First off, hamsters and capybaras are S tier creatures, so don't get me wrong on this.
I'm talking exclusively guinea pigs here.
Why are they so frustratingly stupid?
Name me one other creature who is so stupid that if you didn't know any better, you'd think the video were buffering or that they grew up playing Counter-Strike on a dial-up modem.
If eagles and cats are playing life as a real-time strategy, guinea pigs are playing life as a turn-based strategy -- one in which each move is "make one step forward at a time."
How did such a creature exist this long and not get erased from the gene pool for being so utterly incompetent?
Seriously I WANT a Guinea Pig Supremacist to fix my opinion on these awful creatures because frankly I don't understand how ANYONE would want one as a pet, let alone how they managed to not be bred out of existence by now.
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My lil guy who fell asleep
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Attention everyone. Here is a picture of my beloved dude.
He's a bit stinky but very affectionate.
Look at that sleepy pig with floppy ears and wiggly whiskers
Why do they put them in with the bunnies?
Had em both in their outside enclosure today, to enjoy some early spring sun.
I should have called them Yin and Yang.
They’re so precious
Hamsters, guineas, capybara, hell even rabbits or bunnies all have the same moron level intelligence and don’t really show much affection for you. They’re all shit tier rodents.
Capy is cute but they literally just sit comatose and shit excessively whereever you put them. You may as well get a statue.
but… but… my wholesome rodentrinos… ok I pull up….
NOOO PULL DOWN, PULL DOWN!!!
>his guinea pigs never showed him affection
🙁
Piggies can comprehend death and are capable of mourning their pig friends (some even die of grief).
Also the pic rel is not a dead pig, that is a pig stretching on his tummy because he’s hot or tired
Love these lil piggas.
Such a chunk, all piggies deserve to be chunky and happy
I still struggle to understand how you can get so fat from a diet of hay and veggies alone.
They were originally bred to be eaten not to be pets
silkie pigs look like the kind of pet a magical fantasy princess would have
How could you hate them?
cus they suck
Brown hands typed this.
*Aryan hands
*brown hands
*Hyperborean fingers
their lips look gay
Captive bred Herps are more stupid.
theyre basically moronic and thats why i love them
they replaced their brain with cuteness
So i hope Wauf can be Wauf here there is this guy who broke a rabbits legs so that it was hopeless against a boa snake here is a link to the only video with some of his house https://youtube.com/shorts/SghP5qQTSUQ?si=JsrlgzT28dhROfdU Wauf you know what to do
homie this ain't the rabbit thread. But yeah, snakegays get the rope.
/herp/ isn’t going to like this one…
/herp/ and /ret/ are natural enemies, we have no sympathy for them and murder them on sight
nypa
On that topic, I'm kind of surprised that Guinea Pigs have mostly been spared from live feeding type videos. The majority are either those frog eating hamster ones from japan or rabbit related ones.
beautiful creatures
>First off, hamsters and capybaras are S tier creatures
>hamsters
>S tier creatures
i aint a lizard gay but hamsters are some of the worst pets out there
>hamsters and capybaras are S tier creatures
No, they aren’t, one is a meme animal with a life span of one year and the other is an overgrown rodent that looks like a dog but oversimplified
Not to mention it’s just asking for near instant heartache on the off chance you get attached to it
true ngl thats is just sad
>other is an overgrown rodent that looks like a dog but oversimplified
thats an understatement
They were bred (and inbred) to be a food source.
>How did such a creature exist this long and not get erased from the gene pool for being so utterly incompetent?
Will guinea pigs are much more fit for survival in the wild. The ones we domesticated are the moronic ones. A tale as old as time. Look a pugs. There's absolutely no reason something like that should ever exist in the wild but, here we are.
the thing I hate about Guinea Pigs is that every single guinea pig I've ever seen has an expression of pure terror. as if they've seen something so horrifying that they are in a permanent state of abject fear
If you were smart, you'd look the same way.
cute
Well yeah, they are prey animals. They expect death from above from ANY TIME!
Though if you have one of your own (and you're lucky) they may calm down enough for you to experience them NOT bugging out. Like actually sleeping with their eyes closed. That's supposed to be a sign that they truly feel comfortable and safe.
giwtwm
God why are they so lovable? I love them so goddamn much. I’ve slowly earned the trust of one with serious gastric issues, might be mega colon. I treated him for it because he thrives with treatment. He’s been my buddy for 6 years. He pig-barrels over to my shoulder when I get near him. When he’s out of the cage he follows my feet around and seems to want to know what’s going on all the way up at my eye level. Special creature
Humans are the only thing keeping them from going instinct at this point
is the grey one pregnant
They have taught me unconditional love, so I can say no more about their flaws except to accept them, if you want. Pic rel xrayed for gas and shit that was stuck in my pig.
