10 funny guinea pig behaviors
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Fun fact - Guinea pigs can perform a funny behavior in as little as 5 seconds.
1. Butternut yawning. With slow motion instant replay. Such teeth!
2. Pumpkin and Zucchin say hello.
3. Acorn is skittish about petting.
4. Zucchin and Spaghett nearly tackle each other again.
5. Pumpkin and Butternut accidentally cuddle.
6. A guinea pig magic trick!
7. Spaghett does a turtle impression.
8. Zucchin sends mixed messages about wanting ear grooming to stop or continue.
9. Breakfast in bed.
10. Spaghett's majestic popcorning leap!
WHAT’S PIGS?
We publish daily highlights of the adorable antics of our guinea pig herd. Subscribe to see what they do tomorrow!
In June 2019 we adopted five pigs from Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue. They are cute herbivorous pets with funny social interactions. We film all their behaviors, from cute guinea pig noises to eating sounds, playing with their food to sleeping with their eyes open, and occasional fighting. So far they have been most popular for their loud wheeking and rumblestrutting and their ridiculous guinea pig fights!
MEET THE PIG FAMILY
Spaghett is the boar of the herd. The rest of the pigs are females, but he’s a neutered male so they won’t be breeding. Sorry, no pregnant or baby guinea pigs! Spaghett has orange-brown fur with a white crest on his head and cute red eyes. He goes on morning romps with entertaining popcorning and zoomies. He does a hilarious rumblestrutting dance for the ladies while purring. When other pigs argue he trots over to comfort them. He likes burrowing through hay and standing on his back feet like a goofy dinosaur. He enjoys petting, especially scratching behind the ears.
Acorn is the youngest. She has white, black, and gold fur with a cute mousy face. She’s inquisitive, always wants food, and talks to herself while exploring hay piles. Little Acorn’s special talent is jumping on houses to go on rooftop adventures.
Butternut appears either confused or deep in thought. She has white and gold fur. Her hobbies include sleeping and yawning while flopped over with her feet sprawled out. She continues wheeking, squeaking, and squealing at us after we have already given her food.
Pumpkin has black fur except for white back toes. She looks like a cow, a non-guinea pig, and a rabbit. She has noisy standoffs with Acorn when Acorn gets feisty.
Zucchin is the oldest and grumpiest. She has white and gray fur with cute red eyes. At first Zucchin fought with Spaghett. There were teeth chattering, nose raising, and hair puffing battles. Now they get along, but Zucchin is still a grouch to the others. She enjoys lunging at anyone who comes near. She loves to chase other pigs out of their homes, then follow them to another home and chase them out of that one too. But she looks like a cute rat!
THEIR HOME
The pigs live in a custom 4 by 6 foot cage we made by merging 3 Midwest Guinea Habitat cages. We cut the seams of the cage bottoms and joined them into one large cage liner with duct tape and super glue. Now we have a MidWest cage of triple the size! The cage is on cheap folding tables so we can easily interact with the pigs. They first lived in the 3 cages connected by ramps with DIY ramp covers we made by sewing blankets.
Their bedding is soft paper bedding from Small Pet Select. We spot clean wet spots daily and do a full cage clean when the bedding starts to smell funky. They used to live on fleece blankets with towels and newspaper underneath. Back then we washed guinea pig fleece by hand in the sink. But since moving to a new apartment guinea pig laundry is less convenient so we switched to bedding. We also considered pine bedding but thought soft paper sounded more comfortable for their little feet!
The pigs prefer free stuff to actual guinea pig toys. They love to hide under packing paper. A DIY guinea pig house made from a cardboard box is a favorite hidey. They are not interested in most chew toys but will chew the bark off small willow sticks.
THEIR DIET
Their favorite hay is 3rd cutting timothy hay from Small Pet Select. They also nibble hay cubes. But they get most excited about fresh grass. They also gobble up guinea pig pellets.
They eat nearly any vegetable. The only thing rejected so far was zucchini. Their favorites are dandelion leaves, fennel, cilantro, parsley, banana leaves, kale, collard greens, kohlrabi, carrot tops and roots, beets, bell peppers, corn with the husk, cucumbers, and pumpkin. They go wild for homemade wheatgrass sprouts.
