piggie thread

[ester]

It's been a while

Millie carries on getting tamer, it's all food motivated but she now has a habit that she will come and essentially beg if I move the right way, or speak to them. Sometimes Tiffin comes too

Sometimes she comes and stares at me on her own. .

But it does mean we can do touching.

But then I feel guilty I haven’t brought anything

Longer vid for those who enjoy guinea pig noms.

 

[ownedbyaconnie]

Oh I love them! I used to look after a neighbours piggies for 6 weeks every summer holidays when they went to their house in France. They’re such funny little things.

 

[julesjoy]

Yay, I was thinking of posting an update thread too!

Love Millie's fluffy look.

Mine give me the right runaround if I try to catch them which I'm sure is hilarious for any onlookers as I open and close each of the 4 doors on the hutch in quick succession doing so. Perfectly cuddly once captured ?? they have the world's biggest hutch outside the backdoor and tell me when it's breakfast, lunch and dinner time and totally get in the way when I clean them out. I weighed them recently and they now weigh :
Tulip 1086g now a year old
Poppy 1020g at 6 months old
Squeak 1234g now 2 years old

Can't decide when I get a new house whether to try to fit them indoors (my garden is covered in hay, how does this not happen indoors?), or just get them a whole shed of their own.

Anyway here they are:

 

[ester]

Oh my kitchen is fairly covered in hay quite a lot. I've had them on carpet and laminate and carpet is a pain to clean but it doesn't travel so far!

Catching them from a double height hutch is definitely the trickiest everywhere else they just jump in their travel box- Tiffin really hates being hand carried anywhere too, can't say I blame her its a long way up. I usually encourage them upstairs so I'm not grovelling on the floor and then block the bedroom exit.

I'm impressed they know if I'm up earlier it's personal training time and they will be waiting for breakfast, their noises are very much amplified by skype though and so Millies' rumble strutting sounds like a machine gun going off

I need to weigh them at some point, Tiffin is still really small but does now have more of a double chin.

 

[scats]

Gorgeous piggies

Heres Keaton and Murray having breakfast this morning

 

[scats]

Not sure why Murray is sideways..!

 

[julesjoy]

More cute faces!

Occasionally when it's been dry long enough and not too windy Ive been putting them in the run on the patio. Here are all 3 squished under the smaller castle when I wanted to catch them today:

 

[ester]

I love how keaton's face is so half/half.

I weighed millie, she cheated by keeping one foot on the kitchen worktop. .

 

[Chinchilla]

I always have to resist the urge to wheek at my phone when I see these two. They're gorgeous ???

 

[scats]

What do you all bed yours on?
I’ve just gone back to using fleece bedding. I tried it a few years go and didn’t get on with it, but I’m giving it another go. They have hay down in the ‘kitchen’ area (where they have their hay, readigrass and pellets) as that’s where it tends to get wetter and then fleece down on the rest, with puppy pads underneath. I brush the fleece off twice a day and so far so good.

 

[julesjoy]

The closed in bed part upstairs has puppy pads and miscanthus type wood chips, then two trays of the same under their castle and hay downstairs where most of the wee gets done. Then I've got fleeces with bath mats over in the left over space.