They do shit a lot and preferably right where they sit all day. But they're so cute nevertheless.
if only they would use a designated shittig place, they shit and piss wherever, would make the cleanup much easier, other than that i really like them
Please don’t release them into the wild
The stupidity is cute. Also the noises they make are incredibly soothing and relaxing for some reason. I don't own any Guinea Pigs but I can imagine it would be quite nice to have them wheeking in the background.
When they bite the cage bars it's extremely annoying but otherwise hearing them squeak is very epic.
The munching, casual conversations with each other, and mumbling to themselves are all comforting
Does anyone else have guinea pigs that make a submissive chattering noise? It's not wheeking or purring, but liek, they stand still and make repeated "squeek... squeek.... squeek" noises kinda quietly. They usually do it after two of them fight for dominance and one "wins" and the loser just stays still and does that. One time the pig who "lost" just sat there and made that noise and the aggressor pig kept ramming into it. I
Pain
I love guinea nigs
Love piggies, hug piggies, roundhouse kick carrots into their cages, slam dunk pea flakes into their bowls, cuddle scared piggies, kisses onto a piggies head, feed a pregnant piggie healthy pellets, make piggies popcorn, hold piggies like babies, launch fresh grass into their cages, catapult peppers into floor time
TOTAL PIGGY LOVE
>Name me one other creature who is so stupid
Don't want to sound like /misc/ here but : leftists.
But leftists aren't cute and won't let you pet them. They will make some excuse to why they have an "ick" about you and want you gone based on the facts of you being straight or not addicted to the internet.
Guinea pigs: 1
Leftists: 0
Wheek wheek liberals!
Captcha: gg2kn0 (guinea pigs are kino)
Leftists can’t resist a Guinea pig owner. Guinea pig is the perfect quick dopamine rush they all feed off of, as long as they don’t have to do the service of taking care of them.
Do not politicise the piggies.
They look cute and like to be petted. That's pretty much all you need from a pet of that size. It's not like you could train other rodents to run useful errands for you or do any housework. They are just cute entertainment.
this, idk why everyone thinks a pet has to do stuff
it's just rationalization dislike/hate
*rationalization of
They're as delicious as they are adorable, too.
Holy shit, I assure you, nobody cares.
Help me Wauf
I got a couple of pigs a few weeks ago. I noticed one of them developed a tiny abscess on its whisker. Should I take it to the vet? They are still young + I don't want to stress them out.
Are there home remedies to help him out?
Abscesses are pretty common if it is an abscess. But they can get infected in their mouths and can lump outward like that. I’d take him to the vet to make sure it doesn’t get badly infected since it’s on the face near susceptible eyes/mouth area. They’ll probably drain it and check his teeth then send home with baytril or another antibiotic
Rate my dude
10 baby carrots out of 10
6.5/10
homie is something out of a pixar film
0/10 FRICK your shitty hamster
Frick you, Bibo is goat.
I've had a few over the years
-First was kept in a small cage alone, not real personality and hated other pigs
-Second was a neutered male. He was playful and had a decent personality
-Third was a very smart one and would communicate when she wanted to be held, would nibble when she had to pee/poop to get back in the cage, and then would chirp when she was done
>last one was kinda standoffish and constant prey mindset would wheek to be held, but run away into a hide when you walked to to the cage. ironically, she would never run away when my son would be playing/jumping around her cage, only when adults would come near
Your entire post is literally "guinea pig Stoopid, whai?
Fricking moron, don't ever shit talk Guinea pigs again, your own mental capacity is not enough to warrant such behavior
Ginea pigs are dumb as shit and massive cowards. No wonder they get used as well guinea pigs. Totally helpless losers.
Imagine being this jealous of the cavia porcellus
>freezes, stares
idiot.
I like cute things.
My landlord had four of these little demons, screaming like air sirens at the slightest provocation. I wanted to fry them like Peruvians do.
Hungry pigs break the sound barrier
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it's such a distinct noise they make. When I had piggies when they heard that I had woken up they would do the usual wheeking and then very very loudly chew on their hay cage letting out this loud metal sound. Odd thing was that it was specifically morning thing and there was no cage chewing during evening meal time.
