official how to train your human guide

[Smores_n_choco]

Hello all, this is smores and choco reporting in. We last were on here to complain about how the human was treating us...(we are not pleased thread)...and since we got so much support in our endeavours to train our human...we thought we'd make an official "how to train your human" guide. We would be very pleased if anyone who chooses to can pipe in thier hints and advice...and so that all the new piggys being rescued,adopted, bought or aquired can readily get their humans trained straight away. Hope you all speak up..as this is a team effort here!
Kindest regards,
Smore n choco (gus said no comment so he's being a weenie)

Chapter one: FOOD
Some humans dish out loads of yums, and dont care that we are too chubby , and then there are ones like our human that actually listens to the vet when he says ..cut back. we've found a slight advantage to this however. As our woman human feeds us...we hover it down...leave absolutely no evidence that we've eaten...and so the man human listens to our pitiful "we are starving to death wheeks" and pleas...and feeds us again. HA .....
Also just wheeking isnt enough. you have to stand up on your bars....stick your face as far thru the bars as you can get...stare a hole in the human and wheek madly and look as pitiful as you can. We also find some bar chewing will prompt one of the humans to feed us something.

We have another hint. If you want the human to fork over your favorite treat and not all that other nonsense...simply take it from her...and then throw your head about flinging it in all directions...then repeat the face at bars act.
eventually the human will give in and give you the favorite (in our case its apple).
Also a good trick to annoy the human (cause come on thats so fun to annoy them)...eat something as if its going to run away one day, and completely disregard it the next day. So what if the human went out of her way to go to the store and get a load of it....she can just get over it. (but secreatly when shes not looking you can take a bite or two.

another favorite is pull all the hay from the hay rack..and wee and poo all over it ...making human have to provide more. rinse , lather and repeat. You ought to see our human after she sweeps us clean (so annoying at that she is)...and we pull all our hay out and wee and poo the bejesus out of it.

we have loads more tips and hints but we'll wait to see what all you have to say first. thanks loads..


love ,
smores n choco

 

[piggyfan]

Lol so funny!|)

 

[klee]

Esme: I like to poke my head out of my bedroom where I'm chilling to watch for the hoomans-just a little bit so she can't see me but I can see her.

When she starts walking over she makes these 'wheeking' noises- well she thinks it sound like wheeking. We haven't told her yet but she looks very silly.
She likes to rattle our food bags around- so I sit there at the bars and do the death stare, if she dosen't hand the food over fast enough I find it helps to chew the bars .

What you need to do is make the human think you're cute! When she puts in the dry food make a big fuss and dive on it before it touches the floor. This in my experience leads to faster handing over of the veggies.

Ruby: A little bit of licking makes you seem cute and more likely to get the veggies.

Tia: If you steal from your friends mouth make sure that the human sees, sometimes she will give more food.

Rosie: If you snooze longer and the others eat your share- make sure you kick up a fuss you may get handfed your favourites!

x

 

[Strawberries]

Hi, my name is Honey Bee. I really find this thread interesting. You piggies are so courageous!

I don't want to try any of those things! I am too afraid the hooman is going to EAT me! I know I've lived with her for over 5 months, but sometimes she looks directly at me...and that scares me! so I have to hide. And sometimes she walks by the cage, and that scares me, and I have to hide. And sometimes she bends down and puts her face next to the cage and makes some noises and that scares me, so I have to hide. Sometimes, she brings food and hay, and that makes me jump in fright and run into my pigloo. She also sweeps up my mess, and that really scares me! Then I have to try and bury myself under the cage liner!

the only time I can get myself to be brave is after a long nights sleep, when she first comes into the room she always gives me a vit C treat. I love those! I poke my head out of my pigloo and really slowly take it from her hand, being very careful that I am in position to run away fast, sort of low to the ground and stealthy...then it takes me all day to recover from the effort!

My sister is like you all...but not me. I think one day you may regret not staying in your pigloo, what if they wake up one day and want to eat you? Or even worse, touch you or pick you up? It totally isn't worth it...my advice is to keep your head down!

