Mean pig

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Oct 19, 2009, 1:23:01 PM10/19/09

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My daughter's pig has gotten nasty lately. In fact, you can't pick it
up without getting bit. She's huge (the pig, not my daughter), almost
the size of a football. She's so big it's hard to pick her out of her
cage.

I don't know what to do about it. My daughter still says she likes
her, but everyone in the family is afraid of her.

Any advice?
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kelvyn

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Oct 20, 2009, 3:31:43 AM10/20/09

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Is this a guinea pig or a pig pig? I have never heard of one as big as
a football!
kelvyn.

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Oct 20, 2009, 9:04:12 AM10/20/09

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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:31:43 -0700 (PDT), kelvyn
<kelvyn...@gmail.com> puked:

>Is this a guinea pig or a pig pig? I have never heard of one as big as
>a football!
>kelvyn.

It's a guinea pig. And it's close to the size of a football. Not
such a good combination with mean.

Nicole de Jong

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Oct 20, 2009, 1:33:12 PM10/20/09

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Usually when a piggy bites, there's something more going on. It might be
she in pain for some unknown reason and getting picked up hurts her. The
fastest way for her to make you put her down is to give you a knibble.

We had this once with a pig that suffered from kidneystones. Once the
vet solved to problem, lifting the pig up no longer was a problem...

Good luck,

Michel

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Oct 20, 2009, 3:35:26 PM10/20/09

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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:33:12 +0200, Nicole de Jong
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Well this one bites you while you're putting food in the cage. One
way or another this is gonna have to come to an end.

Michel Oosterbeek

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Oct 21, 2009, 9:48:15 AM10/21/09

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Did you get this pig as a baby, or were there some "previous owners"?

We currently have one pig who was rescued from a serious case of animal
cruelty (it even made the news). And although it's been more then a year
ago, sometimes this pig gets stressed for appearantly no reason...

Michel

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Michel Oosterbeek

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Oct 21, 2009, 9:51:37 AM10/21/09

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Also, it could still be the pig is in pain for some reason. When you
open the cage, the foresight of being picked up might make the pig
choose to "scare you off".

Michel

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Oct 22, 2009, 10:56:56 AM10/22/09

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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:48:15 +0200, Michel Oosterbeek <n...@nospam.nl>
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>Did you get this pig as a baby, or were there some "previous owners"?
>
>We currently have one pig who was rescued from a serious case of animal
>cruelty (it even made the news). And although it's been more then a year
>ago, sometimes this pig gets stressed for appearantly no reason...

Nah, we had it since it was a baby. I'm really starting to regret
getting it. I guess I could pick it up (!) and gently poke around to
see if it hurts somewhere, but it seems like once she's in your hands
she's fine.

I really think she's just plain mean. Anyone ever "fix" a pig like
this?

Brad

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Oct 22, 2009, 1:08:35 PM10/22/09

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It could be that the big guinea pig is way overweight. I have three
guinea pigs from the same litter (today is their fourth birthday 10/22).
I spoil them with lots of food; that they have grown to be big. They
are not mean, but hate to be picked up. I had been told to put them on
a diet, to make them feel better and healthier. So maybe the hugeness
of their weight is a factor of there meanness. or they just want to be
extremely terrioritorial.

lab~rat >:-)

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Oct 26, 2009, 1:04:35 PM10/26/09

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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:08:35 -0500, Bradl...@webtv.net (Brad)
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Well that's a possibility. Proportionally she seems to look fine.
It's just that she's huge. And long.