My Pig Does Not Enjoy Floor Time

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I make sure to give my piglet Madeline ample floor time in either the foyer (blocked off so she can't escape to the rest of the condo) or a large bathroom because I don't want her to pee on the carpet. Anyway, I make sure has quite a bit of room and toys (tunnels, boxes, ramps, etc) but she tends to just stay in a corner. After a couple of hours, I will put her back in her cage and she will run in crazy fast circles! What am I doing wrong?

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Meghan
 
don't worry mine don't like it either, i think they find indoor noises just wrong as they run around like lunatics in the run outside
 
Once she is more confident, she will be running arond a lot more - saying that, some piggies prefer tohave a bit of r&r in the run and enjoy their surroundings :smitten:
 
From your post I gather you are keeping her alone? I would say that is the problem. She is probably too scared to do anything because she is all alone in new surroundings, and so keeps still in a corner. Once she is back in her cage she recognises the familiar smells etc and will be more active... She is probably just lonely and a bit scared.
 
they probably do feel safer with another piggy...but mine was a lone boar and gradually got used to it , that confident that he'd jump onto my lap for a cuddle.

patience is the key and like peter guerney says - dont tiptoe around as they need to recognise that us noisy humans arent a threat.
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Mine aren't too keen on floor time. I have 2 piggies and they get out together but only sometimes do they run about. I have tunnels/paper bags/food out for them but they all want to do is sit in the tunnel/bag and blether to each other - occasionally they will popcorn madly and runabout. :smitten:
 
Mine will run around and then just sit down for a while, if I sit on the floor with mine they will come and snuggle up to me, all mine are kept indoors.
I have the boys out 1st and then I get the girls out.
 
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