[Gpdd] [CARE]re: Cavy behaviour and sounds

[BARRINGER JAMIE MAE]

My piggies started out really wild, biting and chattering at me every time
I picked them up. So I started wearing overly long sleeved cotton sweaters
or denim shirts so that if they do bite, they have a harder time breaking
the skin. I can ball the ends of the sleeves over my hands to keep from
having my fingers nibbled and to keep from getting piggy urine from their
feet on my hands directly when I pick them up. They also like the sleeves
because they are soft and can be nibbled. (Brunhilde is vision impaired
and likes to investigate things orally.  Well, for that matter they all
like investigating things orally, I suppose.) They are also a lot happier
being held when I have on a sweater they can cuddle up with on my lap.
Their favorite texture is chenille, which feels really good on their feet.

-Jamie B. with Brunhilde, Gus, Sonja and Max

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 l.chin at ugrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> My babypig has been making squeaky sounds walking around the apartment
> carpet, sniffing the eucalyptus oil i sprayed on earlier to get rid of
> mites and fleas; these sounds sounded 'neutral' - like a 'gee everything
> sounds ok, i wonder what that is, ha this stink what is this'. However
> when I pick her up, she will start to struggle and try to bite me, and
> chatter her teeth. I tried everything in soothing her - i played
> classical music, stroked her fur gently, hugged her against my chest so
> she would feel warm and secure, fed her baby spinach (this girl is
> getting spoilt, i buy gourmet leaves for her). but she still looks tense
> and bunched up, hair on end. and tries to scurry up my hair to hide.
> this time i got worried when babypig went missing and i finally found
> her under the bedside table (which incidentally is very low) - I tried
> coaxing her out of there with baby carrots - no luck. so I stuck my hand
> in, and heard the supposed 'laptalk' in an 'ANGRY' tone. Hurt, I tried
> to scoop her out from under, resulting in a few nasty bites on my
> finger & thumb.
>
> - li
>
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