 

[scpiggy]

Sherbert here, we have sadly not got our human mummy well trained. We wheak at her and put our paws up on the bars sticking our cute little faces at her but she IGNORES us! Tells us we've already been fed and to stop being greedy. Even when we remove all the evidence of having veggies she has a good memory.
Luckily we have a back up human. |) Our human grandad is much easier to fool. We just have to wheak at him and he pops out to the garden to pick us grass and dandilions, our favourites!

 

[Strawberries]

Penny here.

My sister Honey Bee is a total recluse and a big grouch, don't listen to her. She doesn't know how to have fun AT ALL! She is always bossing me around and kicking me out of my favorite comfy spots. She really needs to chill out. I don't think she is the smartest pig in the cage, that's for sure!

Here is a good trick...whenever they take you out of the cage, like when they want to hold you or trim your nails, be a total spaz unless there is a steady and continuous flow of food being stuffed in your mouth!

My crazy sister just sits there frozen, not eating or moving when they hold her or cut her nails, even though there is food being held RIGHT UP TO HER MOUTH!

Ridiculous fool she is! I'm telling you, wave your head around, head butt them, squirm, and fling your legs about frantically whenever they pick you up or try to cuddle you and food will immediately be placed directly in your mouth! And if it stops for even an instant, try to get away fast by moving all your legs and your head at once, kind of like a popcorn. It works I know...I always get more food than my sister when I'm out of the cage!

Speaking of which, any tips on getting them not to touch you or get in your personal space. It kind of feels like a violation of my privacy really when they touch my head. I always give her the 'look' while she is doing it...trying to tell her that it really is quite rude and kind of gross that she would get her human smells on me, but she doesn't get it. I have to work on that some more. I mean, why on earth do they want to PET me? Those humans are strange!

Or any tips on breaking out from this stupid cage? I really think I would prefer running all around the house.

 

[klee]

Esme: Forgot to add before, if the human is sat watching you and she has fruit, make a point of sniffing the air and wheeking as loudly as you can. Rosie, the grandmummy piggy tries her is a hardest to wheek but it isn't very loud- It is a benefit to have a piggie like this in your arsenal. It gets you lots of brownie points in the foodstakes and almost guarantees you a piece of fruit x

 

[ZaraPiggie6]

King David here, I find siting on top of my house with my frOnt legs in my food bowl weeking in a tone that sounds like swearing and giving judgemental looks usually makes my slave give in. She often calls me greedy chops but I have no idea what this means?! If that fails I get all my legs out and give her my best sad eyes, that ones a winner!

 

[Posiesparkles]

Hi, I'm Misty and after living with my hoomans for over 5 years I think I have them where I want them -
- whenever you hear the fridge door opening or a bag rustling, start wheeking very loudly - my mummy seems to feel mean if I wheek and then get nothing
- drag all your food offered into a hidey house and a non observant hooman like my daddy then thinks you haven't been fed
- breaking a tooth seems extreme but after something happened to mine recently mummy has been feeding me all different kinds of things to see what my poorly tooth could cope with

When my sister Storm (RIP) was still with us, she used to bang the metal hayrack in the night when we slept in the hooman's bedroom - mummy would sloowly come over (with eyes shut it seemed) and put some more hay and veggies in Now I sleep in their living room, the spoil sports

x

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Esme: I like to poke my head out of my bedroom where I'm chilling to watch for the hoomans-just a little bit so she can't see me but I can see her.

When she starts walking over she makes these 'wheeking' noises- well she thinks it sound like wheeking. We haven't told her yet but she looks very silly.
She likes to rattle our food bags around- so I sit there at the bars and do the death stare, if she dosen't hand the food over fast enough I find it helps to chew the bars .
[******[/B]oh dear..our human does that too...who teaches them to be so daft. I mean really just shut your lips and fork over the goodies..we will do the wheeking ourself's. but we do humor the human and wheek back sometimes...perhaps we shouldnt do that...maybe we should also put do's and donts on this list. as we found that when we play with our water bottle as if its a toy..the human takes it away for 30 mins. really....its SUPPOSED to be played with we say. opps...sorry we went down a wabbit trail then (no offense meant to all the buns out there).and yes bar chewing is definatly a way to get the humans attention!



