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House dragging

Tfrog

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Cavy Slave
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Ok Flossy has taken things to the ridiculously insane. She has always been a little bit on the lazy side and tends to spend most of her time in her house. She is docile and doesn't run away when I try to pick her up like Polly does. Now I think that is just plain laziness. Flossy has now started dragging her house around everywhere. When she wants to eat she drags her house over to the bowl. Lifts the edge up and over the bowl and sits in her house and eats!!! I put a rock on the top and she's ok about coming out if she can't move it, but if she can move it she doesn't come out at all. The rock stops her from moving the house but I'm a bit worried she might tip it off and it could land on Polly. I don't want to take her house away completely. She is just plain lazy :(
 
Hmmm. My pig does that as well sometimes, but I have figured out that if I take away his house temporarily and put it in for only half an hour or so, periodically, he tends to come out more. Maybe you should try it, but otherwise I am not sure why they do that. Though it may be because they don't want the other pig to take their house. My pig is very dominant and probably feels that if he leaves the house, Maz will enter it and not let him back in.
 
Oh I'm so glad my piggy isn't the only one that does that. She loves moving her house. When she wants complete privacy she head buts it from the inside until the door is facing the side of cage linoleum. And when she wants to run laps, she moves it to the center....sometimes I just laugh because all you can see is this house moving from one part of the cage to another.

She too has taken to grabbing her vegetable/fruit treats and taking them inside her pigloo to eat. I've also seen her with the front of the pigloo over the pellet bowl or over her pile of hay so that she can eat while she's inside. She still has to come out for water and sometimes she'll eat completely outside her pigloo so for her I think it's just a preference thing.
 
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