Scots_Owner
New Born Pup
Hi everyone, first time owner here. I have three little females (about four months old and we've had them two months). My question is about taming. We have been trying to go slow and be sensetive to how they get scared, so we haven't been handling them much. We have mostly been talking to them and trying to hand feed them. One of them will come to your hand and take food from you, but still panics when you try to pick her up (although it is doable). The other two don't really seem to be getting any more tame.
I've seen some people saying they just catch their pigs and cuddle them and that's how they tamed them, but I don't want to get into a habit of having to chase them down every time we want to cuddle them. The shy two also act very afraid when you're holding them.
What is best to do? Keep going the way we're going with hand feeding until they come to us or is it better to kind of go 'tough love' and keep picking them up and holding them until they realise it's safe? Even just writing that I feel the slow approach is better, but I just feel like we're making no progress with two out of the three.
Thank you.
I've seen some people saying they just catch their pigs and cuddle them and that's how they tamed them, but I don't want to get into a habit of having to chase them down every time we want to cuddle them. The shy two also act very afraid when you're holding them.
What is best to do? Keep going the way we're going with hand feeding until they come to us or is it better to kind of go 'tough love' and keep picking them up and holding them until they realise it's safe? Even just writing that I feel the slow approach is better, but I just feel like we're making no progress with two out of the three.
Thank you.