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hi all well i have just gotten Smokey and Bandit out for some love and cuddles,
they aren't there usual selves and don't even want to run or play they havent moved or done anything for twenty minutes now its so out of character for them,i know they werent close to Boris but i can't think of what else it would be,Smokey I'm particuarly worried about as he is normally boisterous and darts whenever he can but he just looks so still,what should i do to help them be themselves? x
 
They know - they can feel that everybody is very down.

Whoever put it out that small animals are stupid creatures, didn't know the first thing about them!
 
They will be picking up on your emotions - upset by the atmosphere in the house. They'll be uncertain too - what has changed and how does it affect them? So they'll be quiet and less boisterous (prey animals) until they feel the atmosphere has returned to normal. So they'll be subdued until your grieving has run through the first stage and the noises around them are the normal ones again.

My Magenta died in the cage a couple of years ago in the early hours and I removed her at about 5am (the other piggies were trying to keep her warm). For the rest of her life the head piggie - Columbia - wouldn't let the others out first thing in the morning until I'd been up and about for at least ten minutes. She put together that her friend had gone because I'd taken her straight away first thing in the morning. They are not stupid at all.

Sarah x
 
yes i understand,i hope everything can settle for them soon,everything has changed from how it was yesterday,actually its scary but i usually sing to them when i take there food in but today i didnt as i was to upset maybe something that simple has upset them too,thanks for your help i will try to give them some extra love a reasurence and see how that goes x
 
When my gorgeous Lennie died last year in my arms, one of the girls in the top cage "sang" and all my pigs were very subdued for days afterwards. Even though Lennie lived alone (but next to the others) I am positive they knew one of their own had passed...
 
Anything that is different in their own routines will unnerve them a little, they will have noticed you didn't sing to them this morning. I too believe that every pig who lives in the same room as one who has passed, knows that one of their own is gone.

One of the reasons I feel Tuppy passed just eight days after Lottie was because the last of her original gang was gone. Charlie left nine months earlier, she never got over that, and of course once Lottie went Tup just seemed to slip right down. They lived in neighbouring cages and died "side by side", on their own side of the grid.

Your boys will soon figure out how to make you smile again. They will grieve with you...unless it is dinner time, of course. (They are piggies after all!) :))
 
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