Their water bottle is a 26 ounce Living World Eco+ glass bottle. They drink half of it in a day.
THEIR CINEMATOGRAPHY
The pigs are filmed with the latest GoPro Hero 8 Black in 4K. We edit their videos in iMovie, using free music from the TH-cam audio library.
Did anybody notice that all piggies always make a long and pointy nose right before they yawn? I always thought this looks hilarious. :)
Yeah, it's like there is a bit of a stretch that goes along with it. When they start doing that while I'm filming I get very excited that I might catch a yawn on camera!
Looks like they're settling in just fine in their new home.
Every single day at night, my guinea pig Pam yawns. It’s super adorable because afterward, she fluffs her face up as if she’s washing her face or something
Aww
My guinea pigs did the same and they pushed things away or adjusted their shelters if they was not satisfied with the position of things 😂😅
First one looked a bit like this intro for movies with a yawning lion xd
Haha, yeah!
1:32 Zucchin: You are not eating my ears like Butternut
Acorn: Relax i'm just an apprentice
Zucchin:Where is Butternut?call her now!
Acorn: i can't!She is chatting with Spaghett
2:39 Zucchin: its not the same😭
Haha, I like this interpretation! :D
@@ItsPigs hey why are you notifications on ' not for kids'?
@@-.V0id_Dw3ller.- Sounds like it's probably due to TH-cam's COPPA stuff. I haven't heard of that for notifications though. What does that do?
@@ItsPigs what type of pellets do you use
@@cadeningram284 Sherwood
Aww how cute! Butternut looks like she just moved in and needs a quick nap before unpacking!
:)
These babies are too cute! I love their names are food!
Thanks! They are all named after types of squash! :D
Omg the indoor Dining is definitely Oinkers doing that Chonkers eats his food like a barbarian lolz
I love how you named your guinea pigs after vegetables, their soo cute! 😍
They are all named after types of squash!
I loved the yawn I love when my rabbit leaves out a big yawn then she always cleans her face afterwards and lays down
Your guineo pig it's so cute❤
Thanks!
The yawn.....oh gosh I needn't say any more......I've more than likely said this before , but I could sit and watch piggys all day everyday! 🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤
:)
The whitegrey guinea pig his ears seems so popular, his friend like to bite his ears
Haha, yeah, they seem to be showing respect to the boss lady.
@@ItsPigs the white grey us female?
@@heavennature The brown one with the crest is a neutered male, the rest are females.
@@ItsPigs And he does'nt have sex with them?
@@izabelbraga4388 neutered male = won't make sex
My boys love a good ear cuddle too. 😂❤️
Cute!
Bruh why they so cute like ughhh🥰🥰🥺
haha
Ok you got me!!!
I just had to subcribe to your pigs!! They are just to cute and I enjoy watching them.
Don't worry, they seem to be having that effect on many people recently! :D
Acorn has been such a funny cutie lately! Feisty! And the more I watch them each day, I realize what a darling piggy Ms. Zucchin is. I just adore her, whether she is being grumpy or accepting ear massages! She loves them! Pumpkin's butt is a star in its own right, btw. I really missed her in the last video.
Zucchin has really grown on me too. She's so quirky. And her bath really brought out her funny shape!
Filming them has been a fun way for us to observe and appreciate their behaviors too! They do so much subtle body language and they can move so fast that often we notice things reviewing the footage that we missed in person.
@@ItsPigs They could make an entire dvd of deleted scenes I bet!!!
Ear cuddles haven’t seen it happen in person till now
It has become a fairly common event for our herd!
Haha, my guinea pigs also do another one but I don't know if yours do, if you haven't fed them yet and just got in they will stare at you and just stand there and it goes right through your soul, scary but cute at the same time.
Ours tend to do more of a climbing on the walls and squealing kind of thing!
I'm just like acorn on how she doesn't wanna be touched but untill I get my food I'm calm 🐹❤️❤️🧡💛💚💙🤣😂🍔🌭
Your piggies are the best! ❤
:D
ur videos never fail to brighten my day even seeing the little posts in my feed are so adorable
Yay!
this channel is very good and cute, and your guinea pigs are very cuteee 💞🥴 i have two in my home 🥴💞
Thank you!