Intelligence between a rat and a rabbit
They’re smart enough to be effective at being guinea pigs. That’s a low bar of course, it doesn’t take a lot of brains to look cute and be petted, but they’re as smart as they need to be.
One nice thing about them is they don’t need a cage. They’ll respect a symbolic 6” wall, they could hop out anytime they want but they never do. I keep mine in a folding industrial spill tray when we’re travelling and it’s pretty handy.
Humans.
Domestication turns animals into cute docile abominations.
One thing I've always wondered is why humans domesticate animals to have the splotchy black and white cow pattern. You see it with domesticated mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, cats, dogs, etc
iinm, it just happens as a natural consequence of domestication. At least it does in dogs, cats, horses and foxes
look up domestication syndrome
multicolor patterns get filtered out by predators in nature, theyre easier to spot, their genetic lines get eliminated naturally
These things are fricking delicious. I wish people had told me about cuy sooner. It's like the best dark meat chicken I've ever had.
I want to try it, but the only way to get some here is to get a pet one and butcher it, but I assume pet lines are not good for meat, and while I have killed my own meat in several occasions before, I'm not comfortable with butchering one that was born to be a pet.
Do you have any Peruvian restaurants in your area? I found one that has a cuy as a special once a year. Finally was able to get there when I was on the menu. Bunch of old Peruvian ladies thought it was interesting a white guy was coming in to try guinea pig. They told me about some of the traditions surrounding eating it back home.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvxkya/look-for-the-lucky-bone-when-eating-a-guinea-pig-head
The "pet lines" only became pet lines when they were brought to europe. In the Andees, all breeds are eaten (or used for divination and medicine). The big meat breeds
are just higher yield. Like other places have really big and fast growing chickens, pigs or cows. Doesnt mean the smaller breeds are only pets.
There's some special colours and fur styles in european genetics, but they are not fundamentally different from what gets served con papas in peru.
I would try true cuy if I didn’t have Guinea pigs.
>pet lines
There’s a general breed for meat called cuy, they are much larger than the ‘domestic guinea pig’. They usually have extra toes for some reason
Yeah, there is zero chance I can get this here. Well.
That pic has that woman stretching her arms out as far as fricking possible for those archetypal "giant rat" artical pieces. Fake and gay.
Yea it is forced perspective. This is a large guy even for one bred for food. Cuy are still pretty big tho
forgot pig
well they are rodents after all.
>extra toes
that's a sign of amateur breeding, it happens when one does not control their lines properly and they inbreed. Red eyes are for the same reson.
Once I had a pig with an extra pair of nipples, although they were very thin and I doubt they were usable. Is that also a sign of shit breeding?
yeah pretty much
Tasted like rabbit when I had it. I'm not big on rabbit except for in saucy dishes because the meat is so lean.
I had it in an "Italian" restaurant in Philadelphia. The owners are Ecuadorean who happened to be of Italian descent and most of what they cooked was completely foreign to me as someone from Italy.
That looks absolutely great.
I hate guinea pigs with a passion. Dont know why. They just enrage me.
Loafapiggy
Loafin
look at these CUTE FRICKS!
What do they actually do though? Besides sit there and look cute? What utility is there to owning a guinea pig?
? They’re not tools, they need taking care of and you take care of them. In return they give you trust snuggles, kisses, and share their personality with you
you have domestication syndrome
theyre just small animals tricking your brain with their baby like features
I think it's fascinating how domesticated guinea pigs are. They don't wheek in the wild yet somehow learned to do so to get humans to give them food, and even react to the rustling of bags. Gotta give the mayans credit for domesticating them for thousands of years. Meanwhile hamsters were only domesticated for 80 years and act like total buttholes
>maya
Anon... the maya lived in central america. Where do guinea pigs come from?
the various tribes of the andes mountains during the early human settlement of south america
Boiling it down like that doesn’t change anything though.
>you have domestication syndrome
You have being alive syndrome, it's just cascading chemical reactions in your brain steering your behavior to make you write something as Reddit-tier as this.
They’re also an interesting study, the secrets of Guinea pig. We know they form complicated social orders. Males have different roles in the herd depending on status and personality. Some males prefer not to bond with other males at all and form a female harem. Some piggies
become so bonded that if one dies, the other goes through pining, depression and can die from grief. Females are less aggressive but still form their own chains of command. Get a group of them together in one area and it’s interesting to watch. They all share Guinea pig language, as in from body language to all the little different sounds they make. They’re not “smart” or “useful” but it is fun to watch them at it. Your influence on them can change their personality. They discover things like a dumb child, except it’s throughout their entire life arc.
