What UNIQUE Sounds Excite Your Piggies?

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I'm fascinated with how well piggiloos* learn to associate certain sounds with certain things. Most of us experience the excitement of them hearing a rustling plastic bag or food related noises, but I'm curious to know what unique sounds everybody's piggies have learned to associate with good (or bad?) events?

For me, my current pigs know that if they hear the shaking sound of pills, it's about to be cuddle and pets time. This is my bottle of Benadryl that I take out to prepare for the intake of dander! As soon as that shaking sound happens, excited wheeks abound because they know very soon they will get lap and body-crawly time. :)

* - not to be confused with pigloos which never react to anything.
 
Nassala said:
Singing sets mine off - I suppose I'm more expressive when I talk to them so the rise and fall of my voice says I'm talking to them specifically, which of course means food! At least someone appreciates my singing 😄
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These are all great but this one is faaabulous. I literally sing for a living, and my current pig (formerly pigs, just lost one recently) looks at me like the world is about to melt down when I sing! I just look at her and say "You know what? Shut up and eat your dandelions."
 
If it’s past their breakfast or dinner time and they hear me talking upstairs! Or if it’s time for breakfast/dinner and they hear me coming down the stairs!
 
The bathroom door closing, 'cause that means we are going to bed and that means veggie time and hay top up. They try to send us to bed any time after about 6pm!

A tin being opened, their nuggets are kept in a tin so any tin means nuggets!

The back door opening, that means grass, apparently the only reason we have for going into the garden is to fetch them grass.
 
As soon as my lot hear my bedroom door they get excited and start squeaking and chewing bars.

This even means when people go into my room and not just me leaving. My door moving instantly means food time :))

My bed creaking used to have the same reaction. They knew when I would wake up by my bed. Thankfully I have a new mattress so that one doesn't happen anymore. It used to freak me out how they knew I was awake :)) (somehow they knew the difference between it moving while I slept and it moving when I was awake...?)
 
MuffinTopRescue said:
I'm fascinated with how well piggiloos* learn to associate certain sounds with certain things. Most of us experience the excitement of them hearing a rustling plastic bag or food related noises, but I'm curious to know what unique sounds everybody's piggies have learned to associate with good (or bad?) events?

For me, my current pigs know that if they hear the shaking sound of pills, it's about to be cuddle and pets time. This is my bottle of Benadryl that I take out to prepare for the intake of dander! As soon as that shaking sound happens, excited wheeks abound because they know very soon they will get lap and body-crawly time. :)

* - not to be confused with pigloos which never react to anything.
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Mine know the sound of my motorbike coming into the drive! They also know that the first flush of the toilet in the day means I'm awake and that breakfast will be soon 😂 both of these times they wheek and Popcorn all over the place, amazing.
 
When I go outside in the morning, uncover the hutch and say in my piggy voice "breakfast time" cos this means 3 dandelion leaves each, nuggets and if they are really lucky a bowlful of mixed dried forage. Yum!
 
The front door opening and/or the kitchen sink running. They seem to think that it means we’re washing something for them or have only gone into the out to bring them food :)) They also get quite excited at The Great British Bake Off being on telly... I have no idea why XD
 
Blitzen always used to get really angry if he heard gannets on the TV. He believed they were his mortal enemy for reasons I never really understood.
They also really liked it when I was playing music and they weren't right fussy about genres.
 
One of my kids is always good for a treat, far more reliably than the other two kids. They know both his voice and his footsteps and respond a whole lot more to him showing up than they do for me or the other kids.

Mine also know the sound my desk chair makes and if it's the evening (when they get let out to run around and have snacks) they squeak when they hear the chair creak. Other times of day they ignore the chair sounds because they know they aren't coming out. They are much smarter than many assume!
 
The usual crinkling of bags of course. But what surprised us was whenever my hubby runs the bath at around 9pm, my piggies go nuts running around squeeking because they know it's treats (salad) time! So if hubby gets an earlier bath, they think they'll get treats as well. 😂😂 This all started with my past piggies and the current ones has caught up with the pattern too. 😁
 
the noises my bed make when I get off it. They realize I'm awake and they even get the zoomies. It's funny cuz they only do the zoomies part when I wake up as if they're excited to see me after sleeping for so many hours (just wish they get excited like that for pick up and check up times) and also whenever someone knocks on my door. They suddenly forget that they just ate and beg anyone else to feed them too 😂
 
AlphaUrd13 said:
They suddenly forget that they just ate
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All piggies haven't been fed in eleventy billion years didn't you know that? We are all very uncaring and baaaaaaaaaaaaad slaves too cos we never feed them. Well that is what they want everyone else to believe!
 
My two go mad at the sound of the kitchen taps - I know this because the sink is immediately below where their cage is in the room above and I can hear them zooming about! They've learnt that the sound of the taps going on and off (when I'm washing their veg) means exciting food is imminent! As somebody else mentioned, I can see them looking and listening in the morning for my bedroom door to open and the first toilet flush of the day because that means I've *finally* got up and they don't have much longer to wait until their breakfast.

As far as my singing goes..."What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor" seems to go down the best with my guinea pig audience. Part of the theme tune (cos I don't know the rest of it) of a 1940s radio programme called Happidrome, "We three in Happidrome, working for the BBC; Ramsbottom, and Enoch, and me", seems to have a pleasing/calming effect on them; if I'd known I'd have called them Ramsbottom and Enoch rather than Primrose and Stanley! They don't particularly care for my rendition of "Lydia The Tattooed Lady", sadly.
 
Also, whilst not exactly unique, the sound of hay being pulled out of the cardboard box is either the best thing in the world or all a bit old hat, depending on what sort of mood they're in.
 
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