Imaginative ways to exercise my piggy, Snuggles!

[wendyngd]

Hi-

I would love to hear all the different ways all of you give your piggies exercise!

I know that the piggy books all say you have to get them out of the cage once a day to give them exercise but sometimes when I get home from a long day of work, I'm too tired to set up his little playpen and our apt. is too small to leave it up all the time.

(When I do put him in the playpen with toys, like when I'm cleaning out the cage, sometimes it seems like he's tolerating it till I put him back!!)

So what I taken to doing is kind of "having relay races" in his sizable cage! Whether I take a long piece of toilet (loo) paper or paper towel and "tease him" with it or roll his wicker ball around the cage, he usually ends up getting some exercise and playtime out of it, too. And he makes me laugh watching and playing with him.

He actually did laps around the cage one day pushing his ball!!! I also try to challenge him with how I fill his hanging wire basket with the bell with many types of veggies which he has to jump and bat at to get them out to eat.

He greets me most mornings paws up to the side of the cage, on his back legs, singing to me to feed him! He will also push the wire veggie cage with his nose a few times as if to remind me to fill it in case I forgot!!

So love to all and I look forward to hearing those stories.

Thanks. Wendy

P.S. How nice so much of the world is able to join together at the Summer Olympics at this time! We're all brothers and sisters anyway--citizens of this planet. Cheers.

[pigmadsarah]

hi

I have a few runs in the garden for my gang and they all take turns to play out with tubes to run and hide in ect. If it rains i have little pens in the shed they can spend time playing in.

Not exercise but they have lap time watching the tv with us he he !!

sarah xx

[meggiepiggy]

Years ago we had one of those piggies who was definitely a bit special.

Her name was Hazel and she lived in a hutch in our utility room.
At certain times of the day we would leave the hutch door open as well as the doors into the kitchen and hallway.

She would roll out of her hutch and literally gallop as fast as she could across the kitchen and up the hall to the front door, sometimes only just stopping in time before she hit the door. Then she would turn round and race all the way back again.

We were always amazed at just how fast she could go