is it OCD or do you just love your piggies?

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Hi

well at the moment ive put my piggies outside in their hutch and runs.. and just something I would like to know if any other people feel this way or its just my OCD behaviour..lol

but I don't like other people (only my O/H) touching/feeding my animals without my consent..

I have to be outside/with them just to be sure that my O/H is "ok" with feeding them grass or if he wants to hold one..

but...

I was at work one day and my neice,sister and her O/H were round and sitting outside with my mum in the garden and my mum told me that my neice (shes 17yrs old) got one of my piggies out and was holding her :{ well i was fuming when i found out like "she has no right to hold my pets or feed them grass" i know piggies love grass but they are my babies and I like to know how much or what they are eating.. and lastly i wouldnt want anyone helping themselves by handling them (or even stroking them) Ok, THAT may sound weird.. but i feel i may be a little obsessed by it all.. i don't like people touching my things, especially my pets! mallethead

If my O/H goes outside i have to follow him and check what he's doing just to be sure.. but he only ever feeds them anyway..

am I silly, or do other people have weird querks!? rolleyes

Esther x
 
haha i dont blame you, i feel the same way. the only people that i trust with my pigs include OH, the vet, and obviously me. we spend a lot of time looking out for their best interests, and anybody could accidentally do something to endanger them. i feel like they are on the delicate side!
 
I got a little hutch for outside for reggie for my birthday and hubby and I are so protective of him, we dont like to leave him out all day or if we are not at home, he only goes out in the hutch when we are home and enjoying time in the garden, hubby loves having him in the house :) x
 
That is too funny that you mentioned this. I got my piggie in March and I will not let anyone hold him, I don't even trust my husband to keep an eye on him if he's out of the cage while I'm cleaning it. I just put him in his travel cage. I want him safe and sound and for some reason I am the only one allowed to play with him and hold him lol I love the little buy! Took him with me to my mom's last month and she was holding him and walking around with him and I followed her EVERYWHERE she went and watched very closely how he was responding to her.
 
Haha!
I personally know I do have OCD, not that you posted this, I guess it's ironic! I don't know if mine's love for pigs or well, OCD!
Maybe it's a mix of both for the goodness of cavies. :(|)
 
I must admit I would feel the same. I dont mind others holding them if I'm there but my piggys are my babies and my responsibility so I would feel really put out if I thought someone was handling / feeding them without me being there or at least knowing about it beforehand.

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I don't really like other people to hold them, because I'm afraid they might drop them! I'm always like "be careful, they're very slippery/wriggly" and I watch them carefully til they're back on solid ground :)) I wouldn't mind someone going out to their run and picking them up (if it was just about a foot off the ground or they were on their lap or something) but I don't like them picking them up high, cos they're not used to holding them and they mightn't be as careful as me. I've even come close to dropping them before, it could easily happen.

And I don't really mind if someone else feeds them. My dad is always giving them grass or dandelions when he weeds the garden and I'm always like "are you sure there were no buttercups or ragwort or anything?" and he just laughs now cos he is careful. He always jokes now, cos I'm always saying not to put anything with raisins to the dogs, cos they're poisonous to them, so he's always like "oh I just gave them raisins, chocolate and buttercups" if I ask what he gave them :)) Sometimes he tries to give them a handful of grass cuttings, but they won't even eat them (good piggies) so I told him not to bother (it worries me anyway) rolleyes And sometimes if he's making apple sauce he gives me the bowl of peelings and says there aren't any pips, but I always have to check and sometimes there is one or two, he doesn't think it's a big deal and rolls his eyes at me for checking! If I'm out then sometimes my brother will feed them but he just pours looooads of food on the floor of their runs and if it rains it goes all soggy! :)) But he's good to do it. :)

And this is kinda off topic but sometimes people try to give the dogs things like stale cake or apple pie, and I throw it away and they don't understand why I won't feed it to the dogs!

And I get kinda weird if there are strangers around, and they're anywhere near my pets when I'm not watching!

I'm not too scared, but I worry about them a little. So I think it's kinda normal to be worried a bit and be a bit protective of them :)
 
I'm not alone xx>>>

We just love our wheekers and probably do have "piggy OCD".

I'm paranoid about people doing anything with mine,even prep the food if I'm going away for a few days, I.e. Quantities in containers ready for each day so they get the right amount etc.

It's all relative!
 
My Piggy rules are "If I'm not here, you can look but don't touch!"

My niece is only about a year and a half old and although she's lovely and very polite (She always says "Hello!" to my boys when she see's them :)) I think she finds them rude for not replying.)

but I felt a little...Unwell...When I heard that my brother had brought her over and let her into the piggies room.
She's just so young and sometimes she leans over the cage and it's just not strong enough to take someone putting that much weight on it, I used everything to strengthen the sides with the hayloft, so the other sides aren't quite so strong.
It just made me worry and then with Freddie, my Gerbil in the same room, I was just a bit terrified, his cage is on the floor, so it's perfect height for my niece to cause trouble!

I just felt that she was a bit too young to be let in that room without me being there...Even though my brother was around.

I just...I really like to be there when it's someone who doesn't really understand. One of my brothers is a fellow slave...So I have no issues with him doing whatever when he comes over. He even looks after my boys for 2 weeks when I go on holiday every year. That's how much I trust him.

But people who make "Oh, it's cruel to keep them inside, really." comments...Are people I shove out the door pretty darn fast. I wouldn't trust them around my boys without me.
 
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I don't like people holding them or doing anything with them without me being there. The reason is because all the people I know in real life, don't know anything about Guinea pigs. It's just a natural occurrence to feel protective over something that you love and care about.
 
only me and OH can touch my piggies, but i always feed them, if other people want to hold them i just say oh there a bit nippy they might take a chunk out of your hand :)) i know i shouldn't say that but i'm very protective of my little babies :red :p
 
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