Butternut what big teeth you have!!
This video just made my day better
:D
so lovely!♡♡
I love your piggies names!! They are all super cute🥰🥰
Thanks!
What a large hat you have Spaghett
So cuuute
They look so cute on camera, do they look this cute in real life too?
Yup! :D
Pigrats more like it . Mini mouse and porky had some fun, lol
haha
Silly piggies🥰🥰
Spaghett seems to have the same V-shaped hair loss from excessive grooming on the mid-low back as my piggies did. In my case it was a sign of mites, which 3 weekly doses of Ivermectin rubbed on the back of the ear cleared right up. Something to consider.
Good spotting! We're actually doing that now. Did you use the liquid or paste?
It's Pigs! We used the injectable Ivermectin but just topically, like Saskia from LAGPR recommends on her channel. We also treated all 7 of our pigs though only 5 showed signs, preemptively. So glad you are taking steps to help them. 🙂
@@equestrianrosie Thanks for the info! We've been using the oral paste version but I was just reading in the past few days that oral treatment maybe doesn't actually affect mites. So we're going to switch to topical. We gotta get Mr. Spaghett back to full handsomeness! :D
I could use one of those as a car wash sponge
BUTTERNUT🤗♥️
it's reallly cute when 2 guinea pigs cuddle isnt it 😀
Yeah! I enjoy those rare moments!
@@ItsPigs Totally 😍
So cute 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
This is sooo interesting, great video! Keep up the good work 🤍
Thanks!
It's Pigs! Your welcome!
1:04 OMG,BUTTERNUT TURNED INTO ZUCCHIN
So oo cuute
:D
Loooooove them omg 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕😍😍😍😍😍👍👍💖💖💖💖💖
:D
I love them to
Good guineaa piiig
'Show my teefies'
If you could genetically engineer an animal to look maximally cute, it would just be a guinea pig.
Relatable with my Guineas
hey you should put le festin as background music that would fit well!
That would be funny, think we would have copyright issues though.
@@ItsPigs oh ok no worries :D
1:11 this my guinea pig making same
Mine too its so funny one time 1 guinea pig was hiding in a newspaper and then the newspaper walked that was hilarious 😅
😉👍 sehr gute Aufnahme 😍
Nice and seek nope come and find me yep 😁
Very good and funny ☺☺☺☺
:D
1:04 what the
But...
But....
A magic trick! :D
We just got a New Guinea Pig
His breed: Abino Guinea Piggy
He's the breed of my first guinea pig :D
Exciting!
24 zhlédnutí OmG! 👋🤩
1:00 WOW MaGic
:D
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Coot
Qué bello squisitos que se hacen Dice tienes sueñito ti tienes sueñito se estira y tienen lindas casas donde vivir y qué linda la canción que linda me gusta tanto besitos y usted chica y también éxitos debe alimentar una faldita O sino se va a morir de hambre😍😍😊😂🐹🐹🍌
1:00
Is Pumpkin bigger/longer than Butternut, or is just more stretched out?? XD
Pumpkin is bigger. She weighs around 50% more than Butternut!
😂;)
Keep making story's it's pigs I FEEL BETTER
Yay!
3:00 why did S do that funny leap?? Was that popcorning?
They’re so silly and what are their ages?
We just have estimates, but Acorn is 1-2 years, Spaghett and Pumpkin 2-3, and Butternut and Zucchin more like 5.
A Rat and a Rabbit mixed😳😟
Sounds about right!
does anyone else think pumpkin looks a little bit pregnant?
I have thought that too! If we hadn't had her too long for her to be pregnant I would wonder.
Also zuchhin has a double chin
Yeah I love her fluffy neck wattle!
WHAT SONG IS THIS?
Prizefighter by Norma Rockwell
Do you ever have to trim their teeth?
Nope, haven't had any teeth problems so far.
1:34 I wanna eat ur ear
nom
I'm promotion you channel
Thanks! :D
I have da flu so I turned my notifications off
Hope you feel better fast!