Wheeking the house down!

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Hi all

Sorry I haven't been very active for a while, I have been absolutely snowed under both at home and work... Just starting to get my head above water...

As you may know, we adopted baby Frank of Hels about 5 or 6 ago. He's lovely and quite cuddly once you can catch him! mallethead He and big boy Finlay seem to be getting on fine so all is rosey in the house of M.

The only trouble is, Frank thinks he can just wheek any time of day or night and he is so loud for such a small creature... Don't take me wrong, I'm not complaining that he does, but it is really loud. He's conditioned to wheek any (I mean ANY) time he hears the fridge door, the chopping board, rustling noises, etc... I am trying to get him used to not ahving food every time he does it so he can understand that he's not in charge of the feeding rota rolleyes.

I'd like to know what more experienced members think of this... Any similar experiences? Is he likely to calm down with age or should I buy shares at the local ear-plugs factory? :))

He behaves like a spoilt piglet... The difference between him and the kids I teach is that I can't reason with him...:)) he'll wheek with his mouth full, usually hidden behind the pigloo mallethead, at any time (I'm sure he woke my mother up this morning...).
 
I'm not sure my piggies a soon as i open door in morn they know it food time nd sqweek even at night,,,unless its not the food he after mayb he just wants attention or something only guesses sorrymallethead
 
don't be sorry, I just wanted to know if other people had the same issues, which you have, reassuring really! :)
 
I think it must be a 'Wirral' Pig thing. PeeWiz (with Piper) who was adopted by a family on the Wirral had the loudest, longest Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek, you have ever heard. Maybe Frank can hear him all the way from West Kirby, and he is responding. I just love it. Frank sounds like my kind of pig! lol x
 
I have 12 very spoilt piggies i cant even speak outside before they all start :)) Even opening the gate or back door starts them off! I need to get some ear plugs :)) Gotta love them though i think it must drive my neighbours mad as well ha ha ha!
 
Bandit does this but only for food or the chopping board,he is so loud you can hear him all throug the house,but i have no advice on how to stop it as i thought it was cute so i chat back to him when he does it now lol
 
I had the same problem with Mischief, who combined the lungs of a Maria Callas and the orphan appeal worthy of a Westend Oliver Twist with a black hole in the middle of her body. No cure - except that the house was ghostly quiet after she died...

She managed to make herself rather unpopular with one lady, who was minding her during a holiday, when she alerted the whole household to said lady's nightly habit of tucking into crisp bags and secret trips to the fridge...
 
My Matilda is the loudes wheeker out of my gang. I love hearing them wheeks and often wonder what sets them wheeking during the night. Enjoy the wheeks. You must have a very happy piggy!
 
as soon as my two hear me open door in morning for feeding they are off and when i come though back gate bless
 
it's just he seems to have only one type of wheek... I removed Fin from cage a few minutes ago and that set him off.

When I got home tonight (late from work) he started as soon as I was in the living room. My parents, who are staying with us ATM said he'd said nothing all day... Cheeky floof, he knows who feeds him! :))

I don't dislike it, I quite like it, I was just worried he was distressed without me realising it becuase he wheeks the same when he's on his own...
 
My Piggies do this, well only the girls. Mirtle when she was pregnant, used to squeal the loudest. Infact I once put food in her pen and she lunged at the food before I could even put the dish down.

Patch her baby, now squeals the loudest for food. If she thinks I have forgotton, she starts whistling me back!

I have found the two things that set them off - lettuce and rustling of bags!
 
Frank is a little tinker! :))

Guess, he is like a young child. The more fuss that he makes, the more attention he gets. Funny though, he was quiet all day while you were out and your parents were there.

Perhaps he can smell you ... please don't take that personally :... but piggies have a very good sense of smell. Your perfume perhaps?

Mine usually will only wheek when it is veggie or fruit time late afternoon. It can be the back door that sets them off, the noise of a plastic bag or even my flip-flops flipping or flopping :)):))
 
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