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BenjiAndButtons

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Any other usual behaving guineas out there or do we have the only one?

Tale 1: Benji.. black and wait short haired. Pretty sure Benji thinks he's a human, he hated his previous housemate with a passion, and now his new friend hasn't faired any better, he rumbles at the sight of him, becomes so aggressive! Yet he is the most placid and loving piggy towards his human mummy and daddy. Loves to sit on us, lick us, gets very jealous if another pig, or dog has been near us, and gets quite protective when his young friend nips us. I wonder if piggies are just naturally this friendly towards what are essentially predators to them or if benji is just a human trapped in a guineas body!

Tale 2: Barney, has taken the rather annoying habbit of jumping out of his cage when the door is open. I'm sure they're supposed to be scared? No not this guy, he climbs out and he's off looking for food.

Love to hear other unusual guinea stories! They do make me laugh.
 
I wouldn't worry about the escaping thing!

My Lola is a ball of business, and as soon as she got settled in her new home she began escaping from the cage to have a little explore... I never bothered securing the doors on the cage because my other pig, Sunny, was too lazy to bother with the world outside his cage!
Now every day, at least twice a day, Lola goes for a stroll around our dining room (where the cage is) and sitting room,just to see what's going on.

Sunny loves to plonk himself on a cushion on my lap and watch the TV. Especially when my fiancee is playing Fifa on the Playstation.

During lap-time, he'll often hop up on my chest and rumble strut around it, while glaring at Lola... as much as to say "she was my Mum first, back off!"

I don't smoke in my house, so if I'm nipping out the back for a cigarette, and it's been a few days since they've had fresh grass, they'll SCREAM at me when I come in, demanding the green stuff.

It's a pity the weather is so bad in Ireland, they love being out in the back garden on the lawn :(
 
One of my first pigs (technically she was brother's) would run up the stairs but never down. We had to go get her. She also used to open the door to her carry box and then turn around and shut the door behind her!

Her 'sister' was too lazy to do any such thing and her escapades started and ended with giving my dog kisses through the run wire.

My next pig used to play with said dog; he would play bow at her and she would squeal and pop corn and do poppy zoomies around the run while he bounced away and came around again to do it all over again!

She also once bit the tail off a mouse that was 'sharing' their food. She had attitude !
 
Ah woah! They are obviously very protective!

Happy now know theres other escapers out there :)

We've always wanted to give them fresh grass or let them on it, but we have seaguls in the air and a stray (not so stray) cat that comes for food everyday, do you wash the grass off or is yours safe?
 
Guineapigfeet said:
One of my first pigs (technically she was brother's) would run up the stairs but never down. We had to go get her. She also used to open the door to her carry box and then turn around and shut the door behind her!

Her 'sister' was too lazy to do any such thing and her escapades started and ended with giving my dog kisses through the run wire.

My next pig used to play with said dog; he would play bow at her and she would squeal and pop corn and do poppy zoomies around the run while he bounced away and came around again to do it all over again!

She also once bit the tail off a mouse that was 'sharing' their food. She had attitude !
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Haha! I like the attitude of your pig there! Though bites the tail off shows just how strong they are!
 
We had another pig, who tipped coffee all over me whilst i was sat on the floor with him doing my dissertation, full cup pipping hot, all over my backside!
 
I'm sure Toast is part human, part dog and part guinea pig.

She follows me around the house everywhere like a puppy (they're free to roam) and waits by the front door for me finishing work. She will not allow anyone else to pet her or touch her (or even breathe near her) but she comes running to me when I call her name.
She will also eat anything and everything she finds lying about, clothes, rubber bands, the carpet... you name it she's ate it.

Beans sits by the fridge throughout the day, pacing back and forth hoping someone will give her food. If I don't give her any she'll run to me then back to the fridge as if to say "this way, human. Food!"

Guinea pigs are weird. :blink:
 
I was staying at my parents house one Christmas and I'd been there for a few days, it got to Christmas morning, and Jake decided for some reason to make that the morning he wanted to yell for his breakfast. My parents had a dog at the time who was a bit daft and couldn't be allowed near the pigs because of it, and she didn't realise til then there were any lurkers in the house. His yelling woke her up. Nobody was very impressed with me when, between the pair of them, they woke up the entire house at 7am :whistle: he was a great alarm clock though. I never bothered with alarms while I had him, he would have me awake at 7am on the dot for breakfast whether I liked it or not. I still miss that jerk.
 
Mine are the opposite of escapees. I built them a small cage in the living room, so that they can have hay in there and somewhere to pee (they poop everywhere) at floor time, but they hardly come out it. It's only 3ftx2ft, without a door and the three of them sit in there, do the odd zoomie round the living room and go back in.
Also, when I put them out on the lawn, I put out a fleece cat hidey in their run. When they've had enough grass, they all jump inside it and wait for me to pick it up to put them back in their cage. It's sooo much easier than trying to catch them all individually, so it suits me too. They are three boys btw, and they each have their own hideys in their regular cage, and they rumblestrut and bicker all day, so this bunking up together lark is definitely NOT their normal behaviour.
 
Beans&Toast said:
I'm sure Toast is part human, part dog and part guinea pig.

She follows me around the house everywhere like a puppy (they're free to roam) and waits by the front door for me finishing work. She will not allow anyone else to pet her or touch her (or even breathe near her) but she comes running to me when I call her name.
She will also eat anything and everything she finds lying about, clothes, rubber bands, the carpet... you name it she's ate it.

Beans sits by the fridge throughout the day, pacing back and forth hoping someone will give her food. If I don't give her any she'll run to me then back to the fridge as if to say "this way, human. Food!"

Guinea pigs are weird. :blink:
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I love the idea of a piggy pacing back and forth infront of the fridge!
 
Patchy thinks her name is Patchy and Coco and if I call Coco she will get so excited and pop corn all over the cage and wheek up a storm. She also wheeks at the wall at dinner time and when I am in front of the cage talking to her she must come up and drink from the water bottle and when I leave she goes back to eating hay or napping, I always say she is just showing her mummy how good she can drink water. She's a funny little thing lol.
 
Benji sounds like Linney... she ruled the other pig with an iron fist but was a huge wuss with the humans. She would not share lap time, we had to handle the two pigs separately. She apparently did not like the idea that her cagemate was seeing 'her' humans and would get aggressive to try to run them off.
 
I generally only give my guys grass from my back garden because I know there are no dogs peeing there. Technically urine is sterile but I still wouldn't chance it.
I don't wash it though because I presume their immune system is able to deal with with any germs insects may carry, since it is their natural diet.
 
She will also eat anything and everything she finds lying about, clothes, rubber bands, the carpet... you name it she's ate it.

My boy sunny tried to eat his new cage mats when I got them. I let a little shout at him to stop nibbling them and he ran off squeaking like a scolded child... hasn't nibbled them since haha!
 
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