High Pitched Wheek

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Does anyone know what a high pitched wheek means if you try and touch one of your pigs? Does it mean I'm frightened or don't touch me?

If so, shall I try with a cuddle cup instead of my pair hands?^)
 
I'm quite a new owner, so others can probably advise better, but in my experience, unless your talking about the usual wheeking for food, this is anxiety/ fear. When I first got my two boars quite recently, one of them was so anxious he used to make this high pitched wheeking, almost squeeling, whenever I tried to pick him up, despite being gentle and slow and with stroking first, you would have thought I was trying to kill him! But he's got better even in quite a short space of time, and now doesn't struggle or wheek, although his patience for laptime ends once the veggies do! **

I know others find that allowing their piggies to go in some kind of carrier to pick them up, and cosies to sit in for laptime helps alot (mine gets a towel to hide in). Is this a new piggy for you, or a new sound you're hearing?*
 
He's new by a week, so I'm guessing it's what your saying, he's just a scared pig. I'm holding him around 5 minutes a day, not chasing him, letting him sniff and be stroked, as soon as my finger touch him firmly to hold he sqeals and sometimes looks like he's oging to go for me ¬_¬ lol ah well as long as I know it's just fear, I'll just work on him. :)

Thank you
 
He's probably saying stay away from me and don't hurt me (submission squeaking). I am sure that he'll come round soon!
 
Well I wanted to weigh all my pigs and this time he did a different type of wheek, bit like when Zambi bothers him to much, annoyance lol. Ah well, I thought Mali was a skittish pig but he's come around now so Zuki will eventually.
 
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