Terrible Mistake!

[MyGuineaPigPals]

So when I first got my boys as part of training I taught that when I whistle my boys would receive food/mostly veggies at veggie time. So cute as a button when i whistle they start wheeking ready for their veggies!

However Whilst they were living in the living room and the TV would be on they then started to think that the ditty whistled in the Mcdonalds advert meant food too so every time the advert came on they wheeked!

At first I thought thats hilarious so I whistled it myself when feeding them .... Its not so funny now its really worn thin haha

Annoying advert!!

Has anyone else ever trained their pigs to respond to anything?

 

[piggyfan]

Aww that is cute and clever.

 

[AbiS]

I shout 'piggllllleeeeesssssss' in a high pitched voice and they come running from wherever they are. 'Whassthisforyou' also works. Only works because that is the food cry!

 

[Azi]

i trained mine to react to 'kissing' noises, but they already know veggies could be incoming as soon as I open the fridge door! Even if we just move around sometimes they'll start wheeking at us, I guess they think trying can't hurt!

 

[Cavyhappy]

When I shake the food around in the container they jump up onto the mesh wire and wheek. Also when I call them by their nicknames in a high-pitched voice, they know it's cuddle time Whistling's a great idea!

 

[katie-elizabeth]

When I shake the food around in the container they jump up onto the mesh wire and wheek. !

mine do that too, so cute

 

[sport_billy]

Girls, girls, girls used to send Cookie and Treacle into wheeks and running to the bars for tea! We haven't done that since and Cookie has forgot it now... lol

 

[Briony_S]

Mine have trained themselves that most things mean food. When they were in living room chopping food would mean food, tap also (due to rinsing veggies) come from kitchen to living room - now they liv upstairs in the spare room next to bathroom somehow the shower and also the toilet flushing means food

crazy pigs

 

[MyGuineaPigPals]

mine also respond to every sound from the kitchen even the kettle boiling now!

 

[GloriousGuineaGirl]

As soon as I finish dust busting and I say "veggie time" and the bowls chink they stand up at the cage sides wheeking. When I sleep over at work my husband goes in to do their heat pads at the normal time I would go in (7am) and they auto start wheeking at him lol.

 

[Rodentopia]

Slightest floor board creak sets mine off wheeking, no training required

 

[MrsSuzy]

Any sound from me high pitched and it sets them off. Saying "yum, yum". The sound of my nails in wooden floor. The kitchen bin. Obviously veggie drawers of fridge and rustling bag, lol

 

[LeahsPiggies]

When I pick grass or rustle a bag mine start a piggie choir!

 

[Jess]

I go into the shed and says 'pigs!' or 'girlies' but as soon as Rambo hears the door opening she's off alerting the troops.
Rambo has also recognised the veggie bowl too.. To clever for her own good >=/

 

[GuineaPiggie]

I clap my hands quite loudly and the pigs go mad!

 

[Lady Kelly]

I started a clicking sound which would and still does start them off but everything triggers the greedy lot now. Walking over the gravel in the garden, coming in the back gate, chopping stuff on a chopping board if the window or door is open, bags rustling, and sometimes even just me talking lol

 

[Briony_S]

Me and hubbie can be sat downstair on couch and they start shouting from upstairs I think that is to get me to come see them lol

 

[MyGuineaPigPals]

Me and hubbie can be sat downstair on couch and they start shouting from upstairs I think that is to get me to come see them lol

mine do that attention seeking haha then they bolt as soon as i try to stroke them