PITA pigs

January 6, 2010 by Shelley   Comments (1)

Why do some pigs INSIST on drinking by YANKING the bottle, lifting it with their teeth even?

I have a pair in one cage, the boar has managed to unhook the nearly full bottle twice today and flip it into the cage with a large thud. Good thing there's not like newborns to squish! I finally taped it down. I generally tape all the bottles down but after a few days of refilling the tape gets less sticky and/or chewed so i have to re-tape.

I was just watching said boar yanking on the bottle, flipping his head under the bottle, then yanking and drinking again. His older, wiser cagemate was reclining nearby, passively watching him. I could almost hear her warn him: "You're gonna bring the thing down on your head again!"

I have some that are VERY loud drinkers, they bang the bottles on the sides of the tubs when drinking, it gets REALLY annoying at 5am.  Then I have Messy Missy, I have named her that because she seems to spill about half her bottle and drink the other half.  I watched her drink once and she drinks with mouth open (hard to really explain), so that way her bedding gets soaked so much faster then the others, its annoying as I was trying to grow her out and she is a van, UGH!

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