Giulia
New Born Pup
Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum and I’ve signed up basically just for one reason.
I’ve got two piggies, Picasso who’s 2 years old and Dai who’s just 5 months old and is a rescue.
The cage I usually have them in is big enough (it was designed to hold five piggies) but I’m moving and I had to set up their travel cage.
The problem is, Picasso wasn’t meant to have a partner due to his very aggressive behavior (I had to keep him alone in a separate environment when I had a more numerous number of piggies but he seems to get along quite well with Dai) so the travel cage I had should be for one pig only. Now that I’ve rescued Dai (he used to live in very bad conditions, his plastic cage had no bedding and he’s a sheltie so his fur is quite long and was very dirty and messy when I got him, plus he had no hay and only ate pellet) I can see that the cage is too small for the both of them. They’ll have to stay in there for a couple weeks, no more, I’ll settle their real cage as soon as I can but meanwhile I need some advice, how can I make it less stressful for them? Do I need to change anything in the settling? I’ll attach a picture. Please remember that it’s an emergency, I would never keep them there otherwise. Thanks for your time <3
As you can see the cage has fleece bedding on the top, where the house is, I still have to put the other fleece blanket you can see on top of the cage inside, I was washing it when I took the pic, and pellet bedding in the lower part because they really like it and I think it helps Dai keep his fur clean,
They have two little bowls for their pellet and a big one for the veggies, two bottles of water and a big hay rack with a litter box underneath.
The cage is 55x100 cmq plus the 55x20 cmq area where I keep the house (I didn’t put it in the lower part because I think like this they’ve more space to run around). There’s no ladder because they weren’t using it and it took up space.
I’ve got two piggies, Picasso who’s 2 years old and Dai who’s just 5 months old and is a rescue.
The cage I usually have them in is big enough (it was designed to hold five piggies) but I’m moving and I had to set up their travel cage.
The problem is, Picasso wasn’t meant to have a partner due to his very aggressive behavior (I had to keep him alone in a separate environment when I had a more numerous number of piggies but he seems to get along quite well with Dai) so the travel cage I had should be for one pig only. Now that I’ve rescued Dai (he used to live in very bad conditions, his plastic cage had no bedding and he’s a sheltie so his fur is quite long and was very dirty and messy when I got him, plus he had no hay and only ate pellet) I can see that the cage is too small for the both of them. They’ll have to stay in there for a couple weeks, no more, I’ll settle their real cage as soon as I can but meanwhile I need some advice, how can I make it less stressful for them? Do I need to change anything in the settling? I’ll attach a picture. Please remember that it’s an emergency, I would never keep them there otherwise. Thanks for your time <3
As you can see the cage has fleece bedding on the top, where the house is, I still have to put the other fleece blanket you can see on top of the cage inside, I was washing it when I took the pic, and pellet bedding in the lower part because they really like it and I think it helps Dai keep his fur clean,
They have two little bowls for their pellet and a big one for the veggies, two bottles of water and a big hay rack with a litter box underneath.
The cage is 55x100 cmq plus the 55x20 cmq area where I keep the house (I didn’t put it in the lower part because I think like this they’ve more space to run around). There’s no ladder because they weren’t using it and it took up space.