What you need to do is make the human think you're cute! When she puts in the dry food make a big fuss and dive on it before it touches the floor. This in my experience leads to faster handing over of the veggies.

*******you are a right smart piggy...we've got the cute part down.. we will be sure to take note of this big fuss and diving onto it part. definatly will enjoy the veggies coming faster...heck at this point at all..all we got this morning was a lousy half cup of lettice one cucumber slice each and a half inch of a bell pepper. I mean...really woman...opps..there we go again. sorry.00

Ruby: A little bit of licking makes you seem cute and more likely to get the veggies.


*****Oh my ......yes yes..we've learned this already. thank you so much for adding it to the list. However most of the licking comes from me (choco) as smores doesnt even liked to be picked up ..so thus if he licks..its usually followed by a nip because we want back into our home thank you. I think he's just a wuss...but shhhhhh dont tell him that. I mean..he is my house mate so I'd better be nice.

Tia: If you steal from your friends mouth make sure that the human sees, sometimes she will give more food.

*****Our human dosent work that way. Well mabey the man human. but the woman human (we dont call her mum like gus does)... well she always gives more to the one it was stolen from..and not the other way. perhaps you could come over and train our human for us?

Rosie: If you snooze longer and the others eat your share- make sure you kick up a fuss you may get handfed your favourites!

x

*****Thank you so much for your entry into the guide. we'll get typing on it right away. (if we can sneak to the laptop....she's been keeping us away since we took a nice little wee right next to the keyboard. serves her right for typing on the floor.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Hi, my name is Honey Bee. I really find this thread interesting. You piggies are so courageous!

I don't want to try any of those things! I am too afraid the hooman is going to EAT me! I know I've lived with her for over 5 months, but sometimes she looks directly at me...and that scares me! so I have to hide. And sometimes she walks by the cage, and that scares me, and I have to hide. And sometimes she bends down and puts her face next to the cage and makes some noises and that scares me, so I have to hide. Sometimes, she brings food and hay, and that makes me jump in fright and run into my pigloo. She also sweeps up my mess, and that really scares me! Then I have to try and bury myself under the cage liner!
******dearest honey bee(cute name by the way) whee is sorry your still frightened of the humans. It took us a little while to. But trust me when I say..if you just get over your fright and let the human touch you (although yes it can be annoying sometimes)...you'll find they really do mean us no harm..and they will do something we as piggys like "fork over the food". especially if you hide and snuggle down in a sac....you'll find most humans will put a yummy snack in there for you to nibble on ...while your getting over being scared. I do hope you manage this soon, and I'm positive you'll be confident and less scared..and on here typing your own tricks in no time. lots of hugs and kisses....

the only time I can get myself to be brave is after a long nights sleep, when she first comes into the room she always gives me a vit C treat. I love those! I poke my head out of my pigloo and really slowly take it from her hand, being very careful that I am in position to run away fast, sort of low to the ground and stealthy...then it takes me all day to recover from the effort!

My sister is like you all...but not me. I think one day you may regret not staying in your pigloo, what if they wake up one day and want to eat you? Or even worse, touch you or pick you up? It totally isn't worth it...my advice is to keep your head down!

**** oh dear...my head down...certianly not. But i do understand how you feel...and as to eating us...hmmmm. perhaps thats why they keep fattening us up. (well except our human..she starves us..really i promise..the vet is lying we are NOT overweight).

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Sherbert here, we have sadly not got our human mummy well trained. We wheak at her and put our paws up on the bars sticking our cute little faces at her but she IGNORES us! Tells us we've already been fed and to stop being greedy. Even when we remove all the evidence of having veggies she has a good memory.
Luckily we have a back up human. |) Our human grandad is much easier to fool. We just have to wheak at him and he pops out to the garden to pick us grass and dandilions, our favourites!

******two squeaks and a wheek for grandad...yay him! I'm sorryyour mummy hasnt a lousy memory as that helps very much...but we've found when our human is being mean ...if we lay down and wheek at the same time...she gives in more times than not. and as its aready been said..bar chewing helps loads! I hope your mummy bumps her head and forgets the greedy piggys that you are and give you loads more veggies. course I'm not sure what to tell you when she yanks out the scale..we've not mastered that one yet. perhaps someone else can contribute that part!

