How Active Are Your Pigs?

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I am asking because my boys seem to be lazing around more but having an active hour in the evening. Just wondering if it is normal :)
 
Mine are super-lazy, I've only realised it recently as I've been stuck on the sofa with lurgy for a few days. They sleep probably 70% of the time and occasionally get up for a munch and scuttle then go back to bed! They're more active during floor time at least :)
 
All three of mine are lazy. Edward is the worst he can't even be bothered to try any romance with Mrs Simpson and cousin Amelia. When they are having floor time they just laze around eating or sleeping.:D
 
I have to say my girls are usually quite active hopping around the hay. But they do like to sleep in their hideys quite a bit.
 
Very lazy.

Sakurai just hides in a cosy or pigloo at free range time. Ryou walks around for a bit then sits sulking that Sakurai is hiding away.

Matthew and Romano aren't too lazy when on free range but they just sit and eat hay. Matthew does enjoy a good wander when hes not eating but he enjoys food too much so only if the hay isn't there will he go and explore, then you can't stop him.
 
Thank you for the replies! Was beginning to think they were just bored and hated me :D
 
Chief Guinea Pig said:
In that case my girls already hate me! Haha. When we just go to get a packet of cotton wool they start the wheek wheek and they only just ate veg! Surely I cannot give them more! :blink:
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The boys are the same here. So greedy! At least they haven't been eating wallpaper again!
 
The girls come out for floor time and spend the while time causing mischief of one type or another, but when I put them back in their run only Connie seems to do anything. Violet seems a real sloth. In the his and hers run Mr Ted is often on the go shoulder barging and rearranging things but Mrs Fudge is a real couch potato. And when they come out all she does is waddle to the nearest hidey and settle in for a nap, whereas he is off minxing and popcorning. So a mix of both really. Mind you Mrs Fudge is getting on for 5 so I wonder if that explains her lack of get up and go..
 
Most of mine are lazy but they do have mad moments. Fuzzy and Katie are probably the liveliest and Barney used to go charging up the hall most nights.
 
Mine are active in the morning, doze most of the day, and active again in the evening. Active for Sundae means trotting around, eating and foraging, etc (she will be 5 in April, so she is an older adult pig.) Hadley is only 4 or 5 months so her active periods are very, VERY active! LOL!
 
Tango and Cash were very chilled, Cash would do zoomies when he was little but once they were both 1 year+ they settled for just pottering about and would spend most of their floor time sitting in the cosies! :doh:

Ludo is generally pretty chilled too but he does like to explore during floor time (at his own cautious pace!) and we've even seen him popcorn a few times now.

...now Wyatt on the other hand does EVERYTHING at 110mph. He makes me feel tired just watching!
 
So it is just a varying thing between pigs.

They have their occasional zoomies but it isn't all that often anymore.
 
Our 2 are opposites.
Rex gets so excited about floor then the minute you let him out he finds a comfy spot and snoozes (unless you go near the kitchen/fridge)
Gizmo however once he figures out where all hides/tunnels/etc are will zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom, take a big nap then zoom a little more.
Guess it just depends on their personalities.
 
My piggies secretly drink Red Bull when I'm not looking, I'm sure of it. Whatever time I get up in the morning they are racing around. They are usually doing turbo charged laps of the cage, sofa or whatever they are on until around 11am then finally zonk out till around 4pm. Before zooming back into training for, presumably, the London Marathon. I don't think they slow down again until 11am the next day but might catch a few winks in the night x

(I actually get exhausted just watching them. The fact I am often used as a human bouncy castle doesn't help! )
 
On the whole, you could say, of my herd, that the two youngest girls are the most lively - if it were not for my boy Clyde! He will be five years old on July 1st and he often does zoomies around his floor! The other 5 girls range from 1.5 years to 4.5 years and are mainly sedentary, spending their days eating, sleeping and pooping!
 
Well my 2 sows, guess thier names :lol!: are coming up to be a year olld even though Poppy is tiny! They are very active in thier cage running about, jumping on and off ... The afternoon though is thier siesta time!:)
In floor time they run over to the nearest Hidey hole and don't move! And in the run they knock over the Hidey holes :gp:and then sleep in then code area of thier run, I have a triangular one like this one :
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/general-chitchat/guinea-pig-heaven_10959.html
I watch them lying on thier bellies so cute and fluffy!:love::drool:
My piggys are very active but I suppose they will get less active as they grow older.
 
mine are also quite lazy, Yuri spends most of his time in his hay loft and rarely bothers about coming out if the cage is open. George is constantly up and down his ramp, always wheeling if one of us walks by to see if we have food but if we haven't he's back upstairs to sleep. If I open his cage he will wander in and out mainly to wander next to yuris side to rumble through the bars to wind him up :)
 
Cokes isn't lazy, but because she's so high strung & anxious she prefers to hide in her houses all day eating hay but she runs about when shes out and zooms around her cage when she's restless....but Lunas just a lazy big blob lady who even when she's out just falls asleep on my chest straight away and wee's on me. I had her on my lap earlier and she PEED MY PANTS. I had to change my pants and trousers because SOMEONE ELSE PEED MY PANTS FOR ME! hahaha
 
These are my free range piggies, taking advantage of their freedom by having a nap under my kitchen chairs! Too lazy to do anything, except wheek for food. When they think there may be vegetables around they become very active!
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My three are very lazy. They wheek for food and are suddenly active when they hear the fridge but that's about all.

They have free roam of the hallway at floor time and will run to the front door and back once. The rest of the time is spent like the gorgeous piggies above :agr:
 
Trikoemela said:
These are my free range piggies, taking advantage of their freedom by having a nap under my kitchen chairs! Too lazy to do anything, except wheek for food. When they think there may be vegetables around they become very active!
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Love this photo. My two are usually found under the radiator in the hall :)
 
I have a really active guinea, he is absolutely hilarious! I very rarely see him laying down he is always running around the cage and looking and listening to what is going on in the house, hes a very suspicious boy! When he is on the floor he charges round and round our dining room table it is so funny to watch :D
 
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