Running in circles?

[SophandRufus]

One of my Guinea pigs spends hours a day running in circles around the cage...is their an explanation for this? Ta

 

[HairlessWillow7]

Hmmm, do they have a head tilt? Maybe they have some inner ear problems. You could have the vet check for that. Hopefully your piggy is just being silly

 

[Little Piggles]

Marmite has recently discovered how much fun it is to run in laps of her pen! Boris still does this sometimes too. With mine it's just a case of a mad half hour

Is your pig running laps like this or in small, tight circles?

 

[doglovinpiggylover]

oscar did this last night after we put two more levels in their cage :{ nutter

 

[Freela]

Is it a young pig? Could she just be burning off energy? I know when my pigs were young (especially really young!) they would run laps of the cage and laps of the hallways during free time... as fast as they could, with sharp turns on the corners, popcorning, etc. They just had so much energy and were having fun! As they got closer to a year they would settle down and not tear around in all directions for no apparent reason.

 

[squeeksmom]

Toffee does this a lot, especially when I've cleaned the cage, and they have clean fleece and fresh hay. Then he will even run in circles around Squeek, silly thing.

 

[CiaraPatricia]

Sometimes they do that for fun!

 

[sandra turpin]

My snowball does it for fun