Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Guinea Pigs

We've got 2 guinea pigs, had 'em for a little while now. [Both male - one's mostly black except for a stripe up his nose kinda like a skunk, so he's Flower, like the skunk from Bambi, while the other is brown and white and black, all messy-like, so he's Bambi.]
Noisy little critters, but we love 'em.

The other day, I was watching the piggies, and they were running around, flinching, jumping...for a while I was wondering if ants had crawled into the cage, or if they were having seizures, yaknow? Then I remembered reading something once about how guinea pigs 'popcorn' when they're happy, so I meandered onto youtube and hunted down some videos of other people's happy, spoiled piggies popcorning to see if that's what ours were doing.
There are some adorable videos on there. I spent nearly an hour watching other people's guinea pigs running around.
Here's an example of the popcorning.
However, I soon started coming upon funnier and funnier videos. This was one of my absolute favourites. The person who created it got some adorable shots that work really well with the footage...and it's an awesome idea. I'm thinking of trying it with ours, too.
Unfortunately, not all the videos were so good. One of the worst that I came across was where someone fed a guinea pig to their snake. Yuck!
However, for the most part, the videos are of adorable guinea pigs getting food instead of being food. Like this one, that I found while hunting down the previous ones to post. [Watch for the black piggy getting thwacked in the butt at the 9 second mark! *laughs*] Our two piggies do the same kind of thing alot when we give them carrots. *grins*

Finally, every once in a while...you also come across something...insanely odd. [Since the audio is a bit off, here also are the lyrics.]

Enjoy!

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