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Guinea pig temper tantrums

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Today, I was quite busy as we have guests coming to stay, so I had to hoover the living room, polish the coffee table, and just clean, in general. The guineas are there, but they had been fed and watered.

Choccy who is the little explorer saw me milling about and started biting on the bars of the cage, wheeking loudly, but not from hunger as he had been fed. I spoke to him for a little bit, and carried on. He then started running laps around the cage - clockwise, counter clockwise, jumping (or hurdling) over his cage mates and food bowl!

I ignored him for a little bit, and he started to use his head to tip his pigloo over, shunting it all over the place. He then started to lift one of the lighter food bowls with his head and flip it across the cage, sending vegetables flying (much to the bewilderment of his cagemates!) :))

I know what this temper tantrum was about, he wanted to be let out for floor time. I quickly let him out, he trundled out and glared at me as if to say "How dare you keep me a prisoner!" Then popcorned around the living room! rolleyes

What a demanding little piggy!

Anyone else have a demanding piggy who throws temper tantrums?
 
yep all the time my boar ( max ) is constanly after food i once brought some healthy nuggety stuff as a change and he refused to eat it and knocked into the little tray of water i keep for them to have a dip in! my sow jessie was rather bewildered and stareted squeeking really loudly!
 
I loved that story, so funny. Think mine are perhaps just getting old, they are content, even more so today now the trio have returned.
 
:(|) :(|) just picturing it :(|) :(|)
Rocket is exceptionally good at " hard stares" when he wants to show his displeasure, probably should have called him Paddington. :))
 
Oh gosh that's adorable! Scuzzy never does anything too extreme; just screams as loud as he can when the refrigerator is opened since he knows that's where his celery is. He can't do it with this cage, but in his old tiny one he would also stand on his hind legs and gnaw the bars to make even more noise if he felt I wasn't giving him proper attention.

I've given up now, but when I first got him I'd sneak home veggies from the kitchen where I work at to see if he'd eat them. The cherry tomato he just sniffed up and down before wanting nothing to do with it, but the sprouts he actually plucked out of his dish and threw them on cage ground. He was not happy.

When he doesn't want to be pet he'll give the palm of my hand a hard headbutt accompanied by an annoyed squeak. He'll also chew my sleeves.
 
I know the feeling! Gerry has tantrums. When I do the big clean they all sit in their carry boxes. They all usually take the opportunity to have a nap but when Gerry wakes up he gets fed up very quickly and starts biting the bars, if that doesn't work he'll go underneath the vet bed and start tugging at it trying to rip it up.
I know at that point I have to start working faster!
 
So funny. Humbert does his annoyed loud wheek when I try to keep him on my lap when he'd rather get off to explore the sofa or livingroom. Also, if something is in his way, he will use his head to bulldozer through pretty much anything, whilst squeeking loudly.
 
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