I didn't realise until recently that they could do this and it is the cutest thing ever. GP1 gets very excited at the prospect of treats and stands up when she hears us coming. Very clever of her too as it usually results in extra parsley.
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70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
11/12/2014 18:17
Ours do if theres food on offer
DD calls it "Bearing" they stand like a grizzly bear (well as grizzly as a guinea can be)
Our boar (mahoosive great lardy 3lb boar) can leap from the travel box. We take them out to the Pighouse and back, the side is a good 18" high. He gets angsty being kept in captivity he reckons. When I lift the lid he's poised on his hind legs and a couple of times he's leapt like a mighty Pegasus into the hay.
Don't underestimate their agility when they see fit 
dietcokeandwine ·
11/12/2014 20:01
Yes, ours do-our littlest one more than the other three-possibly because she has less piggy podge to hulk about. It's a great relief to me that she does it, though, as she's a satin (and therefore potentially prone to osteodystrophy for which there's no cure) so when she's demonstrating her agility in the pursuit of food it makes me very happy.
It makes our Tricolour pig rather less happy, cos she's also fond of standing on him to get in closer proximity to snacks 
70 - I love the expression 'bearing' Mind you my little satin girl looks nothing like a bear-more like Dougal from the Magic Roundabout!
70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
11/12/2014 21:05
Years ago we had a piggie who ran upstairs - she was a tiny little thing, I bought her mum and she was an added bonus
Ours are all getting bigger, they are a tad Weeble~esque , so they won't fall over (though they might rock themselves to sleep )
RandomMess ·
11/12/2014 21:07
Yes mine always did this, and they had a technique for sliding down the large back door step when they were making their way out of the house back to their hutch & run. They used to have to do a run and bunnyhop up it on the way in
fortifiedwithtea ·
12/12/2014 00:36
Millie stands up but not unaided , she walks herself up the wire of the hutch/run with her front paws. She does it when she sees a favourite treat coming her way.
Old Boy could climb stairs. There is a quarter turn at the bottom of ours and we often hang coats over the newel post. He used to climb the stairs to get nearer my 'guinea pig coat' the special one I wear for carrying pigs in/out of the garden and gardening in , it smelt of his piggy girlfriends and he wanted to get closer to it (randy little buggar) I had to remember not to be lazy and hang the coat up properly as of course he couldn't climb down.
This year the girls the girls will properly get a paper bag to play in and naice veg.
70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
12/12/2014 11:22
GP3 leaps out of the carry box to get away from his sows
Before he was sterile he'd sit by their cage and coooo like a dove or climb onto my lap if I had a piggie on my shoulder.
Not sure if it's familiarity breeding contempt (if that's the only breeding going on then that's good ) or the fact the ladyeez are so messy (I could tell when they were boar/sow apart that he was tidy and they weren't )
WyrdByrd ·
16/12/2014 21:22
They do for washing and occasionally if they're being nosey.
They also both jump - Bella is long jumper and will leap out of my arms into the piggypod (she doesn't like being carried). The first time I bathed them I put Luna in the kitchen sink and she leapt straight out again - a vertical jump of just over a foot 
!
They are getting spoilt for Christmas - DD has bought them a carrot & parsley roll, meadow grass, fruit sticks & some other treats. I have bought them each personalised towels (so DD stops using my decent bathroom towels as lap protectors 
). Am sorely tempted to get them a heat pad but not sure I can really justify spending any more on them, especially as DH hasn't got anything yet!
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