ugh why wont * play !

do your pigs play with you

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my piggies are very sweet and cuddly i get them out at leaast twice a day and always attempet to play with them but they just sit there and stare at me before peeing or worse then running away what can i do as i love them very much ? :(
 
Bubbles will sometimes play with me (when he's in the right mood!) but other times when he doesnt want to be handled/played with, he lets me know...with his teeth! :))
 
It's very difficult to 'play' with guinea-pigs in the sense you can with a ferret, cat or dog, they're just not that type of animal.

They're better suited placed into a lovely large run or safe area of your house to run around in. If you have toys and tubes etc they can have to 'play' with and in, put those down for them instead as they likely won't play with you as such.

But it will take a very long time, and an immense amount of patience by you to 'tame' them. You just have to be slow, gentle and quiet around them if they're very nervous. You have to remember they are a prey animal and you're a predator to them, but they don't know you won't hurt them, as much as you love them, its one of those things you have to accept with guinea-pigs.

Hope that's put your mind at rest as it can be frustrating and upsetting to some owners not used to piggy ways.
 
Some of my guinea pigs choose to interact with me, they will run to the front of the cage when they see me, and take food from my fingers. Mario and Treacle will flop out out on my lap and lick me. I wouldn't say any of them play with me though.
 
Although I wouldnt ever force my piggies to "play" or if it caused them distress then I'd stop immidiately of course.
But my little boy Bubbles is so adorable when he "plays" with me. I'll sit in the run with him and he'll come up and sniff me, and when I stroke him he does a little popcorn x)
He also likes to play "chase the hand" where I put my hand in and he'll try and climb on it and I'll move my hand and he chases it :))
This is all of course on his own terms and he chooses to do this, I would never force him. However, my other piggies are all lazy fuzzbutts who prefer a good old snooze rather than to play with their piggy slave :(|)
 
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