piggl
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My almost 5 year old boar, Winston, has started to hate my guts in the past few weeks and I do not know why (maybe dramatized, but something has changed).
When his friend passed away and I had to get him a new baby friend, for around 2 months they were coming out daily. This became routine because I didn't want him to get lonely in the absence of his friend and also so the new baby could get settled in with me. Most of our meetings consisted of them sitting on my lap eating their veggies, I respected them at all times and tried to make the meetings pleasurable for both me and them. This stopped/died down over the past month as I went on holiday and my life got busier, so now they come inside once or twice a week, but they still get picked up daily as my old boy is not the best at keeping himself clean and his young friend has an issue with eye crusties, almost like what humans get (?). This will last maybe a minute or two, depending on the day.
Once his friend passed away there was a big change in him being handled once a week at most aside from transporting them back and forth to the grass, to being handled and spoke to daily, but this behaviour was exhibited once the handling died down.
My boys live in a hutch in my garage, they get a run attached to the front daily and then it is closed up for night-time. As I said more recently he will teeth chatter whenever I come near.
In the morning when I open them up I like to sit in the front of their hutch and speak while doing some spot cleaning and he just does not like it. He will sit for a minute and then start teeth chattering while staring at me. This then continues when I come in once or twice to sit and speak to them or give them a treat in the garage, he will come up to me and take his treat but if I sit for too long without handing them the treat the chattering will start.
Tonight they were on my lap while eating their veg, and when he was without food in his mouth for around a minute he started teeth chattering again. I was not even looking at them at that point.
As I said he was never handled much until recently, and he has always been a nervous pig. I think he would prefer it if I never came near them again but I guess most piggies would. I understand some pigs react different when waiting for their treats/veg, but this is normally excitement and not anger. He allows me, he is obviously more comfortable around me than my new pig, I would hope so as I have had him since he was a baby, but he prefers to just live his own little life. The issue is that his want to live his own life has extended to never even being near me if he could decide.
I have noticed he is getting older, even though he is not that old, like he does not clean himself as well and he likes to lie down whenever he can. I am just wondering if there is anything I can do to stop this, so he can be more at ease and also as it is not the nicest feeling.
I apologise for how badly this is written, if anymore information would be helpful to make sense of this I would be more than happy to share, but I have tried to cover most relevant bases.
When his friend passed away and I had to get him a new baby friend, for around 2 months they were coming out daily. This became routine because I didn't want him to get lonely in the absence of his friend and also so the new baby could get settled in with me. Most of our meetings consisted of them sitting on my lap eating their veggies, I respected them at all times and tried to make the meetings pleasurable for both me and them. This stopped/died down over the past month as I went on holiday and my life got busier, so now they come inside once or twice a week, but they still get picked up daily as my old boy is not the best at keeping himself clean and his young friend has an issue with eye crusties, almost like what humans get (?). This will last maybe a minute or two, depending on the day.
Once his friend passed away there was a big change in him being handled once a week at most aside from transporting them back and forth to the grass, to being handled and spoke to daily, but this behaviour was exhibited once the handling died down.
My boys live in a hutch in my garage, they get a run attached to the front daily and then it is closed up for night-time. As I said more recently he will teeth chatter whenever I come near.
In the morning when I open them up I like to sit in the front of their hutch and speak while doing some spot cleaning and he just does not like it. He will sit for a minute and then start teeth chattering while staring at me. This then continues when I come in once or twice to sit and speak to them or give them a treat in the garage, he will come up to me and take his treat but if I sit for too long without handing them the treat the chattering will start.
Tonight they were on my lap while eating their veg, and when he was without food in his mouth for around a minute he started teeth chattering again. I was not even looking at them at that point.
As I said he was never handled much until recently, and he has always been a nervous pig. I think he would prefer it if I never came near them again but I guess most piggies would. I understand some pigs react different when waiting for their treats/veg, but this is normally excitement and not anger. He allows me, he is obviously more comfortable around me than my new pig, I would hope so as I have had him since he was a baby, but he prefers to just live his own little life. The issue is that his want to live his own life has extended to never even being near me if he could decide.
I have noticed he is getting older, even though he is not that old, like he does not clean himself as well and he likes to lie down whenever he can. I am just wondering if there is anything I can do to stop this, so he can be more at ease and also as it is not the nicest feeling.
I apologise for how badly this is written, if anymore information would be helpful to make sense of this I would be more than happy to share, but I have tried to cover most relevant bases.