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#1
10-26-08, 12:20 am
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I was wondering if this happens to anybody else with their guinea pigs. I take my girls out for 2 hours of floor time every day. If i set them up in the living room, they find a corner and hide for 2 hours. If I put them in the kitchen, the same thing, the cower and hide the whole time. Same thing with the rest of the house...except the bedroom. Oh how they love the bedroom. They will run, sing, play, interact with each other, its great. How come they don't want to have any fun in any other room of the house? I set them up in each room the same way: i put out about 10 hidey houses/tunnels and pillows/blankets to cuddle in and a hay rack and water bottle. Their cage is in the bedroom, does is have anything to do with it? Do they not feel safe to play unless they are in close proximity to their cage?       |
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10-26-08, 03:11 am
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What are your floors like in your living room and kitchen? Pigs tend to shy away from wood floors, linoleum, etc. They love carpeted areas though. |
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10-26-08, 09:22 am
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If it's where there cage is then maybe they feel more comfortable. They might even smell someone's scent they like in the bedroom. |
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10-26-08, 09:45 am
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They're probably used to the way the bedroom smells. It's not foreign to them, so they're not afraid to run around and be themselves. Where as, the kitchen or living room is a totally new environment; probably has different smells, sounds, textures. |
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11-13-08, 08:38 pm
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Week almost approaching 7... My piggies have officially marked the living room as their territory of comfort (they are comfortable enough to sleep there, fight over food, play follow the leader, have mad dashes & pop-corning besides the regular trail of poop). My youngest pig Bubbles have been the bold one to lead out other pigs & is still currently the only pig comfortable enough to be both in the living room & the kitchen at the same time. She is the only one that have sneaked out of the cage even when secured to get out to prance around the living room even when I gave the piggies time out when cooking (thats how DH found Bubbles.. "Isn't the gate up? Why is Bubbles out?"). That little rascal! I do think the scent from place to place have something to do with it... as well as how "secured" (open) it is. |