>We know they form complicated social orders.
I fricking can't holy shit, I mean I totally believe it, it's just...
We had a few piggies some while ago. Some of them were surprisingly smart. And agile. One hopped around her pen to get to the upper levels and get to the food we stored up there.
Frick man, i miss my pigs...
piggers
When properly bred they tend to be smarter and live longer. But they are largely inbred for mass sales at pet stores and that's the main reason why they're dumb as shit. But like any animal, no matter how dumb they are you tend to grow attached to them the longer you have them, and they grow attached to you too. I cried like a b***h when each of mine died.
Here's how smart a pig technically can be:
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i had an idea to make a giant frick off shelf with a rodent habitat in it. i want it to be like the size of a large bookshelf or a wall. of course it has to be smaller than a door, but i might build it in the display room.
either way, what species should I display? im thinking dwarf hamsters or gerbils. I wanna just like, have a colony. see them make more, but still have plenty of space. lots of tubes, and i'll just drop food in one little part of it.
Ants
dwarf hamsters are highly territorial so there is a good chance half your colony will cannibalize the other half
you should go with mongolian gerbils because they live in a group and they are very active so it's fun to watch. hamsters will frick off in the corner if you are near them and they will eat each other alive
be sure to post some pics in /ret/
Do they taste good? Is it worth buying one to eat it? I'd be nervous about eating an animal from a pet store.
>Entire OP is just bideo game comparisons
My problem with guinea pigs is that rats live for like 2 years while those jerkfaces can push 10 if well cared for.
Imagine if gorillas regularly lived to be 500 while you're stuck with your shitty ass human lifespan.
Wait, are fluffies based on guinea pigs?
The descriptions itt are a perfect match to what you see in fluffy abuse comics.
Sorry to derail the thread, I just had a huge fricking realization.
Lol yep.
I thought they were based on a certain franchise that has their own containment board here
my mother got 2 guinea pigs for herself the other month
they seem pretty afraid when they're handled (to clean their cage)
how could I make them more trusting and okay with being held?
Food. But they don't enjoy being held in my experience and tolerate it at best. They are willing to climb on hands, but prefer to keep their hind legs on the ground.
Guinea pigs, like most animals, can be won over by food and patience.
what the frick was his problem?
>Name me one other creature who is so stupid that if you didn't know any better, you'd think the video were buffering or that they grew up playing Counter-Strike on a dial-up modem.
Koalas.
They are bred to be your friend and not to be afraid of you and cuddle with you :3 they are easy to get friendly with and very therapeutic pet, that's why they lack survival instincts
They were traditionally kept in pens with just a short board blocking the door. All the ones that were smart and athletic enough to climb or hop a 25cm barrier escaped and left the gene pool for domesticated cuys.
The ones that didnt manage the easiest prison escape imaginable for hundred of generations formed to stock of what we have now.
Nothing wrong with the peej
>hamsters are S tier creatures
shut your prostitute mouth
Your guinea pig is clearly an anomaly. The average guinea pig is stupid.
See how long you make it through this video without getting frustrated and quitting.
The pig in that video definitely isn't an anomaly. I've had 5 guinea pigs and they all learn tricks like "high five" and "spin around" extremely fast. One pig actually learned "spin around" just from watching me teach another one in front of him. It was really impressive to me. They are able to watch each other and learn by example, a behavior as unnatural as spinning around to get a treat. Another thing I observed when I had the chance to have a baby guinea pig housed with an adult is that the baby would only eat new foods if he could pull them out of the adult's mouth. It seems that this is their method of learning which kinds of leaves are safe to eat.
Guinea pigs are smart enough to learn their own names and recognize individual humans by their voice. They also are genuinely capable of loving humans or at least enjoying human touch and companionship. They also have a very impressive range of complex vocalizations and songs. Guinea pigs do not "play" in the same way as a cat but I believe they're just as smart as cats.
Rodents are unironically smarter than cats. Cats are dumber than chihuahuas, which are basically rodents anyways. Truly dog sized rodents would be as smart as their canine contemporaries.
this, cats were never bred for intelligence, piggus too but they can learn tricks naturally
Can you speak to the observed phenomenon of "internet lagging" or "high pinging" from guinea pigs? Move........ *waiting for response* ...... move ..... *waiting for response* ....... move.
