What have I learnt about my piggies in the past week?

[klee]

I have had my 3 ginger girls for over a year and Rosie for 7 years and am still coming across little things I had never noticed about them before.

Like how Rosie has been fooling us all this time. Initially Rosie used to have Wagg crunch food but since getting the other 3 I have switched to Harringtons pellets supplemented with some Burgess excel original pellets (which Rosie 'Never' eats) I popped the pellets into separate bowls today. I came back from dropping my Brother off at school and was hanging the washing out, and Rosie was stuffing her face with the excel pellets topped off by drinking out of their newish Ferplast sippy bottle (which I have only seen Ruby drinking from previously)

Tia has separation anxiety from Esme. I have had to have the girls on the patio as the grass has been to damp to go out in the run, I put Tia in the run with Rosie whilst I got the other two. Tia went nuts running around looking for Esme, and crying for her. She calmed down when her Mummy was back with her.

The girls (except Rosie) have found a new way of letting me know they want to go back into the hutch. Esme will climb up the bars of the run and will wait there to be picked up, which Ruby and Tia have both started copying. They haven't quite got the hang of staying still to be picked up yet though.

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[piggyfan]

That was very interesting. How cute the Squasher loves Esme so much. Cheeky Rosie tricking you.

 

[sport_billy]

Bless them. Cookie bits bars in run to go home and now this is something that Sassy has started to copy too. I'm hoping avoid will tell Vimto not to bite me

 

[Lilly]

Ha ha Rosie fooling you all this time! My boys have recently developed food separation anxiety. Whenever I take out the hay trays or dry food bowls, even if just to re-fill, they mill about the area where the containers were. When I return the containers they immediately sniff all around them and satisfied that the food is back they go about their other piggy business.

 

[klee]

It seems to be more common than I thought, these piggies are so demanding. Haha
How sweet they get upset when you take their food away,Lilly. Esme stands there and waits until you bring the food bowls back and then promptly stand on the edge and Tips it over 9times out of 10!

 

[Lilly]

It seems to be more common than I thought, these piggies are so demanding. Haha
How sweet they get upset when you take their food away,Lilly. Esme stands there and waits until you bring the food bowls back and then promptly stand on the edge and Tips it over 9times out of 10!

Thank goodness mine don't tip their bowls completely over. I have enough mess when Peanut Butter digs into his bowl with his front paws like a dog so some of the food does end up outside of the bowl. And yes I never realised how demanding piggies can be until I got these two. Lately, when Hazelnut realises I am getting vegies ready in the kitchen he has started rattling the cage bars on the side facing the kitchen by banging his hay rack against the bars. Is this meant to hurry me up?

I began saying dogs were easier, until I got one again. I had to go out in the cold rain with her this morning so she would do her stuff and then dry her off so my wood floors wouldn't get wet and slippery. Hmmm, maybe piggies aren't such a chore after all.