Entertaining Behaviour

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We have 6 piggies living in the area which joins our living area to our hall. It's open plan downstairs in our house so we can see them all the time and hear them too.

I'm just interested to hear if other people's piggies react in different ways to different humans moving around. Here's a selection of examples from ours:

  1. If my mum has been looking after them while we have been away, for a couple of weeks or so after we get back, they always wheek as soon as she opens our front door. They don't do it if anyone else opens the front door so they must somehow know it's her.
  2. We have a friend who visits twice a week and usually brings carrot sticks with her for them (yes I know, I've tried to suggest some other veggies would be better but her heart is in the right place and we just make sure we don't feed them carrots ourselves to balance it out). As soon as she speaks having arrived, they always wheek.
  3. It is usually me who feed their fresh veggies each day. Throughout the day when I walk from the kitchen into the hall they always start wheeking. If I continue to all the way past their cage, they go crazy until they realise nothing is coming for them.
  4. Our eldest child has taken on feeding them their nuggets and topping up their hay about a month ago. He does this usually early evening time. Now if he walks near them at that time of day they wheek at him (the rest of the time they ignore him).
All little things that amuse me :D
 
My piggies have figured out when it is me getting out of bed (different creaking floor boards) or coming down the stairs or when it is just my husband. They will also not wheek when the front door goes if one of us is at home, but will do so when we both have been out and especially if they can smell shopping coming in the door!

That, our house is totally wheeker alarmed, including the garden!
 
Wiebke said:
My piggies have figured out when it is me getting out of bed (different creaking floor boards) or coming down the stairs or when it is just my husband. They will also not wheek when the front door goes if one of us is at home, but will do so when we both have been out and especially if they can smell shopping coming in the door!

That, our house is totally wheeker alarmed, including the garden!
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They are such clever piggies :luv:
 
Mine can tell different footsteps in the house. They NEVER wheek at my teenage lads moving about upstairs but when me or the OH walk about upstairs in the morning we always get wheeked at.
I am sure they can tell the time and the clocks going forwards or back cause havoc to the "when should we holler for our veggies" routine.
 
Love this thread! We're a bit out of the usual exact routine due to school holidays, but usually they start wheeking when they hear my bedroom door opening first thing in the morning (pellets), also the specific sound of my footsteps on the stairs near veggie time. They are great communicators - I could never forget their beloved veggies! I also love the way they check all the hay areas in turn to make sure I've topped them all up.
 
LilyandGeorge said:
Love this thread! We're a bit out of the usual exact routine due to school holidays, but usually they start wheeking when they hear my bedroom door opening first thing in the morning (pellets), also the specific sound of my footsteps on the stairs near veggie time. They are great communicators - I could never forget their beloved veggies! I also love the way they check all the hay areas in turn to make sure I've topped them all up.
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That's so funny that they check all the hay areas to make sure you've done your job properly - you are their slave! Have you tried not filling one to see what they do? I bet they'd wheek at you!
 
Wiebke said:
They can tell the time pretty exactly. My Mischief used to come and sit unfailingly quietly by my feet a quarter of an hour before feeding time. 5 minutes before feeding time she'd start nudging my feet and on the minute the wheeking alarm would go off!
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I love this example.
 
VickiA said:
Mine can tell different footsteps in the house. They NEVER wheek at my teenage lads moving about upstairs but when me or the OH walk about upstairs in the morning we always get wheeked at.
I am sure they can tell the time and the clocks going forwards or back cause havoc to the "when should we holler for our veggies" routine.
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That's so like children - I never thought of needing to move feeding time gradually in the run up to clocks going forwards or back but we used to do that with our children's bedtimes.
 
PiggySmitten said:
That's so funny that they check all the hay areas to make sure you've done your job properly - you are their slave! Have you tried not filling one to see what they do? I bet they'd wheek at you!
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Haha yes that did happen! I used to pile the hay on the top platform but I was having to clean it several times a day as they just peed all over it, so I changed to just filling a rack, a nest and a tray. They let me know that I'd "forgotten" the platform - they kept going up to it and looking all disappointed. I actually caved in and filled it a few times as I felt bad. Proper slave!
 
If I even so much as turn over in my bed, they will wheek their heads of, and if I am even 5 minutes late they will attempt to stamp on my fingers!:))
 
Love this, my two recognise our car door (I only know this now because the other half has been using my car when I've been off work) and start wheeking, it gets louder when they hear the gate and even louder when they hear the front door. They only do it for our car though no one else's on the street. Cuties.
 
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