The Piggies did a strange jump.

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Hi People,

My new piggies are settling in although they are still nervy when being handled. Last night we put them in thier pen for a play after we had groomed and handled them, with a few toys and some cucumber. The two of the started hooting away and chattering as we went in the living room. After a while i looked back in and they we doing a strange little jump and kicking out their back legs before chasing one another through the carboard tunnels we put in.

Is this popcorning?
 
Yes its popcorning :D
I love it when they do that and when bunnies 'binky'
It makes me feel all proud cause I know I'm looking after them well :smitten:
 
Great news, i wondered what others were talking about when they mentioned popcorning.

My wife was raging, she had our cat on her knee and couldnt get up :laugh:

she asked me to video them but as soon as i got the camera onto them the stopped and looked at me as if to say "what us? no we werent doing anything" ;)
 
aw thats great they sound very happy :smitten: :smitten: i love popcorning piggies
 
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awwwwww it's the most gorgeous and hilarious thing to watch :D :D :D :D
You're lovely wife will get to see this many times i'm sure O0 O0
Wait for it for when they popcorn so hard they turn around and then go huh ? ? ? ? what happened there ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
There little ears flap around and the legs go every which way and they can accidentally bump into things too :D :D :D :D
 
Aw - I love it when the popcorn! I've just started opening the cage when I'm the house so the girls can come and go as they please and they tornado/popcorn all about the room - its absolutely brilliant to watch and makes me laugh so much. The cats don't quite know what to do with themselves when they're doing it. :smitten:
 
They are currently submerged in a mound of hay in the middle of their pen. They have had their first taste of broccoli and cherry tomatoes tonight and the seem like happy little campers.
They are still very shy about being handled, i get the impression that they were not handled regularly prior to them being handed into the SSPCA.
 
Time and patience love and they'll learn that the 'hand' is a food and loving thing O0
Get them out and sit on the ground with them and have some treats so they'll be encouraged to come up and sniff you and eat their treat O0 Meanwhile talk quietly to them and they'll get used to your voice and hear in it the love that they so obviously didn't get before :'( :'(
I use different voices for different things, when feeding i make it an excited voice ;D ;D ;D they soon learn :smitten: :smitten:
Hope your wife gets to see them popcorning soon :)
 
Thats what we have been doing, just sitting with them for an hour per night. Giving them a few treats and then letting them go nuts in their pen again while we clean out their cage. Their chasing each other round th mound of hay and through carboard tunnels as we speak. :laugh:
 
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