diff --git a/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/load.mcfunction b/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/load.mcfunction
index 824c6eb..0e1df7e 100644
--- a/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/load.mcfunction
+++ b/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/load.mcfunction
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ scoreboard objectives add fennifith.animals_spawned dummy
 
 # create a new scoreboard tracking the "carrot_on_a_stick" statistic
 scoreboard objectives add fennifith.animals_carrot_stick minecraft.used:minecraft.carrot_on_a_stick
+
+# create a dummy objective to store unique pig entity ids
+scoreboard objectives add fennifith.animals_id dummy
diff --git a/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/tick.mcfunction b/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/tick.mcfunction
index 95d4174..3268cf3 100644
--- a/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/tick.mcfunction
+++ b/3-scoreboards/data/fennifith/functions/animals/tick.mcfunction
@@ -6,6 +6,3 @@ execute as @a if score @s fennifith.animals_carrot_stick matches 1.. run functio
 
 # set the "carrot_stick" score for all players to 0
 scoreboard players set @a fennifith.animals_carrot_stick 0
-
-# create a dummy objective to store unique pig entity ids
-scoreboard objectives add fennifith.animals_id dummy