Wiiiiieek!
Teenage Guinea Pig
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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.
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.