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Penny here.

My sister Honey Bee is a total recluse and a big grouch, don't listen to her. She doesn't know how to have fun AT ALL! She is always bossing me around and kicking me out of my favorite comfy spots. She really needs to chill out. I don't think she is the smartest pig in the cage, that's for sure!

Here is a good trick...whenever they take you out of the cage, like when they want to hold you or trim your nails, be a total spaz unless there is a steady and continuous flow of food being stuffed in your mouth!

My crazy sister just sits there frozen, not eating or moving when they hold her or cut her nails, even though there is food being held RIGHT UP TO HER MOUTH!

Ridiculous fool she is! I'm telling you, wave your head around, head butt them, squirm, and fling your legs about frantically whenever they pick you up or try to cuddle you and food will immediately be placed directly in your mouth! And if it stops for even an instant, try to get away fast by moving all your legs and your head at once, kind of like a popcorn. It works I know...I always get more food than my sister when I'm out of the cage!

Speaking of which, any tips on getting them not to touch you or get in your personal space. It kind of feels like a violation of my privacy really when they touch my head. I always give her the 'look' while she is doing it...trying to tell her that it really is quite rude and kind of gross that she would get her human smells on me, but she doesn't get it. I have to work on that some more. I mean, why on earth do they want to PET me? Those humans are strange!

Or any tips on breaking out from this stupid cage? I really think I would prefer running all around the house.

Well we've not mastered the art of getting the human to not touch us...she breaks out the flipping brush and brushes us once a day...I(smores) gets a haircut around my bum and so does gus...we've tried to tell her we look like a two year old fell into the sissor drawer...but she dosent listen. we do kick up a giant fit and act as if we are dying ...truly dying when she goes to clipping the nails, or checking the bum bits (dosent she know that is a private part...geesh)... We have managed to stop her from bathing us in the sink...as I (smores) jumped out of the sink because she wasnt expecting it and she happened to cacth my wet soapy self just before I hit the floor...scared her right good. we've not had a bath in a month. |)
Hmmm.breaking out of the cage...we dont dare do that...you see our humans are morons and have five dogs. Yes..you read that right. FIVE...and they are all dachunds. I mean..hello they are bred to eat things like us...really.
so truthfully we like our cage..just fine. but then if the dogs were outside where they belong in our opinion...we'd be very glad to know how to break free of the cage.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Esme: Forgot to add before, if the human is sat watching you and she has fruit, make a point of sniffing the air and wheeking as loudly as you can. Rosie, the grandmummy piggy tries her is a hardest to wheek but it isn't very loud- It is a benefit to have a piggie like this in your arsenal. It gets you lots of brownie points in the foodstakes and almost guarantees you a piece of fruit x

*****
oh yes the sniffing thing is definatly one to hold on to. we dont have a grandmummy quiet piggy...wonder if we can convince the human to go fetch us one..and if thats going to get us to have more fruit forked over...we are all for that. Especially if its banana or strawberrys..or hey BOTH at the same time. YUM. although truthfully apple is our favorite. Thanks for the advice.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

King David here, I find siting on top of my house with my frOnt legs in my food bowl weeking in a tone that sounds like swearing and giving judgemental looks usually makes my slave give in. She often calls me greedy chops but I have no idea what this means?! If that fails I get all my legs out and give her my best sad eyes, that ones a winner!

So noted king david...sounds delightfully clever of you! could you add a picture of you doing this very thing...so folks will have a model of what it looks like. After all we dont want it to go wrong and make the human think something is wrong with us worthy of a vet trip. the vet pokes and prods and has this unique habbit of prying our mouth open to check our toofies. hey..if we's eating..the toofys are fine ...stupid human. although...we do find the ladys that work there give us cuddles and talk to us as if we are special. well..we is special ...so there.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Hi, I'm Misty and after living with my hoomans for over 5 years I think I have them where I want them -
- whenever you hear the fridge door opening or a bag rustling, start wheeking very loudly - my mummy seems to feel mean if I wheek and then get nothing
- drag all your food offered into a hidey house and a non observant hooman like my daddy then thinks you haven't been fed
- breaking a tooth seems extreme but after something happened to mine recently mummy has been feeding me all different kinds of things to see what my poorly tooth could cope with

