Is your Piggie a lap runner or circle runner?

[pennick]

Now that I have this nice 2x4 C&C cage, my eyes have been on my piggies waiting for their first lap around their new home. In fact, I even had a baton ready for them to pass to one another and a sign that read FINISH LINE. Since everything I have been reading on this site demanded a larger cage so our piggies can frolick and run around from one end of the cage to the other, I am still waiting for moment. I guess distance running to my piggies doesn't mean how far they can run, leap or popcorn, they are just as happy running around their hidey houses or running around their tube in circles just like they did in their smaller cage. Don't get me wrong I love their new cage and wouldn't have it any other way. WHAT IS EVERYONE ELSES EXPERIENCE AS FAR AS LAP RUNNING IN THEIR CAGE IS CONCERNED?

 

[Jess1ca]

WHAT IS EVERYONE ELSES EXPERIENCE AS FAR AS LAP RUNNING IN THEIR CAGE IS CONCERNED?

they do run away laps when i try to pick them up. does that count?

 

[pennick]

That was a very funny and cute response. Sorry it doesnt count. They have to be doing their laps on their own.

 

[Jess1ca]

well, no laps here then. 3X3 cage w/two sows....

 

[suzy_99]

I have three piggies and two of them will do laps while the other just sits in the middle of the cage and watches them. It was about 1 month after I built the cage that they began to do laps though, so I thought they never would.

 

[kalrik]

My two girls run in and out of hidey houses and tunnels and like around everything in their cage like a maze, but they don't do actual laps. It seems there is a good 12 inches on the left side of the cage that is never used.

 

[Ly&Pigs]

I have 4 sows. My baby moppy runs laps and circles, through the houses and tunnels, over the pillows, up and down the ramp. She just loves to run. CoCo gets most of her exercise by going up and down the ramp to get food. The other two sometimes do laps through the cage.

 

[aqh88]

Cinnamon will run laps with Bandit(both young pigs). They like to zig zag in and out of boxes or igloos up and down the length of their cage. They manage to throw bedding for 4inches around the cage over the 8inch sides. The older 2 just rumblestrut around and occasionally popcorn. The 2 younger girl pigs will also run in their cage but since they have an oval they tend to run the outside instead of up and down the length like the boys. Rolo likes to run up and down the ramp and sometimes Snickers will to. Snickers is the older pig in that cage and she mostly lays in the hay watching the others. I've never seen her popcorn. Even out in the playpen she just lays down on a blanket or under a box.

 

[lauren]

Timmy's a lap-runner, definitely. He runs the length (5 squares by 1 and a half square), kicks off the end like a swimmer, and keeps on going. Since he's an only-pig, I sometimes stick my hand in there and play along, patting his sides and rear-end. He kicks me, and pops, and keeps running. Sometimes he'll turn around to nip me, but when he realizes it's me, he just starts running again.

 

[muffin_401]

lauren - thats too funny!

 

[AngelsCavies]

My Punking, Weezer, and Kiara would run in laps from the pigloo, tunnels up and down the ramps bumping into each other all day long every single day. All my piggers pretty much do run around laps all the time. its funny to watch them try to run really fast and popcorn the same time.

 

[endzie]

Turbo runs crazy laps.. its funny because Frisco tries to keep up with him but Turbo is too fast.

 

[Trixie]

My piggies don't do any of this,. the only time they run laps is if they dont want to be picked up and I chase them around there home. even in floor time they just sit there

 

[endzie]

My piggies don't do any of this,. the only time they run laps is if they dont want to be picked up and I chase them around there home. even in floor time they just sit there

Did you just get them?

 

[citronsoul]

Phoebe will get bursts of energy & run around cage in various ways. She'll run around in laps or run around objects in figures of 8. It's pretty funny to watch.

Frisco tries to keep up with him but Turbo is too fast.

Haha! Poor Frisco. I guess Turbo will have to help him pick up his speed.

 

[Sparky]

both of mine do laps. patches will be eating and sparky will come up and nip him on the bottom and run away, then he'll sneak back over and keep doing it until patches chases him in laps around the cage. sparky is much younger than patches and it is soooo funny

 

[dagwellismypigy]

My pigs run in lines back and forth during floor time. Occasionly they have sprints around the cage, sometimes they play tag, mostly they sleep.

 

[one48am]

Poor Trixie ^^ Mischief is the same for me. She likes laying at the very back of the cage. Mayhem though.. laps, circles, figure 8s, twirls, you name it, she'll do it. When I came in this morning, she was running circles around Mischief. My favorite though is when she goes lap-crazy.. she'll be standing still or laying down, spring up suddenly and start lapping the cage making this loud 'rrrrrrrrrRRRRRrrrrRRrrr' noise, generally when she's trying to entice older sister to play. Normally keeps it up for about three rounds. At the end of the third lap, she does a leaping lap, then settles down.

 

[endzie]

Phoebe will get bursts of energy & run around cage in various ways. She'll run around in laps or run around objects in figures of 8. It's pretty funny to watch.


Haha! Poor Frisco. I guess Turbo will have to help him pick up his speed.

Yeah, its funny though because Frisco will try and follow, but Turbo is so fast that he can run circles around Frisco and startle him by poking him on the but.. I guess thats his way of getting back at Frisco since Frisco is the dominant one..