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All the pigs do is eat and sleep

My Baby Mu

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All my pigs do basically is eat and sleep! It is a boar trio in a 2x5 cage with 3 pigloos, 1 pvc pipe, and 1 hay tunnel. Have any ideas on how to get them to move around?
 
hmm... That sounds like my two girls. But whenever my husband goes near them they run around like nuts. And I think they have fun when we're sleeping. Do they play during floor time? Try moving stuff around, give them a cardboard tube. Maybe there is too much in their cages for them to run around. Else then that I dont know what to say. Good luck. How long have you had them?
 
They kind of play during floor time. They have cardboard tubes and other toys. I have had Mu for a while but I got 2 more about 2 weeks ago.
 
I would say give them time maybe they are just getting used to their new home and buddy.
 
Give them paper bags, crumpled up newspaper, some balls with bells in them, toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls with hay in them. You can also move the hay to one end of the cage and the pellets & water to the other end. That encourages exercise.
 
Eating is the number one enjoyment of piggies. In the wild piggies spend on an average of 13 hours nibbling on whatever they can find. My piggies don't play, they enjoy their 3 level condo where I hide treats each day on the 2nd and 3rd level and they spend their day running up and down looking for them. I try to give treats that are nutritious and will last like alfalfa logs and alfalfa cubes, apple branches. I enjoy watching them run up to the 3rd floor sniffing all around until they find their treat and then they will spend maybe 3 minutes nibbling on it then running back down. This goes on all day. So they spend most of their time when they are not sleeping on the first level eating their hay, running up to the 2nd level for their water and pellets and the 3rd level for their hidden treats.
 
Thats all guinea pigs do do :D

Do they get floor time? that should liven them up.
 
What a good idea about hiding their treats, Pennick!
 
They do get floor time and that helps a little for the first hour or so then they calm down and lay down.
 
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