It makes it frustrating to watch videos of the guinea pig.
I'm converted to the guinea pig, I just want to hear it from those who have experience with guinea pigs.
This is the one thing that would prevent me from getting guinea pigs as pets.
Sure, they might learn tricks fast, but do you experience a general slowness about them?
No, I don't really have any idea what you're talking about. They are as "responsive" as any other animal. If you open the fridge they're immediately squealing and singing, if you scare them they immediately dart away. If you open the window and a breeze rolls into the room, they will immediately sit up and start sniffing as soon as the different air hits them. And just watch two guinea pigs fight if you want to see proof that they're not lagging, they are surprisingly vicious fighters.
Are you talking about the fact that guinea pigs like to move quickly in between pauses of standing still? That's not because their brains are lagging, it's just a predator evasion technique. Specifically a raptor evasion technique. Eagles can't see you if you stand completely still, so they have a habit of being like a statue, checking if it's safe, then darting to the next area/action, being completely still, etc. They don't do this if they're in a comfortable place.
>that they're not lagging, they are surprisingly vicious fighters.
I have no choice but to agree with you here, I've seen it:
Although there still is a sort of "lazy indifference" despite the combat going on in the immediate environment. It's a vibe similar to that of when watching videos of overweight/obese cats. They move with a sluggishness that you can viscerally FEEL through the screen. Things that a normal cat would just do, with unthinking and instinctual efficiency, instead FEEL like chores.
That being said:
Notice how in this video, a fight ensues and then one guinea pig makes a proactive decision to take a leaf and remove it and himself from the scene. Soon afterward, at about 1:08, the offwhite/cream guinea pig at top-right position makes a decision to just grab a chunk of leaf for himself, and it makes a jarring and noticeable CRUNCH, although he hilariously takes far less from the leaf than it would seem he was intending to. He's left dumbfounded, sitting there, chewing, just frozen in "internet lagging" guinea pig style.
This is just one example among MANY that I could do a play-by-play on.
I am HOPING you can prove me wrong, because I want to think more highly of this creature, and while yes my heartstrings have been completely pulled to the guinea pig over the duration of this thread, I still can't help but find him to be a somewhat dull creature, no offense.
>That's not because their brains are lagging, it's just a predator evasion technique. Specifically a raptor evasion technique.
Okay I'm sorry but this literally made me laugh out loud. Something about the notion of these mostly indoor balls, no, cylinders of meat and fur having to watch out for "raptors" like they're in Jurassic Park just tickles me immensely.
Thing is, how many generations of DOMESTICATED guinea pigs are realistically worried about raptors? Look, I get ancestral DNA, things encoded in them from many many years ago. But the lifecycle of a guinea pig is MUCH faster than that of a human. Are you really saying that the instinct to avoid birds of prey would still exist in the guinea pig after all this time?! I mean, domestication of guinea pigs is reported to be at least 5,000-7,000 years ago, from multiple sources.
Guinea pigs haven't been "mostly indoor" since about two or three hundred years ago. Before that, they were kept in outdoor pens with no cover for thousands of years. They were practically bred specifically to fear nothing more than birds. In South America where they are still bred for food by the descendants of the Inca, they are still kept in outside pens to this day.
And even considering the 300-year line of guinea pigs that came to the first world, evolution doesn't just remove features for no reason. If having a habit of standing still to avoid birds doesn't reduce a guinea pig's likelihood of reproducing when kept indoors, then they will just stay like that forever.
>evolution doesn't just remove features for no reason. If having a habit of standing still to avoid birds doesn't reduce a guinea pig's likelihood of reproducing when kept indoors, then they will just stay like that forever.
lmao no they wouldn't
adaptations need some amount of selective pressure just to be kept maintained against degradation from random mutations, without any pressure those mutations will build up and the behavior will be less effective over time and eventually entirely non-functional
without any pressure to lose the behavior this wouldn't happen very quickly, and being domesticated does complicate the matter, but in general adaptations do need to serve some utility in order to persist
Ok, "forever" is an exaggeration but random mutations don't degrade features that don't have any reproductive disadvantage on the timescale of even a whole species. Humans still get goosebumps in the cold despite that we have not been covered in hair for at least 1.2 million years.
humans are still covered in fine hairs that do provide some extra insulation when raised, still not completely pointless to remove
>adaptations need some amount of selective pressure just to be kept maintained against degradation from random mutations, without any pressure those mutations will build up and the behavior will be less effective over time and eventually entirely non-functional
Thanks I wanted to make this argument but didn't have the words for it, bless you senpai
It's basically wrong though
>Guinea pigs haven't been "mostly indoor" since about two or three hundred years ago. Before that, they were kept in outdoor pens with no cover for thousands of years. They were practically bred specifically to fear nothing more than birds. In South America where they are still bred for food by the descendants of the Inca, they are still kept in outside pens to this day.
