Little Ones
Forum Donator 2023/24
I hope this is the most appropriate section for this thread but I wasn’t sure!
I recently started university an hour away from home and I may have the opportunity to have my pigs come stay with me permanently. The place I live is very quiet and there’s no partying or anything that could stress the pigs out.
My only concern is that I stay at uni 4 and a half days a week and go home 2 and a half days a week.
Would it cause great stress on my boys if I took them home for the 2 days I’m there and then back to uni the other 4 days? I don’t want to cause them unnecessary harm nor create dominance behaviour between them.
Right now the pigs are living with my mum, she takes really good care of them however she isn’t the best when it comes to noticing that a pig is acting off.
Also, one of my boys is extremely clingy and so he’s not fairing too well without me - as soon as I get back home I have him on my lap where he’ll just lay and sleep for hours if I let him. My mum says he’s been getting quite jumpy and starting to refuse affection. My other pig is a recent rescue so he mainly only trusts me, he’s coping fine with my mum however he won’t allow her to pet him, he’ll just run and hide.
I don’t know how they’d cope with moving from cage to cage and I don’t want to make it harder on them.
My only other concern is that where I’m staying at university does weekly fire alarm checks. This is very loud for about a full minute as the alarms are in our rooms, it shakes me up every single time so I’m not sure how they’d cope with that either even if it is just once a week.
Any advice would be appreciated
I recently started university an hour away from home and I may have the opportunity to have my pigs come stay with me permanently. The place I live is very quiet and there’s no partying or anything that could stress the pigs out.
My only concern is that I stay at uni 4 and a half days a week and go home 2 and a half days a week.
Would it cause great stress on my boys if I took them home for the 2 days I’m there and then back to uni the other 4 days? I don’t want to cause them unnecessary harm nor create dominance behaviour between them.
Right now the pigs are living with my mum, she takes really good care of them however she isn’t the best when it comes to noticing that a pig is acting off.
Also, one of my boys is extremely clingy and so he’s not fairing too well without me - as soon as I get back home I have him on my lap where he’ll just lay and sleep for hours if I let him. My mum says he’s been getting quite jumpy and starting to refuse affection. My other pig is a recent rescue so he mainly only trusts me, he’s coping fine with my mum however he won’t allow her to pet him, he’ll just run and hide.
I don’t know how they’d cope with moving from cage to cage and I don’t want to make it harder on them.
My only other concern is that where I’m staying at university does weekly fire alarm checks. This is very loud for about a full minute as the alarms are in our rooms, it shakes me up every single time so I’m not sure how they’d cope with that either even if it is just once a week.
Any advice would be appreciated