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Hello everyone...

I am just wondering about something, whether or not other people have this problem and if so, is it common?!

I just gave the large herd of pigs their lunch after feeding the grand-pigs and Mocha and Wiiiiieek.

I opened the cage and Cinnamon literally chucked herself out onto the floor! She's not hurt but they're not stupid animals, they know there's a drop to the floor there from their cage - was she just over exited to be fed or something?

Marble and Toffee (2 of Cinnamon's daughters) have done this once before as well - could it be learned behaviour?

Luckily we have a deep-pile carpet and a rug so the floor is pretty soft and I'm going to have to be extra careful how I feed the largest herd but I just wonder why they would throw themselves out of the cage to fall 2 foot to the floor and bounce! My mum had a guinea pig that jumped off her sofa when I was little, was about a 15cm drop and she hurt herself so I don't want mine jumping out, especially falling an even greater distance! Cinnamon could have broken her leg or something!

I did ask her why she would do such a silly thing but she just looked at me with the "feed me!" face. Coconut is now washing her, she seems fine and she's already scoffed her lunch.
 
Rocky dived off the bed this morning! so i know how you feel i have to remind him that he's not a lemming!
 
Hello everyone...

I am just wondering about something, whether or not other people have this problem and if so, is it common?!

I just gave the large herd of pigs their lunch after feeding the grand-pigs and Mocha and Wiiiiieek.

I opened the cage and Cinnamon literally chucked herself out onto the floor! She's not hurt but they're not stupid animals, they know there's a drop to the floor there from their cage - was she just over exited to be fed or something?

Marble and Toffee (2 of Cinnamon's daughters) have done this once before as well - could it be learned behaviour?

Luckily we have a deep-pile carpet and a rug so the floor is pretty soft and I'm going to have to be extra careful how I feed the largest herd but I just wonder why they would throw themselves out of the cage to fall 2 foot to the floor and bounce! My mum had a guinea pig that jumped off her sofa when I was little, was about a 15cm drop and she hurt herself so I don't want mine jumping out, especially falling an even greater distance! Cinnamon could have broken her leg or something!

I did ask her why she would do such a silly thing but she just looked at me with the "feed me!" face. Coconut is now washing her, she seems fine and she's already scoffed her lunch.


I don't think it's learned behaviour, I think it's individual and some pigs just like to jump occasionally. Biscuit is a jumper and he and Caramel have known each other their whole lives. Caramel has never jumped once.

They're not stupid animals as you say but their emotions are expressed physically (e.g. popcorning and zooming). My guess is that jumping is an extension of this. I think some piggies cannot control the urge to jump for whatever reason - I don't think it's an intentional, premeditated action.
 
Haha, I dont think its learnt! I have one that will sit sooo happily in my lap for hours, but when you pick him to put him back he launches himself into the cage like you might kill him if he doesnt get back fast enough.

The other one does no such thing. :)
 
Rocky dived off the bed this morning! so i know how you feel i have to remind him that he's not a lemming!

Lol

She's always liked jumping around since she was a 6 week old pup when we got her. I have them out on the sofa and she scurries onto my shoulder, stares at OH for a while then jumps onto his belly. Then runs back up my arm and does it again quickly so I don't have the chance to stop her. That was 'ok' when she was a smelly little baby but she's a very big pig now, my heaviest out of the sows and she still does it if you're not quick enough to stop her - so her leaps are now followed by an "ooofff!" from OH haha!

I just seem to have naughty piggy-Kids and piggy-grandkids!

He's even started calling her "stunt pig".
 
One of my pigs is absolutely fine on the knee, but a moment's distraction, and he's worked out a way to jump up behind me onto the back of the sofa, run along to the other end, jump down to the arm, and then a two step jump down onto the floor, after which he high tails it off to his cage. Freaked me out the first time, but he's worked out where the cushions are so that he has a soft landing every time...
 
I had Hazelnut in a cosy on the benchtop once while I was getting vegies ready. As I leaned over he took a flying leap and ended up on my shoulder. When he & his cagemate have floor time in the bathroom I have to lay down towels because Hazelnut will not move on a non-fabric floor. One time I left a bath towel hanging on the towel rail in such a way that the bottom was nearly touching the floor. Hazelnut promptly tried to run up it like some cats do up curtains. This is my lazy boy but he certainly gets acrobatic at the oddest times.
 
I don't have jumpers. But when Latte was little, he did the oddest thing. While I was distracted, he jumped off the sofa. Luckily I was about a foot away from him. I reached out my hands and he landed in them. Silly piggie!:p
 
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