When my sister Storm (RIP) was still with us, she used to bang the metal hayrack in the night when we slept in the hooman's bedroom - mummy would sloowly come over (with eyes shut it seemed) and put some more hay and veggies in Now I sleep in their living room, the spoil sports

x

*****oh you do have her well trained..good on you! banging the hayrack...putting that on our to do list. we have a hay ball that has a bell on it, and a toy that has a bell on it and we delight in ringing it like mad...but we've not thought to bang the hay rack yet. Cant wait to try that...thanks

 

[gpmomma]

Latte here! 5 minute guide to getting food. I find it helps to hide all the hay in the corner of the hay box then sit on it. Mommy doesn't see I am sitting on the hay so she gives us more. Then you go to the bowl and squeak as loud as you can. Then you will get kibble. Now you ignore the food you just got and run around the cage squeaking madly. Some cage bar biting might help. Now you have veggies.

 

[gpmomma]

Peanut here. Humans are scary! Big brother Latte is brave to let the humans snuggle him. He enjoys it! I take back what I said about big brother being brave, he is crazy! He just lets the human pet his chin. And he demands food from the humans! I would be terrified after I did that!

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Latte here! 5 minute guide to getting food. I find it helps to hide all the hay in the corner of the hay box then sit on it. Mommy doesn't see I am sitting on the hay so she gives us more. Then you go to the bowl and squeak as loud as you can. Then you will get kibble. Now you ignore the food you just got and run around the cage squeaking madly. Some cage bar biting might help. Now you have veggies.

*******oh thats a right clever trick . adding that onto the to do list too. we already pull out all our hay and pee and poo all over it. Now to know we can sit on it too...BONUS!

 

[Christofur]

Hello,

Thanks everyone for all the great ideas and tips. As I travel about a lot and meet lots of different hoomans its great to have different tactics to try out on them |)

Christofur, the travelling piggy

xx

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Hello,

Thanks everyone for all the great ideas and tips. As I travel about a lot and meet lots of different hoomans its great to have different tactics to try out on them |)

Christofur, the travelling piggy

xx

*****
Most welcome christofur. thank you for popping in ...I'm sure your guite busy with all the traveling you do. our human enjoys reading your journey as do we. perhaps you can pick up a few tricks to teach us in your next visit. bon vonage....keep in touch!

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Peanut here. Humans are scary! Big brother Latte is brave to let the humans snuggle him. He enjoys it! I take back what I said about big brother being brave, he is crazy! He just lets the human pet his chin. And he demands food from the humans! I would be terrified after I did that!

****yes the humans can be right scary at first. We hate when the human stands over us. We much perfer when she keeps her head lower than our cage...and if she snuggles us inside a fleeceey or something. Although gus is right strange ...he dosent like to LIVE with other piggys (though we do play together at times)...but he's not a snugglier...he hops up onto the human shoulders and watches tv. the human seems to enjoy that but she's daft if she thinks we are going to try that. no way jose.
We do demand our food tho....so that part isnt scary for us. I'm sure you'lll get over that fright soon enough..and you'll be joining in with all of us wheeking like mad and putting a poor pitiful me, look I'm starving routine to whip that human into shape!

 

[Pink Jumper]

Floss - When I am feeling a little peckish, as soon as my human moves her arm or turns her head, I jump onto my hidey house as she knows this is where I wait when food is coming. She doesn't really give in much...but then if she stands up I throw a couple of wheeks in. This usually does the trick and out comes a piece of lettuce, my favourite! Although, this does not always work because she says she doesnt want us to have too much veggies and get fat. Too much veggies, this confuses me.

Jewel - Floss always thinks she does all the hard work by jumping on top of our hidey house, but really I think I do the best job as I like to stretch up the bars as far as I can while wheeking...louder than Floss by the way... to get our human's attention.

Floss - Personally I think I do the loudest wheeks. Just saying.

