Roger confused me for the first time in a year...

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Looking for some insight on what could be going on. For the second night in a row, during floor time he shrieked his head off like he was in pain for no apparent reason. I ran over to him both times and saw nothing unusual. He wasn't being harrased by another pig, didn't appear to be struggling to pee or poo, but just screamed in a frantic way like something was wrong. He did something similar when he was very young, but it was obvious then that he was calling for Piglet (he was very attached to him when he was a baby ). But now i have no idea what is going on. Any insights?
 
Wasn't chirping was it...?

Can't remember who put a video of it up not that long ago...@) I'll have a little surf for it...
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Is it definately a pain shriek? Jem will often do a mixture of a wheek and an alarm call randomly in the middle of the pen. He appears to do it for no reason ?/ I ask him 'what's the matter!' in the baby voice most of us use for our piggies! and he talks back to me, its funny :)) I read somewhere that instinct to chirp or alarm call comes over them now and then, and they cant resist. Its something they would have done in the wild but don't really need now.
 
Is it really pain or has something (or a memory of something) spooked him? Has he got someplace to hide in the run?
 
One of mine, Flinn does this, not a shriek, just manic wheeking for no reason but he is a whingy pig, grumbles and hoots over anything and nothing. He was hooting the other day and I thought something was wrong but he was just struggling to get in his cosy rolleyes

Maybe its a sound or smell? Something that spooks him?
You might think this sounds mental but animals have a sixth sense, maybe he's picking up on something that you can't see or hear if you get my meaning?
 
It is really really loud and both times made me jump up and rush over to him. He doesn't have pigloos but there are bar stools that cast shadows that they like to hide under (they run around in a piggy safe area in the basement). I could put the pigloos out if you think it would help. And it's definitely not chirping, it's frantic loud shrieking which made me think he was either really scared or in pain. I am really at a loss.
 
I think it sounds like something is freaking him out, maybe put the pigloos in, that way he has somewhere he feels safe and that smells of home?
 
oh bless him. One of my gerbils will, for no apparent reason at all, start to drum his feet on the floor as a warning of danger. I thought I had made him jump or moved suddenly. But yesterday I was feeding them and he was quite happy but then went into panic mode....?/
 
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