How do you catch yours?

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I was just wondering how you guys go about picking up / catching your piggies?

Obviously i have only had Walter a few weeks and William a few days so they are still very much settling in. Walter when he was on his own was really easy to steer into a corner and stroke and once calm i could pick him up and cuddle him. Since William has arrived Walter avoids, with lightening speed, any advances from me to scoop him up - even though i tell him exercise in the run and veggies are waiting for him lol! William being really new dashes off around the cage as soon as i go near it. Yesterday i resigned myself to letting them walk into the carry case and then picking them up out of it for a cuddle and check over before putting them in the cage / run.

I am just conscious of stressing them out by "chasing" them about the cage trying to pick them up - as they are still new and i need to earn their trust. Would getting them walking into the case be the better way to go for the moment?
 
i always put my hand in front of their face first, i hate chasing and chasing round their home its horrible x
 
My sitting room isn't that big so they either sit at one end or the other, I sit down on the floor and they tend to squish themselves up into a corner and I then pick them.

Also if you say the same thing to them every time you're going to pick them up and put them away, they'll gradually catch on what's happening, a bit like if you say "Dinnertime" and they start squeaking.

I took awhile to pick them up the other day and my mum went "Oh get out of the way I'll do it" I then watched her chasing one of them round and round the room. :))
 
heehee, practise makes perfect! and for such little fattys, piggys can't half shift it when they want to! x
 
Misty is soo funny to catch - I show her my hand in front and she backs away - but my other hand is behind her! Just scoop her up and we are away! She knows the routine now and doesn't mind. Rogue and Storm were harder to catch - but if I did the same thing each time they got the idea. They always had cuddles and treats after being picked up so that helped!
 
Oops, I just posted this on Candyfloss's link by mistake, just bumped an old thread! :{

Brilliant video!

We've taught our boys when they are having floor time that when we bring their tube and tap on the top of it they come running into it and I lift them and put them back in their cage.

For some reason when we are trying to bring them in from their outside run the same rule doesn't apply with them and we have real fun and games trying to get them out of there, strange piglets!
 
I do what most other people seem to do.....hand cupped in front of face, preferably in a corner of the cage/room, then scoop up from behind.

When my piggies were little and more timid, I used to try to make catching as stress-free as possible by picking them up in a pigloo or a box, but they're past that stage now.

In fact, one of my big lads, Squeak, has a 'catching place' in the cage......he toddles off there and waits until I pick him up, but he's a pain to catch anywhere else in the cage.....he's a very special boy!

Tracey
 
Although I have had Peronel for four and a half years she will still run away when I want to catch her! I tend to guide her into a bed as it is easier to pick up. Once I have her in my arms she is very happy so I do not know why she has to give me the run around!
 
Most of the time Rod was pretty cool with being picked up, I would put my hand in front of him and he would just step into it :)

Maybe its because he knew that most of the time that meant cuddles with mummy :)

Otherwise, I would tempt him into his cosie then just pick him up, much like Candyfloss does


He was such a good boy :(
 
My pair are free range and very tame but always used to find it hard to catch them when they lived in a cage.

Now as soon as I go on the room they come over and I can just pick them up :)) good piggies.
 
Thanks everyone! Tried a sleep sack earlier but that proved a little tricky! think i shall try a cuddle cup bed! :)
 
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