Jewel - Come on Floss, we never fight or argue, so lets not start now.

Floss - Occasionally human likes to join in with our wheeking. She thinks she knows what she is talking about, but she just doesn't!

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Floss - When I am feeling a little peckish, as soon as my human moves her arm or turns her head, I jump onto my hidey house as she knows this is where I wait when food is coming. She doesn't really give in much...but then if she stands up I throw a couple of wheeks in. This usually does the trick and out comes a piece of lettuce, my favourite! Although, this does not always work because she says she doesnt want us to have too much veggies and get fat. Too much veggies, this confuses me.

Jewel - Floss always thinks she does all the hard work by jumping on top of our hidey house, but really I think I do the best job as I like to stretch up the bars as far as I can while wheeking...louder than Floss by the way... to get our human's attention.

Floss - Personally I think I do the loudest wheeks. Just saying.

Jewel - Come on Floss, we never fight or argue, so lets not start now.

Floss - Occasionally human likes to join in with our wheeking. She thinks she knows what she is talking about, but she just doesn't!

I dont understand "too many" veggies either. strange concept...but our stupid human listens to the vet for some reason. I mean how can he tell we's not starving . His scale LIES i tell you. Ah jewel it is hard climbing up onto the hidey house, but I agree with you strecthing up the bars and wheeking louder is most charming. I think it works better on the human too. but SHHHH dont tell floss...i dont want to hurt her feelings.
and yes...what is with the human wheeking at us (well they arent wheeking...they are just making funny and daft noises...but we humor them dont we).
thanks for popping in ladies.

 

[jkwright35]

Hello, Jeff here. I have to say, my slave is quite well trained when it comes to food, but I can't seem to train her to LEAVE MY CAGE ALONE. I spend ages getting it to smell just right, and making sure there are plenty of poos everywhere, and then she comes along and SWEEPS THEM ALL UP and CHANGES THE FLEECE!

I have tried to stop this by standing in the way and refusing to move, standing in the dustpan, eating the brush, and even once I waited until she had just finished and stood on the dustpan handle! (This was quite successful as I got all my poos back, but she just started sweeping all over again, though she was a bit cross.)

If anyone has any ideas about what to do, I would love to hear them.

Yours, frustrated, Jeff.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Hello, Jeff here. I have to say, my slave is quite well trained when it comes to food, but I can't seem to train her to LEAVE MY CAGE ALONE. I spend ages getting it to smell just right, and making sure there are plenty of poos everywhere, and then she comes along and SWEEPS THEM ALL UP and CHANGES THE FLEECE!

I have tried to stop this by standing in the way and refusing to move, standing in the dustpan, eating the brush, and even once I waited until she had just finished and stood on the dustpan handle! (This was quite successful as I got all my poos back, but she just started sweeping all over again, though she was a bit cross.)

If anyone has any ideas about what to do, I would love to hear them.

Yours, frustrated, Jeff.

*****hi jeff. Oh you bring up a good topic. Our human is completely mad on the cleaning up . we work so hard to poo in just the right places and she sweeps them all up, and it is so annoying. We've tried chasing the dustpan, standing in the dustpan, bitting the dustpan, nipping the hand holding the dustpan, jumping on top of the hand brush...grabbing the brush bristles and yank out of the humans hand. Now ..she gone way untrained and figured out how to plop us in the stupid cat carrier while she sweeps. At least your human hasnt figured that out. surely some of you have a solution to this problem..as we'd like to get that straighted out . She also puts things where SHE wants them. We work really hard to rearrange things to how WE like them...but she's a tough one. We've thought about trading her in, but then she did feed us a yummy rasberry the other day..so we may keep her.
Lots of luck jeff...if you hear of any solution or you make headway in the keep my cage messy campaign...do tell us!

