty skip, that now was full and had a divan sticking out of it. The poor man said don’t worry love we’ll get her out! Three men and 10 minutes later skip cleared but still no piggie?

Their faces were a picture and I knew exactly what they were thinking!

Rush back home like a woman possessed, searched the garage only to find piggie sat underneath cage nibbling on some old hay as if nothing had happened! She must have jumped out while I fetched the fresh hay and newspaper!

Lesson learnt - stop rushing about and think things through before panicking lol
 
One of my previous pigs, Radish, was a real character. Loved cuddles, having time in the run munching the grass etc. However, he did have a bit of an escape artist streak, as I found out one day.

I’d put Chutney and Radish out in their run as usual, and since they’d had a happy couple of hours munch8ng grass, went to bring them back in. Opened the run...and only Chutney was in the hidey. No sign of Radish. Considering he was a Himi, it should have been easy to spot him when out in the run. But he wasn’t in there. Looked over the surrounding lawn - no sign of him.

Worried, I put Chutney back in the cage, then turned to have another look. Only to see a small white shape sitting on the edge of the lawn by the border! Luckily managed to grab him before he dived off into the undergrowth. He was none the worse for his little adventure, thankfully!

As to how he’d gotten out of the run...I’d accidentally put the run on uneven lawn, and Radish had found there was a nice sized gap for him to squeeze under!
 
Bill & Ted said:
Many years ago we had two guinea pigs when my son was little. Their cage was kept in an airy garage in winter. One morning went in and cleaned them out in a bit of a hurry. They always moved from end to end while cleaning them out, first bedroom then living room. So redid newspaper and hay, shuts doors and off the local tip to dispose of hay and newspaper.
Came back, changed water bottle and popped food in etc. Only to find ONE PIGGIE MISSING? Rushed back to tip in a blind panic, tearfully spoke to council workman how I must of emptied piggy along with waste bedding into what was then an almost empty skip, that now was full and had a divan sticking out of it. The poor man said don’t worry love we’ll get her out! Three men and 10 minutes later skip cleared but still no piggie?

Their faces were a picture and I knew exactly what they were thinking!

Rush back home like a woman possessed, searched the garage only to find piggie sat underneath cage nibbling on some old hay as if nothing had happened! She must have jumped out while I fetched the fresh hay and newspaper!

Lesson learnt - stop rushing about and think things through before panicking lol
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This reminds me of a story with my rabbit Casper when I was younger.

My mum was looking after him whilst I was at university. Back then we new know better and let him free range in the garden whilst we were cleaning him out. Well my mum came to put him back in his hutch and she could y find him ANYWHERE. She frantically went round to all the neighbours searching their gardens like a woman prosessed. 3 hours later and fearing the worst getting ready to make the phone call to me that she had lost Casper, there he was hopping out from underneath the settee. Yes, he had made his way in to the house and had a field of a time exploring and leaving little presents everywhere so she knew exactly where he had been :D
 
I’m a bit late to this thread but here’s the story: When we first got Bacon we already had Smokey (we got Bacon after Smokey’s friend Smudge passed) and I was trying to talk to Bacon (tame him) Smokey decided to jump over his back and pee, on his back... That was actually the first time I picked Bacon up because I had to clean pee off his back. 😂 Not a particularly long story and maybe it’s just me who finds it funny 😂
 
My funniest story is probably Theo scaring the boiler repair man. Theo is super friendly and at the time he was very small, but he expects anyone who comes to the house to have a kind word and a bag of piggy food!
So a man came to service the boiler and walked past the piggy playpen and Theo took an instant dislike to him (big bag of tools and not a single carrot in there?!) and started rumble strutting... then growling... louder and louder... the boiler man got really freaked out and asked where the growling dog was :) it was just a little 700g piggy, boiler man left really embarassed and Theo got praise from his lady friends for being so brave and scaring the evil carrot-less intruder away :)
 
My funniest story is possibly the one that happened when I and the piggies went on holiday to my sisters flat. My mom was drove the car and I sat next to her with the piggies in a big basket on my knees. Linnea got inpatient after nearly an hour of driving and started to star at me. I didn’t think about it until she just jumped out of the basked and climbed on my shoulder. I didn’t even know they she was able to do that. Up on my shoulder she just laid down and slept there.
 
I had 2 boys called Pinky and Perky about 25 years ago. First time we let them out in the garden they disappeared into our rockery into the smallest gap possible. My mum and I tried everything to get them out, but they just wouldn't budge. My dad ended up coming home from work early to carefully dismantle the rockery and get them out! We then had an addition of a house brick in the rockery to block the gap.
 
I've told this story before, but it still makes me smile.
Chicco spends his life rumblestrutting and trying to have chin offs with his two cagemates. One day Little Dude (the most laid back piggy on the planet) was snoozing in his hammock. Chicco came up and rumbled a bit then stuck his face in the air for a chin off.... I swear Little Dude looked at him and without even lifting his head, did the biggest yawn in Chicco's face. It was not one of those aggressive yawns, and I could almost hear him saying 'yeah yeah, we all know you're tough now p***off and let me sleep'
 
My guinea pig Gilbert was not allowed Pellets because of his diet. However, his cage mate Ludwig was a major fan of pellets. They were his favourite food in the world. Two days after banning pellets I had been out shopping and came home to hear what sounded like guinea pigs running around the room? Confused I rushed upstairs to their room and saw the CC grids open, Ludwig sat there with an open bag of pellets sitting there eating as many as he wanted. Gilbert was also eating a few and the room was trashed. I have no idea how long they were running around destroying the bedroom or Ludwig giddily eating his pellets. I laughed so hard. They had never escaped before. I can only imagine Ludwig was so determined to get to those delicious pellets that Gilbert just went along for the ride.

I decided from then onwards I would take Ludwig out to give him a small handful of pellets. Instead he decided to take it into his own hands and he hopped off of my lap and climbed INTO the pellet box. He wouldn't let me take him out. After he was sufficiently happy with the amount he had eaten, he hopped out and fell asleep (short nap) next to the box :)) I think he had a bit of an addiction.

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One of my childhood piggies was a beautiful black and gold aby called Scamper- a misnomer if ever there was one. She was the laziest piggy whose idea of exercise was to turn round on the lawn for fresh grass when she’d eaten all she could reach.
One day she was out - I was sitting with her when she suddenly took off.
I had never seen that girl move so fast.
She headed straight for my father’s carrots and I watched the tops tumble down like dominos as she ploughed through them before I could catch her.
 
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