Taking water bottle off at night

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Sparky who is loud, proud and in your face. He is very loud and attention seeking and often rattles his water bottle loudly. I find it quite funny, particulary when I walk in the hall way and he starting rattling it hammer and tong with a intent look on his face and it was very funny :))whenn he did when I had lots of friends round from my church but, its not funny at 2am@):laluot_28:

Do you think it would be fair to take it off him and his cage mate at night?
 
I wouldn't in case they are thirsty... can you pad where it rattles? He might get bored of it eventually! If not you could try a water bowl, or some earplugs!
 
Thanks there is no chance of Sparky getting bored of any attention seeking activity. He will keep going until he achieves his aims
 
He sounds like a naughty piglet! One of our pigs has a waterbowl, he's fine with it (but often leaves a poop or a bit of salad in there for me to empty!)
 
They do drink of a night, but its no joke you need to sleep. Can you pad it with bubble wrap. My foster boys are in the living room at the mo and they are so quiet. Squeak all day though! :(|)
 
Duh mallethead")

Just twigged why he's so demanding at the mo, its cos mummys poorly :laluot_08:and he always gets more anxious and clingy when I am ill
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, I think he does it because he knows I will go to the cage and check him and at the same time he can check me.
 
lol aww...yeah perhaps you could pad around where it rattles, or maybe he wants some toys. That way he probably would stop rattling the water bottle and play with the toys instead
 
Aww just thought they may chew the bubble wrap! :)

Maybe pad it with fabric. Hope you feel better soon! x
 
Thanks for your suggestions, he has several toys in his cage, maybe he is bored of them and needs something else
 
It's amazing just how much noise a pig can make with a water bottle in the wee hours of the night! Mine do it too .... almost compulsively / obsessively - it's SO annoying! They've got plenty else to do, but they just seem to like the sound. :{

If you do cure it I'd love to know how!

Sophie
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Try a bowl of water for him, make sure that he can reach it. For the first few nights make sure the bottle is there, you don't want to take it away and him not know how to use the bowl of course. Hopefully it won't take him to long to learn how to use it. Hope that helps.
 
YOu could also try a different type of bottle. Those flat-backed aqua-sip bottles ( with the little yellow ducks inside to show water level) don't make any nosie at all. The balls inside are very firm and tihgtly in place and also the bottle itself doesn't move at all, as it is held firmly in palce in the cage clip attachment.
 
aww,could you get some cucumber chunks in at night! when we first got bethany and maggie-may, maggie used to empty her water bottle all overself at night! it was just aswell i finished at 10pm every night then as it meant i could stay up ready with a towel for the little soaking piggy!
 
stargrrlclaire said:
aww,could you get some cucumber chunks in at night! when we first got bethany and maggie-may, maggie used to empty her water bottle all overself at night! it was just aswell i finished at 10pm every night then as it meant i could stay up ready with a towel for the little soaking piggy!
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Blimey, what a crazy little piggy!
 
I would just exchange the bottle for a tip prof bowl at night times!
 
my piggies live in my garage although i have the best water bottle, its glass but clips to the cage, hard to explain but from pets at home and is
£3.99 they do a bigger one to but would stop the clangering around
 
I agree. Try using a water bowl so at least he and his cage mate can have a drink if they want to. I think it would be mean to take their water supply away altogeter. He sounds like a very naughty piggy :)p
 
Popcorn said:
YOu could also try a different type of bottle. Those flat-backed aqua-sip bottles ( with the little yellow ducks inside to show water level) don't make any nosie at all. The balls inside are very firm and tihgtly in place and also the bottle itself doesn't move at all, as it is held firmly in palce in the cage clip attachment.
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Silence is golden,

Tommys bottle was the ones with the yellow duck in it, so I swapped them round and though he still trying to rattle it he's getting nowhere
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yay glad you solved it, one of our indoor pigs is very noisy with the water bottle, but luckily they're all in a far away room from upstairs!
 
Sparky in a major huff with me I picked him up for a cuddle last night he made it quiet clear that he wasn't going to entertain that idea
 
hi

glad you solved it though he always has home with me anytime you know that 8;)
 
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