Box Of Pebbles?

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Cavy Kung-Fu

Cavy Kung-Fu

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Recently someone showed me a Facebook post from one of the piggy pages where someone had used a tray full of pebbles and such.

Apparently they use it like a litter tray and it's natural enrichment for them? So I was curious if it was actually beneficial.

Has anyone ever heard/done this?
 
I would be scared incase they hurt their legs while walking through the pebbles. I've never heard of it before.
 
Funnily enough, I was going to put some in my cage. Mainly to keep the edges down on my fleece & also for the piggies to play with, jumping over them. Knowing my lazy lot they would go round them.
I wouldnt fancy them as a litter tray, think of all that Pooh over the stones that you'd have to clean off.
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Tiamolly123 said:
Funnily enough, I was going to put some in my cage. Mainly to keep the edges down on my fleece & also for the piggies to play with, jumping over them. Knowing my lazy lot they would go round them.
I wouldnt fancy them as a litter tray, think of all that Pooh over the stones that you'd have to clean off.
:lol!:
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Yea the picture I saw on Facebook (annoyingly I can't find it now, typical!) showed all the poops in there so I wondered if it was a thing now :))
 
Mine get the occasional medium sized flat stone popped into their cage for something different, but in all honesty they seem a bit ambivalent about them.
Eddi was initially curious, but he licked it and then lost interest.
I wouldn't use a tray of them as those fragile little legs could easily get caught if they slipped, or were just being generally clumsy.
Knowing my lot one, of them would have a popcorning fit on top of the stones and break a leg.
 
Swissgreys said:
Mine get the occasional medium sized flat stone popped into their cage for something different, but in all honesty they seem a bit ambivalent about them.
Eddi was initially curious, but he licked it and then lost interest.
I wouldn't use a tray of them as those fragile little legs could easily get caught if they slipped, or were just being generally clumsy.
Knowing my lot one, of them would have a popcorning fit on top of the stones and break a leg.
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I pictured Eddi licking the stone and thinking to himself "nope. That's definitely not a blueberry" and walking away :P
 
Yea I wondered if they'd even care? I've got some old stone chopping boards that people have given me that I'll be putting in their cage to help keep them cool so I guess they won't need anything else.

Poor Eddi, he probably DID think it was a giant blueberry :))
 
Seems like a fad going around some of the facebook groups, I wouldn't be using them at all, worry about delicate legs or trying to gnaw them (Chickpea would try this as she is an imbecile :)) ) Some people are claiming that it potty trains them, I think they may be a little deluded. Pigs will poo when and where they like... You will always get more poo in hay because they spend so much time eating in it.
 
sport_billy said:
Seems like a fad going around some of the facebook groups, I wouldn't be using them at all, worry about delicate legs or trying to gnaw them (Chickpea would try this as she is an imbecile :)) ) Some people are claiming that it potty trains them, I think they may be a little deluded. Pigs will poo when and where they like... You will always get more poo in hay because they spend so much time eating in it.
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Haha bless your cotton socks Chickpea, Bella is an imbecile too :))

Yep wondered if it was a fad, hadn't heard of it before so I'll guess it'll die down soon!
 
@sport_billy @Cavy Kung-Fu add Comet to that list, he falls over his own legs popcorning. I'd hate to see what he'd manage with a bed full of pebbles...because they'd both try making a bed out of it. Then there's the worry if they managed to eat it and a stone shattered or something. Eh...maybe not.
 
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