Humans are so hard to train!

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Princess Dustmop

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Sigh ... I really thought I was getting somewhere, but nope! These humans are difficult to train. And at least one of them is a thief!

I've been working very hard on training the humans to feed me properly. Like really hard! They seem to understand a couple things, but they're totally hopeless with other things.
I had a small success the other day when I managed to get two types of hay out of one of them ... she doled timothy hay, and I gave her my cutest "okay, but ..." look and she gave me orchard grass, too!
The misbehavior really started last weigh in ... one human took me out and put me in the clear bucket thingy, and when I got back in my cage, my mini mat was missing! Missing! It was one of the nice squishy purple ones, and it was GONE! I got my cage cleaned a couple hours later and got a mini mat again, but it was gone for hours! That's almost forever! Worse, since then I'm certain that they're not giving me my due pellets. They seem to still be emptying my measuring cup same as Lexa's and she says the pellets seem normal, but I'm sure it's less! What if they're stealing my pellets, too!? Any advice on retraining? I tried knocking extra pellets into my bowl when they poured from my scoop, but it just meant I got fewer the next pour, so that doesn't work ...

Yours Hungrily,
Latte the Caffeinated Piggy
 
Poor Latte,
missing your mini matt for hours! :yikes: And it probably was nice and cozy and smelling great when it was taken from you ... and all clean and dry and smelling of nothing nice when you got it back.
I'm sure the One and Only Thea (@Betsy) will have good advice for you.
I always go for the really cute and starving look, wheeking really loud and just accidentally nipping the slave's hand.
Uuups, my mistake! :whistle:
Yours innocently, Tessy
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Dear Latte
We sympathise with you.
Training hoomans is hard work.
They tell us it’s good for us to have a healthy diet so we get hardly ant pellets and we never get yummy apple or carrot.
Yet, does the slave eat as healthily?
No she does not.
We - Naomi and Ruth - like to stand up at the bars in the Hope we will get extra as slave tries to stop us climbing out.

We wish you, and all fellow piggies well, in slave training efforts.

Love from Priscilla, Micah, Naomi and Ruth
 
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Poor Latte,
missing your mini matt for hours! :yikes: And it probably was nice and cozy and smelling great when it was taken from you ... and all clean and dry and smelling of nothing nice when you got it back.
I'm sure the One and Only Thea (@Betsy) will have good advice for you.
I always go for the really cute and starving look, wheeking really loud and just accidentally nipping the slave's hand.
Uuups, my mistake! :whistle:
Yours innocently, Tessy
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Dear Latte

I am on my holidays atm and Aunty Lilli doesn't know my proper job. Lexi and I are keeping Schtum. Aunty Lilli is part of something called "a rescoo" so I'm worried that she'll find out my job is to teach other piggies how to train their Slaves better. I'll help you on my return home.

Yours keeping very quiet

The One and Only Thea
Shop Steward
 
We all sympathise with you Latte, our slave is nothing but a meddler. We get our cage smelling nice and along she comes with the nasty smelling clean bedding and whips away our cuddle cups moaning that they are all “hairy” what’s a pig suppose to do? … It’s time she learnt we like smelly hairy bedding!

Hector, Kiki, Posh and Ginger

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I think we made a training break through!

The humans have these scoops they use for our pellets. They had been pouring from them over the course of the day, but it wasn't even a snack! It was like nothing! So frustrating!
Anyways, we were trying everything to correct them nicely. We were chewing on the bars and begging the best we could. I don't think the humans liked the bar chewing, but goodness were they being dense! In terms of training, Lexa was going with the cute and sweet approach. You know, look excitedly at the bowl, lift up onto back feet slightly when pellets begin to pour, and look encouragingly cute, trying to will the humans to pour a bigger serving. I went with a more direct approach. I nosed at the cup, trying to get them to pour more at a time, and looked disappointed with offerings.

Well, a couple weeks ago, there was this other human that stayed in our room. Well, actually Lexa had to move for the couple days :soz: Apparently this other human needed to use the "desk" for "work," though it's quite clearly supposed to hold a guinea pig cage.:nod: (Poor Lexa ended up in the next room over on something called a "folding table" ... must be for folding guinea pig mats or something.) I stayed put and graciously shared my room. She seemed nice, even if she did talk to some screen thing ... it talked, too. I still wasn't letting her pet me, though. Nuh-uh! Oh yeah, the new human did do one mean thing ... she had the audacity to eat pepper strips while sitting next to me. Those should have been mine, and she ate them! I mean, I got some, but but but I don't wanna share the bag of peppers! And eating them in front of me!😭
The normal humans explained our food cups to the new human. Well, they tried to ... they said what they had been doing: cups refilled once a day (one of the normal humans was doing this step), no real structure or specific quantities/timing for how we get the pellets. :blink: Then one of the normal humans poured a few pellets in my bowl. And the new human commented on how little it was! YES! I've been trying to tell them that for weeks!
Well, other human left to ... where ever ... Lexa came back to our room :D, and the normal humans continued their foolishness with our pellets.:doh:
I doubled down on my bar chewing. I expressed my frustration at every chance. I basically just begged all the time for pellets. And ... They decided to set a pellet schedule. :))

Now we're getting half our pellets at each of two servings. The timing of the second serving seems to drift some, but that's fine. We're actually getting actual servings! I mean, the humans don't just eat a crumb of a cookie or half of a crisp at a time! Why were they giving us just a few pellets at a time. We've found a happy amount.:drool:
We still get multiple servings but they're actually servings not bits! :yahoo:

It's possible there is hope for these silly creatures.
 
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