Why would you go to the trouble of breeding these creatures but not keep them safe from birds of prey? I mean, even fellow rodent Squirrel knows to hide his stash inside a tree of his secret knowledge.
Also, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think squirrels are smarter than guinea pigs. They just have a much sharper thing about them. Just look at picrel. Get me any picture of a guinea pig looking that sharp and focused about ANYTHING.
>they are still kept in outside pens to this day
Some might, but in a lot of homes guinea pigs are kept around the kitchen, people mindlessly, after using the cutting board, throw the leftovers directly on the floor, knowing well guinea pigs are not picky, on holidays they sacrifice one or two just by leaning a little and grabbing them by the neck, without even taking a single or more than a couple of steps to the sink, in some places they skin them with only their nails
>in some places they skin them with only their nails
Here it is, well, this one is part of a guinea pig divination (super popular down there), but it gets the point across:
https://vimeo.com/36374676
see around 11:13
Are guinea pigs good for you?
that looks cruel
why are browns like this
Zero respect
that thing is prob already dead
Cruel? I'd love being rubbed with a guinea pig!
>descendants of the Inca
You mean the Inca? It's not like they died out or anything. They're still around, all 10 million of them. There's even Inca pop music. I posted an old Inca singer in the music thread but lemme getcha a now modern song
Here are the lyrics, too:
https://www.letras.com/renata-flores/pachamama
As you can see, it's mostly in that native shit with a little Spanish thrown in, as well.
Inca is the name of a historical empire, not a race. There are no more incas today, only their descendants, who are of the Andean race.
>Inca is the name of a historical empire, not a race.
Given by the colonisers, which is actually quite weird because the weird simply means "King" in Runasimi, the language of the Inca that is still used today. Its people never called themselves that. The native word was, is and continues to be Quechua to this day. Furthermore, it's not uncommon for descendants of colonisers in the region to refer to Quechua as Inca, even now.
>Andean race
I don't want to mock you but you're making it really, very difficult. There is no singular "Andean race."
Incan Guinea piggie stirrup jar
The incans honestly did an amazing job domesticating these guys. After my experience with dwarf hamsters where every single one would always charge towards my hand to try to bite it no matter how long I've had them I was initially very afraid to let my hand near my guinea pigs' mouths, but I've since found out that I can literally hand feed them cauliflower or stick my hand in to break up fights with zero fear of getting bitten.
One of the best things about having a Guinea pig is earning his trust. They cannot see very well so they have to pause and hearing check / smell check every other moment. The cautious behavior disappeared with my pigs because they learned their environment / I had to teach them not to be so scared. They might still get laggy if they’re put in a new environment, they are still prey animals which is ingrained pretty deeply.
He a big boi
piggy videos make my sad sack 'o shit life a little better... especially squeaky vids.
Can anyone watch this video the whole way through without getting annoyed? This is the perfect encapsulation of the guinea pig. Slow, stupid, and living life as a turn-based strategy game instead of a real-time strategy game. Good luck!
Mini pigs, I love these little pups, was not annoyed.
What about them do you love?
Different personalities, varying levels of intelligence, tiny fast legs, whisker sweepers, floppy ears, ridiculous social habits, ability to bond with humans, they are generally polite. If they wheek too loud I just speak to them at a low volume and they follow suit. They also catch on to things pretty quickly, never wheek during the day for food because they know I feed them around dinner etc. Can be toilet trained. They just want to snuggle, but if you show them new things they get very curious and their personality comes out. I give mine puzzles. My dumbest one actually ended up solving it first.
My smartest one would walk around my 1st floor with me and just not go where it was dangerous on his own. They know their names, fhey also recognize faces/voices remembering who to follow around and who to trust
They will love you unconditionally and probably forget 10 min later if you ever had to give them a shot or meds.
Okay, you're winning me over to the guinea pig.
