[Gpdd] Fw: GPDD: (MISC) (Floor TIME, part two)

Ellen Garrison guineamom88 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 28 04:04:37 EDT 2013




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>Subject: GPDD: (MISC) (Floor TIME, part two)
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>My pigs are in cages throughout the room. I have no room on my sofa to sit, they are not on the floor.  I sit on the floor, sweep up a lot of hay. I do put them in a pen on the floor when I clean their cages. 
>For housing, whee use a guinea pig "habitat" made from rubberized canvas for the 3 sows that co-habit. The others are in rabbit cages, not super small "guinea pig" cages, which I think are insufficient. 
>It was last year or the year before, I had started a 2-part post to GPDD about Floor time.  Now-finally-this is part two. I normally do not let my pigs run around indoors. They use pens. I have a bigger pen with high sides, made of heavy wire, with a rubberized canvas component which may be used either for a roof or ground covering. I usually leave that out of the equasion, and just set up the folding wire enclosure,  which measures about 6 feet across. That's what I use for each chinchilla when they dust bathe. Pigs use it, too, and also a smaller pen... not letting the chins run around either except in the big pen. They have running wheels in each of their cages. 
>Some people thought I let the pigs just run around, but I don't. I have 9, and reached a limit in quantity. I am a clean person, who has lost her mind, Lol! 
>My son told me of a friend he had while a kid. The friend, a boy, had a pet rabbit. He lived with his dad, who didn't care if the rabbit dug holes in the boys' room and littered it, never cleaning it. The key is to let 'em know who is boss. My Darla bunny never bit, scratched or kicked me, but her mother, Tawny, did. Darla would just run away each time I tried to pick her up. 
>Thank you, Ellen and precious piggies
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