 

[Glynis]

Hi guys, Velvet here........ what you do is lie on your side snoooooooozing and totally oblivious to what's happening.........Hooman FREAKS and i mean freaks out ....... no idea why.......... so you then get a little nose stroke (which me lurves) and then a treatie drool

Tis me Onyx, well at the moment i just get food stuffed in my face all the time.....i mean even if i don't want it! Mind you it's rather nice, tho i do wish i could have some of Velvet's leafies......SIGH

Oh Onyx you know it makes you have a pooey butt.......yeah yeah i know Velvet but sometimes the hooman let's me have just a teensy bit of leafie drool

Velvet and Onyx x

 

[Lilly]

Peanut Butter here. I do all the work while Hazelnut only shows up for the result because he's a very lazy piggy.

When I want my bowl replenished I poop in it and wheek really loud until a human comes. And one always comes because my wheek is so piercing it sounds like I am in great danger, or so they say. Hazelnut just lazes about with his silly legs out. But the minute the human lifts the bowls out (I don't think it's fair Hazelnut's bowl is going to be replenished too!) Hazelnut gets up and sits by the food spot waiting for the new bowl.

When I've had enough of floor time I wheek piercingly again while Hazelnut just lays quietly waiting for the cuddle cup transport. And this after I've already expended energy zooming around the tunnels while his lordship daintily waddles around on towels.

I see many of you have the same problem as me with the incessant poop sweeping our humans are so obsessed with. I've tried all the usual, biting the brush, tipping the dustpan over, head butting the human's hand, etc to no avail, while Hazelnut just lays where he is until the brush is right behind him. At that point he moves to a poop-free area and lays back down. If anyone figures out how to train the humans to stop with the daily (sometimes twice a day - sheesh!) poop pickups let me know.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Hi guys, Velvet here........ what you do is lie on your side snoooooooozing and totally oblivious to what's happening.........Hooman FREAKS and i mean freaks out ....... no idea why.......... so you then get a little nose stroke (which me lurves) and then a treatie drool

Tis me Onyx, well at the moment i just get food stuffed in my face all the time.....i mean even if i don't want it! Mind you it's rather nice, tho i do wish i could have some of Velvet's leafies......SIGH

Oh Onyx you know it makes you have a pooey butt.......yeah yeah i know Velvet but sometimes the hooman let's me have just a teensy bit of leafie drool

Velvet and Onyx x

Ello lovely ladies. Velvet and onyx: whee was sure you two would speak up. We"be done the play dead and totally freaked out our human...but treats didn't follow.....perhaps we did it wrong! I'd say your human is quite trained and all s Piggys should take note...non stop food in face is our goal...well done you cheeky lady's. As to pooey but we've not had that before ,but we wonder why humans make such a fuss on it. Thanks for the tips!

 

[Smores_n_choco]

Peanut Butter here. I do all the work while Hazelnut only shows up for the result because he's a very lazy piggy.

When I want my bowl replenished I poop in it and wheek really loud until a human comes. And one always comes because my wheek is so piercing it sounds like I am in great danger, or so they say. Hazelnut just lazes about with his silly legs out. But the minute the human lifts the bowls out (I don't think it's fair Hazelnut's bowl is going to be replenished too!) Hazelnut gets up and sits by the food spot waiting for the new bowl.

When I've had enough of floor time I wheek piercingly again while Hazelnut just lays quietly waiting for the cuddle cup transport. And this after I've already expended energy zooming around the tunnels while his lordship daintily waddles around on towels.

I see many of you have the same problem as me with the incessant poop sweeping our humans are so obsessed with. I've tried all the usual, biting the brush, tipping the dustpan over, head butting the human's hand, etc to no avail, while Hazelnut just lays where he is until the brush is right behind him. At that point he moves to a poop-free area and lays back down. If anyone figures out how to train the humans to stop with the daily (sometimes twice a day - sheesh!) poop pickups let me know.

Pb....I hate to break this to you but it sounds as if you are the one in training...by hazelnut. His highness makes you do all the work and should be ashamed...Dosent he know the human is the slave not his cage mate.
Oh the dreaded poo sweeping, we found a new trick to that while the humans went grocery shopping this evening. We made a giant tunnel under the rug and left poos in there then we hopped right back on top and proceeded to pull the innocent look. She won't know until she does the big clean out but least we get to hoard it a while longer. And just to shake things up a bit we refused to eat our favorite treat just to irritate her! Piggys 2 human 0 ...ta ta for now