My remaining complaint with the guinea pig is how it stops to buffer every second. As if their cycle is "stop, think way too long, move, stop..." Do you notice this with your guinea pigs?
Yes. I don't mind it. It means they're curious about things. If they're scared it excited, the frickers zoom without hesitation. They only stop when something has piqued their interest and they feel safe enough to stop and consider it
>They only stop when something has piqued their interest and they feel safe enough to stop and consider it
Do you ever find yourself frustrated with the speed at which they consider things? This is what makes it so hard for me to truly onboard the guinea pig into my life.
No. I like them for what they are.
I wish my son liked them. I'm the guy from s few months ago asking for advice on a new family pet after our dog, Deeoji (get it? D.O.G.) died but he doesn't want guinea pigs because he thinks "side eyes" are ugly.
>he doesn't want guinea pigs because he thinks "side eyes" are ugly.
That's a shame. For as harsh as I've been on guinea pigs ITT, this isn't something I'd even deduct points on a guinea pig for.
Well, guinea pigs have certainly moved up a grade or two in my personal tier list thanks to you.
Cheers.
>remaining complaint with the guinea pig is how it stops to buffer every second. As if their cycle is "stop, think way too long, move, stop..."
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He became self aware of his existence
>As if their cycle is "stop, think way too long, move, stop..."
They're not really thinking, they're observing their surroundings and monitoring for predators. They have really poor eyesight so when they pause you can see their nose twitching, their sniffing for danger. If you watch guinea pigs in a comfortable and familiar surrounding they don't do the stop/start thing as much.
I agree they seem to have severe latency but aren't they literally newborns?
What's wrong with you? It's just infant animals walking around. How fricking brainfried do you have to be to get angry over this?
Adorable and inquisitive. Honestly got more annoyed by the video that auto-loaded afterward with a dumb cat yelling at water.
No
They're pleasant to look at tho.
I had twelve simultaneously. I built an enormous enclosure for them out of plexiglass, corner angle plastic thingies, aquarium glue and little silicon thingies to make dividers.
They each had their own personalities, likes, dislikes and sounds.
I can't tell you much about them being smart, dumb or what, just that they were pleasant creatures to have around. One especially lived my dad
The rest of us she could take or leave but she absolutely loved my dad. They're the Sunday afternoon of pets. Just comfy animals.
>I had twelve simultaneously
Jesus Christ bro, I like guinea pigs but that's too God damn many.
Started with two. Neither I nor my parents (nor the wagie at the pet store) knew how to tell the sex when I got them. I was told they were both female. One was male.
Nah.
After she gave birth to TEN FRICKING GUINEAS, the mother was completely emaciated and very close to death. My father and I literally hand fed her to get her weight back up. Likely the only nurturing thing he's ever done in his life and I had a brother in a wheelchair.
They might be dumb animals, idk, but she definitely seemed to understand that she nearly died and this strange, giant creature went out of its way to help her.
Thank goodness guinea pigs are born pretty much already fully formed, with fur, teeth, open eyes and everything. They were able to feed themselves without mother's milk and though they were physically tiny for guinea pigs (they'd fricking have to have been to be such a huge litter), they still seemed to grow at a normal rate, though they never got as big as either of their parents.
Your dad probably pet it too hard and vibrated her pussy
>male with a pornography addiction: I'm getting some serious pornography vibes in a thread about GUINEA PIGS.
your pornography induced mind rot has already spread.
Why did you specify male? Don't be sexist
i had a guinea pig but all his hair fell out and he died rip
Guinea pigs are awesome and hilarious to watch, Of course Manchildren who play video games will not like them. They are more for people with a spouse and children.
Sounds like some kind of torture to have to deal with anything that pisses every 10 mins
that's why you keep them in the enclosure
have a nice day
And they piss and shit every 10 minutes literally
Yes. That factors in somehow
wow thats literally me
domestic guinea pigs are livestock they were bred to be very stupid. domestic rats were bred to be entertaining pets.
Yup, this makes a whole lot of sense to me now!
What don't I know about?
