Toy and Stimulation Ideas

**FranktheTank** · #1 06-19-08, 12:56 pm

I have looked at the toy page many times and tried almost everything on it. My pigs used none of the toys on that page and all they do all day is stay in their pigloos. Does anyone have ideas on ways to keep them active and stimulated? Or good floor time toys and set ups?Also they don't seem to like floor time that much

**Siobhann** · #2 06-19-08, 01:20 pm

I was patient with my girls and kept giving them papertowel rolls stuffed with hay. They used to ignore them and now love the rolls and paperbags.

**FranktheTank** · #3 06-19-08, 01:33 pm

Thank you for the suggestion.

**Harrys Dad** · #4 06-19-08, 03:49 pm

My boys don't like toys they do chew on toilet paper rolls but nothing else except the hay of course and Harry seems to like the coroplast.

**Jane_G** · #5 06-19-08, 04:50 pm

To get Cookie going I stuff a toilet paper roll with hay and some veggies. She especially goes nuts if I put broccoli in the middle. I swear she can smell broccoli from a mile away.

Also stuffing a small lunch size paper bag with hay and/or veggies is fun.

Guinea pigs find the silliest things fun, so be creative.

**imlikeojnow** · #6 06-19-08, 06:19 pm

my wife bought all sorts of toys for our pigs, and they wouldnt touch them. as soon as i put a free crumpled piece of paper in there they went crazy. they love it. im going to try the toilet paper roll with hay next.

**PixieStix** · #7 06-19-08, 07:01 pm

In addition to paper, paper rolls and bags, cardboard boxes can be a hit. If you open both ends, it becomes like a tunnel too.

**Jenni_Feathers** · #8 06-19-08, 08:47 pm

My boys love small boxes stuffed with hay, I always make that extra hole on the side to avoid fighting for the hay http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...Pigs/022-2.jpg,

I got my pigs and my cats one of these at Walmart for $4.00(I think, can't remember, but it was real cheap) this is what they look like at the store http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...Pigs/024-2.jpg
and this is what mine looks like- I put hay in it http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...2/SD530594.jpg

Also, hay, hay, hay and hay. Put it everywhere, a pile in the middle, some in the igloos, everywhere not just in the hay racks, thats no fun.

Thank you Jane_G for this useful post, says:
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