Someone’s getting smart...

[Sonnet]

Was having some downtime this afternoon, just sitting and watching something on my IPad, when something in the corner of my eye catches my attention. I look up, and see the black blob known as Sprout, staring at me. At the sight of me turning my head, he starts wheeking.
“No, Sprout. No food, you’ve got plenty of hay,” I say.
“Wheek.”
“No.”
“Wheek Wheek.”
“No!”
He runs out of sight, but the wheeking continues. And increases in volume.
“WHEEK! WHEEEKKKK?! WHEET!”
Eventually broke down and gave him (and Spud) a treat, but I swear that he’s getting sassier every day!

 

[David Piggie Lover]

Resistance is Futile. x

 

[Sonnet]

Resistance is Futile. x

Yep!

 

[Betsy]

Oh somepigs getting a slave well trained!

 

[Sonnet]

Oh somepigs getting a slave well trained!

 

[PigglePuggle]

Mine were at it tonight, we had visitors for dinner. Chat, hand out drinks and crisps and nuts, go to start on dinner...
Open fridge... "WHEEK WHEEK WHEEEEK!"
Dinner guests say, I think your guinea pigs are hungry. I say, no, they are fine, they had a big afternoon snack then a cage-clean-out-day size pile of hay.
"WHEEEEK WHEEEK WHEEEEK WHEEK WHEEK WHEEK"
Conversation is impossible. I look embarrased and abandon hooman food preparation to start making an unnecessary piggy meal just to shut them up...

 

[Sonnet]

Mine were at it tonight, we had visitors for dinner. Chat, hand out drinks and crisps and nuts, go to start on dinner...
Open fridge... "WHEEK WHEEK WHEEEEK!"
Dinner guests say, I think your guinea pigs are hungry. I say, no, they are fine, they had a big afternoon snack then a cage-clean-out-day size pile of hay.
"WHEEEEK WHEEEK WHEEEEK WHEEK WHEEK WHEEK"
Conversation is impossible. I look embarrased and abandon hooman food preparation to start making an unnecessary piggy meal just to shut them up...

Oh dear, naughty piggies! I swear they do it deliberately sometimes.

Sprout has also taken to pulling on the spout of his water bottle when he wants something, which results in the bottle falling off and me having to put it back up again. And he plays shove the carrot cottage around.

 

[Lorcan]

And he plays shove the carrot cottage around.

I remember a certain pig doing that because it was interfering with his zoomies circuit. His cagemate, asleep in said carrot cottage, was very displeased. I felt kind of bad for the neighbours.

 

[Flutterby]

 

[Merab]

I’m sure there’s a slave training handbook for piggies which they all seem to know by osmosis

 

[Lorcan]

I’m sure there’s a slave training handbook for piggies which they all seem to know by osmosis

It gets taught them in their dreams

 

[Freela]

I told my son that he is the guinea pigs' slave, because Leela in particular is always squeaking at him and he is always getting her food. He didn't deny it was true, but said he prefers to be called an 'unpaid intern.'

 

[Merab]

Love that phrase ‘unpaid intern’
Actual, we pay through the nose for the privilege of keeping these gorgeous creatures