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Old 04-20-09, 09:24 am
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Unhappy Piglett doesn't seem to like floor time

I have a concern. My piggie doesn't seem to like floor time. He normally just looks for a place to hide (I gave him a large tube to hide in) and stays in one spot. He comes out for veggies but then scurries away really fast. All the while he's making the I'm scared, self-soothing nervous cooing and complaining sound. He wheeked today for the first time during floor time yesterday for veggies. But mostly if he moves about he makes very nervous wheeking sounds. I try to talk to him, but that seems to only make it worse. I had to hide veggies around the perimeter of his floor space in four different corners to get him to explore. When I go to put him back he struggles to get away from me and back in his cage when I bring him near it, which makes the whole process stressful on me and seemingly on him. When he gets back inside his cage, he's very calm (can pet him usually in the cage, especially if I'm cleaning it). Will he grow to like floor time (he's pretty young) or will he always be a scaredy-cat during floor time? Could it be that he's just not that used to such a big space (his current cage is store bought, and I'm working on ordering a C&C because I can't find the right supplies to build my own)? Some advice to get him used to floor time would be greatly appreciated.
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