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I have had Poppy from a rescue now, since November, thats 7 months.
She is beautiful and I love her so much. However, she is so skittish. I have tried everything, offering her food when she is in the cage, letting her smell my hand, leaving her to her own devices and only approaching her briefly for small amounts of time each day. She never takes food from me when she is in the cage and trying to get her out can be such a struggle.
She is an escape artist, there have been a few occasions now when she has tried to make her escape from the run outside and has darted into bushy areas of the garden giving us all a fright. Lucky can sit on the grass without the run as she would never go anywhere but Poppy could never ever join her as she would run for the hills at the first opportunity.
She is a little livewire to say the least, so quick... blink your eyes, and she is gone. She dives for cover whenever you so much as enter the room in which their cage is kept, let alone put your hand in to give veggies.
She has a good home here where all my family love her and of course no one has hurt her, yet I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle as in 7 months there has been no improvement, I even feel like it may have got worse.
Things are so bad, she is even impacting on Lucky. Lucky is about 6 years old and is the most docile piggie I have ever met. However I feel due to Poppy's skittishness and nervousness, that she is becoming rather skittish herself. And she has lived with us all of her life!
For a while now I have been wondering whether an additional piggie could help Poppy's situation. I know a trio of females can be difficult, but I thought perhaps a very young neutered boar could help. If she could 'mother' a piggie, would she grow in confidence?
Would having a young piggie to look after and protect help her to see that things are not so bad... or would it make the situation ten times worse.
Its something Ive been considering for a couple of months and I would be happy to add a piggie to my couple, but i would need to be sure that there was a good chance of it working as i would hate hate hate to make anything worse or to have to rehome the new piggie if things didnt work out. Id also need a bigger cage to house the three of them.
What to dooooo... its a bit of a dilemma
EDIT I forget to mention that Poppy is roughly two and a half years old.
She is beautiful and I love her so much. However, she is so skittish. I have tried everything, offering her food when she is in the cage, letting her smell my hand, leaving her to her own devices and only approaching her briefly for small amounts of time each day. She never takes food from me when she is in the cage and trying to get her out can be such a struggle.
She is an escape artist, there have been a few occasions now when she has tried to make her escape from the run outside and has darted into bushy areas of the garden giving us all a fright. Lucky can sit on the grass without the run as she would never go anywhere but Poppy could never ever join her as she would run for the hills at the first opportunity.
She is a little livewire to say the least, so quick... blink your eyes, and she is gone. She dives for cover whenever you so much as enter the room in which their cage is kept, let alone put your hand in to give veggies.
She has a good home here where all my family love her and of course no one has hurt her, yet I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle as in 7 months there has been no improvement, I even feel like it may have got worse.
Things are so bad, she is even impacting on Lucky. Lucky is about 6 years old and is the most docile piggie I have ever met. However I feel due to Poppy's skittishness and nervousness, that she is becoming rather skittish herself. And she has lived with us all of her life!
For a while now I have been wondering whether an additional piggie could help Poppy's situation. I know a trio of females can be difficult, but I thought perhaps a very young neutered boar could help. If she could 'mother' a piggie, would she grow in confidence?
Would having a young piggie to look after and protect help her to see that things are not so bad... or would it make the situation ten times worse.
Its something Ive been considering for a couple of months and I would be happy to add a piggie to my couple, but i would need to be sure that there was a good chance of it working as i would hate hate hate to make anything worse or to have to rehome the new piggie if things didnt work out. Id also need a bigger cage to house the three of them.
What to dooooo... its a bit of a dilemma
EDIT I forget to mention that Poppy is roughly two and a half years old.