>Lol ball pythons are like this
Excellent, another endearingly dumb creature to entertain myself with XD
>domestic rats were bred to be entertaining pets.
pretty sure they were bred to be guinea pigs
haha get it?^^
haha
>domestic rats were bred to be entertaining pets
nope you moron
>he doesn't know
> Name me one other creature who is so stupid that if you didn't know any better, you'd think the video were buffering or that they grew up playing Counter-Strike on a dial-up modem
Lol ball pythons are like this
I’m assuming you’re talking cavia domesticus which is the domestic guinea pig. They are cute and their stupidity is endearing. They were also introduced as a cheap “guinea” pig, guinea being the currency, not the location. I’ve met a few piggies that were smart, and only one that was so frustratingly stupid. They also get very arrogant towards something 100x their size which is viewed as kinda cute.
If you’re talking about their predecessors wild cavia from South America, they are fast little frickers with nasty teeth. Those teeth can kill each other and their smaller natural predators. They hide weakness extremely well. They have extensive memory for pathways so they can just disappear into undergrowth. They didn’t need to be that smart
week week week
if it’s a rodent just assume it bites incredibly hard
they were originally bred for meat and cannot survive in the wild
i'd look into the behavior of their wild relatives, maybe they're less stupid
>they were originally bred for meat and cannot survive in the wild
Well, that sure explains it. I guess this pretty much answers my original question.
>their stupidity is endearing.
It really is.
>They have extensive memory for pathways so they can just disappear into undergrowth. They didn’t need to be that smart
Something about this is deeply amusing to me like they're the most idiotic creature known to man but they're also expert pathfinders
>Guinea pig play is almost always social status oriented and done to establish dominance
I get it, and I'm sure it is so, but you have to understand that you've just composed probably the goofiest sentence I've heard in my entire life. I mean, just stare at the OP guinea pig image and think "this creature has established dominance over his fellow creatures" and you'll understand how bewildering this idea is.
Also, guinea PIGS, HOG, kek
>they were originally bred for meat and cannot survive in the wild
Yes they can. If I go out around my neighborhood and dig around some holes I can find one of them for sure. Seen them plenty of times. They live in the same enviroments mice and small rats do. All from an escaped feral population.
You can eat pet breeds. They are pretty tasty. An uncle of mine bought some for his garden but the population got out of control. Then he proceeded to do some "culling". It is to chicken what venison is to beef, imo.
god I wish my neighborhood had a population of feral guineas
Highly recommend eating these guys. Ask around Peruvian restaurants.
So you’re telling me, they are adorable social pets with lots to offer in life, then after death they can be a delicious meal too?
Hamsters and capybaras are just as stupid. If you want a smart rodent, get a rat.
Take this video for example. This cat is TRYING to play with these two guinea pigs but they're so maddeningly slow and stupid that the cat actually seems to be concerned at how stupid they are. If a cat could write a Wauf thread, he'd be the one writing this very thread instead of me.
Hamsters at least seem to have a faster clock cycle. Capybaras make up for it by providing actually utility to other animals in the wild. Capybaras are gentle giants that command respect -- watch how this pelican gets utterly denied by nothing more than a simple glare.
Yea, Guinea pigs don’t get it lol. They are highly social animals but that stays within their herd. They have their own social cues and languages. Because they’re prey animals it’s not instinctive to them to play with another species. Guinea pig play is almost always social status oriented and done to establish dominance
>watch how this pelican gets utterly denied by nothing more than a simple glare
you're making shit up, the capys there don't care because the pelican is harmless, unable to pick one of them up
I strongly disagree. The pelican doesn't need to be a threat to the capybaras nor vice versa for there to be a little prison yard bickering. It's not until the stronger capybara looks up and stares down the pelican that the pelican gets the message and quits giving the little capybara a hard time.
>Capybaras are gentle giants that command respect -- watch how this pelican gets utterly denied by nothing more than a simple glare.
You must go back.
Tell me how I'm wrong. I may sound like a Redditor in my enthusiasm but the evidence speaks for itself.
NTA, but they can kill caimans. They aren't le heckin' cuddly animals
how
they have massive incisors and powerful jaw muscles
This is not an achievement, any caiman that aren’t black caiman are certified jobbers
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that looks like a mouse tho
a mouse isn't that big
Maybe his desk, keyboard, and monitor are built by mice for mice!
Damn Mouse fingers typed those statements!
still too big
Of course it's a mouse; mice are inside, rats are outside.
>Of course it's a mouse; mice are inside, rats are outside.
Source?
scary movie 3 you pleb
Who care about intelligence. At least with guinea pigs you get more years to spend with them. Rats on the other hand break your heart every 2-3 years. Hopefully scientist in the far future mess with fancy rat dna so they can live good ten years.
>slow down their metabolism
>they become dumber.