Joys you just have to experience with piggies…..

Ruth1

Ruth1

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This wee pair have been with me now since last Saturday and they arrived terrified! I hardly saw them for two or three days, but every day now, as they grow in confidence and trust they are becoming more of a joy to care for, (poop and all!). Feel free to add your own joys to the ones I’m only learning …..

1. The sense of achievement when you can walk past them and they don’t scamper away wheeking in terror anymore.

2. The first day they have sussed out bag rustling (even dog poop bags) means veg and the wheeking and scurrying that ensues.

3. The ever loudening wheeking as veg are being chopped that gets you all flustered to WORK FASTER HOOMIN!

4. The sound of munching hay.

5. The beginning of zoomies and popcorns (I think maybe it’s time to think about introducing floor time 😳😳)

6. Seeing the trust slowly build and the challenge to see it grow even more.

7. The wee conversations, or arguments (I’m beginning to think that all tunnels/bedrooms should have doors attached so a ‘miffed’ piggy can slam it in protest!)

Precious little creatures 🥰
 
It’s such a joy as a piggy’s character begins to shine out and realise how well you are being trained. :D
They are so much more fun and so much more interesting twhen they are being themselves and not being pushed into our concept of a furry toy.
 
They are my alarm clock at 5.15 am
They greet me when I come home or enter the room, they tell me when it’s feeding time by wheeking the house down and chewing the bars until they get something, they help with the spot cleaning by inspecting the brush lol they characters my babies love them, toffee & coffee, pinky & Perky, Milo & stitch, ruby, Maisie & titch special piggies 🐷❤️
 
When I taught the current goblins hand signals. I know I know, but it was a genuine accident and to know they've taken to it as a good sign just makes me smile.

Bann also wheeked today. That doesn't happen often and my heart's just :wub:
 
Tigermoth said:
I had no idea how much character a little potato can have. We moved ours into the front room and their antics were way more interesting than the tv.
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I know! I love living with mine! One of them even sits in her tunnel and peeks round at me when I’m practising cello ! Who needs tele!?
 
Lorcan said:
When I taught the current goblins hand signals. I know I know, but it was a genuine accident and to know they've taken to it as a good sign just makes me smile.

Bann also wheeked today. That doesn't happen often and my heart's just :wub:
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What do they do Lorcan?
 
If I go in with food and there's no rustly bag noise to be had, they'll poke their head out of whatever bed they're in. I'll sit on the floor next to the cage, raise an arm and be like, Hey, there's food! It's that arm movement they watch for. Even from 6' away at the far end of the cage - they can't really see from that distance, but they've learned to recognise the movement.

It was entirely accidental. If I've got peppers and cucumber instead of a salad bag there's not really going to be any rustly bags because they're upstairs, so for a bit I kept having to try and convince them that yes, there IS food on the go. And inadvertently taught them the hand signals in the process. Makes mealtimes a bit less awkward, lol.

You might never litter train a guinea pig, but they're not stupid. Especially not when it comes to getting fed :))
 
We play Scrabble most evenings, the piggies know they will get fed when we finish playing. At first it was the tiles being tipped back in the bag that started them off. Now they understand the word won to mean food, you won, who won, I won - food, food, food! The two newbies were only here a few days before they started to join in with the wheeky chorus but that might just be because the other's were kicking off. :))
 
piggieminder said:
We play Scrabble most evenings, the piggies know they will get fed when we finish playing. At first it was the tiles being tipped back in the bag that started them off. Now they understand the word won to mean food, you won, who won, I won - food, food, food! The two newbies were only here a few days before they started to join in with the wheeky chorus but that might just be because the other's were kicking off. :))
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How many points for W H. E. E. K. ?!
 
I enjoy that mine know what time it is... if it's food time, they go crazy. If it's not, me walking by is not that exciting! I also love how effectively they know people apart. My son is a reliable feeder of the pigs and is most likely to show up with an unexpected vegetable- as a result they know his footsteps from anyone else's and get excited when they hear him in the kitchen in a way that they really don't for anyone else. I also really love the dynamic between different pairs of pigs we've had. They really have their own personalities and their own group dynamic.
 
Freela said:
I enjoy that mine know what time it is... if it's food time, they go crazy. If it's not, me walking by is not that exciting! I also love how effectively they know people apart. My son is a reliable feeder of the pigs and is most likely to show up with an unexpected vegetable- as a result they know his footsteps from anyone else's and get excited when they hear him in the kitchen in a way that they really don't for anyone else. I also really love the dynamic between different pairs of pigs we've had. They really have their own personalities and their own group dynamic.
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Fascinating wee animals!
 
Like @Freela mine used to be able to distinguish the sound of keys! If I stepped through the door, they’d start wheeking like mad. When my husband would walk in…not a peep! He felt there was some sort of discrimination going on 🤣🤣
 
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