Sunday, November 6, 2011

Games To Play With Your Guinea Pig

We love inventing games to play with our humans (such as our favorite, "Capture The Receipt"), but this post is dedicated to games humans can play with us. Perhaps you've read that you can put objects in your pig's cage to enrich their environment, such as empty tissue paper boxes. But there are more interactive games you can play with us, too.

One such game is "Sniff Out The Treats", and it is our absolute new favorite game. Here's how it goes: you, the humans, place a favorite treat in strategic places around the room. Then, let us out of our cage and watch as we forage to sniff out the good stuff! Just be sure that there aren't any hazards in the room, such as cords, wires, or papers. We might nibble at those, too, if they're available.

Why do we love this game so much? We guinea pigs love to forage. It's an intense instinct that we have. There's no sport in finding food in our cages, but when you hide it around the room and let is find it, it's great fun and good exercise.

Today was the first day that the humans played this game with us. We are let out of our cage for about an hour each day to get exercise, and we always use this time to explore and forage for anything on the floor that the humans might have missed. You can't imagine our joy when we manage to find a stray piece of hay under a chair or desk.

So when we were let out to roam today, we we so pleased to discover that the humans had hid four piles of CareFresh Complete guinea pig food around the room!

It didn't take us long to find them all and eat them.

8 comments:

  1. Awwww, that's so cool! :O Maybe I should try that out with my piggies (we are getting girls this week-end!) but I'll hide twiggies: small animal treats flavours: Corrot red beet and lucerne... some hay, some parsley etc.

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  2. My piggies are very shy, and they usually just hide. Lil Fuzzy goes under the bed, which makes it a huge pain to get her back out.

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  3. My piggies are very shy, and they usually just hide. Lil Fuzzy goes under the bed, which makes it a huge pain to get her back out.

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    1. Our humans can usually bribe us out of our hiding places with more food. :-)

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  4. That is sooo cool! I will definitely do this with my piggy!!!

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  5. i love games with my girl nibbles but instead i make a maze out of card board and drag the treat and she follows

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