Eyballlicking can also just be a sign of affection appreciation 😊 Often the less dominant pig licks the dominant pigs eye. Sometimes they also do it to comfort another piggie. But yes, sometimes they do it to help cleaning the others face if that pig is sick or old :)
@@siennalewis1088 Oh, the same with me! I feed them the same times each day, and so it's reinforced (without my trying to do so). 🤦 Lately I've been trying to get them to beg on their hind legs so they'll think there's a different way to ask for food. 😊
Hiya - I've just found you on YT as I've just brought home 2 new piggies and need to learn lots. I just LOVE how you say the word piggies!!! Your videos are so informative and I know I'm going to learn so much from you, so thank you in advance! x
I love the little cartoon comments from the piggies! So cute and funny. My daughter and I brought home our piggies two days ago and one is already confusing the other by rumblestrutting and popcorning simultaneously! Such a weird little guy. 😆 They're also less afraid of the cats than they are of us, going right up to touch noses through the cage bars. (The cage is fully secure against the cats). Thank you for all your information, it's been really useful in getting ready to bring our guys home. 😀
Haha thank you! Awh they sound like the happiest little bundles of joy!! I love the dual rumbling and popcorning, it's so funny to watch! Congrats on your new furbabies! ❤😀
My squeak rumblestruts and popcorns after he's been cleaned out. Bubble loves to copy anything squeak does so I'm pretty sure he just popcorns because squeak is and doesn't really know why😂
Thank you for putting the poop eating out there! I’ve had piggies as a kid and even in college. I knew what they were doing but never knew the science behind it. (This is my first comment to you - sorta funny) It’s something that’s not spoken of outright so much. Love your videos!! I’ve begun fostering piggies recently from a local rescue after years of no animals. Learning a lot from you or confirming what I thought. Thank you!
I’m so glad I’ve learned the difference between social and aggressive behaviors! I used to have panic attacks about my piggies fighting each other. And now I can watch them and it’s so fun😄 we can’t humanize our pets
Great video Sarah. Love Phoebe popcorning in the hammock! Have seen mine doing this too. They also love popcorning on the Haypigs crash pads where they look like they’re trampolining!!!🤣 Have a good weekend xx ps Have never seen the eye-licking so thanks for that- one to watch out for x
The videos are just getting better and better - informative, funny, so so cute and a real tonic especially this week after the sad sad news of Max on Little Adventures. So this video really made me smile and still picking up new nuggets of piggie know-how ... looks like everyone is getting along too! Happy days. Congratulations on another terrific video Squeakers and Dreamers! xx
Eye licking is really interesting and I only saw it on one of my piggies. The oldest of my girls has an eye surgically removed due to an infection and after it was totally healed the second oldest started licking the missing eye. I thought it was kind of sweet behavior, it was like her friend tried to make it better.
My girl rattles the bars with her teeth when she hears me setting up floor time or getting their dinner ready And she's anxious to come out of the cage
Brilliantly put together, you did a great job. Thank you for educating everyone in such an amusing way - love all the piggie captions - they make me smile. The only thing I haven't picked up on is the eye licking. Maybe its because my three girls are very protective of their own space and don't like one of the others coming close, they resort to nose bumping and if that fails they teeth chatter noisily, rear up and launch...... 🤔 I upgraded their space to 10'x5' so it rarely happens now. 🙂
I have a guinea pig who bites. She really doesn’t like being held, and especially when I need to clip her nails, she bites a lot! It actually hurts a good bit too :’)
Pedro looks well happy! We have 3 new baby girls that are now 9 wheeks old lol. They're loving the converted bunk bed frame that we use with correx and the cube things and cable ties. When they get a bit bigger and more settled I'll add a second level for them to explore. They've got loads of space for now at 3ft x 6ft.
I really like your channel you helped me how I do my own litter box or to use one tysm u are so kind and nice and I love to watch you videos I try to have a piggie routine like you :)))
My little dog (4lbs) licks her brothers eyes (15)lol. Love the video. Love the little potatoes! Miss my Teddy. Loved when he licked me and his pop corning. ❤ My little Morkie use to stand ontop of my Guinea pig Teddy’s cage. Teddy use to look up at her. Little dog wasn’t thrilled with Teddy. My bigger Morkie loved Teddy ❤.
Lol my piggies do the poop eating thing. I used to be so confused back in 2017 when I got My First two piggies, Cookie & Candy (Rest in Peace Candy) Anyways, Thank You Sara for another great and educational video! Give your piggies a treat for me! Hehe ❤️
thank you for this information video I learn more then I already know lol. and I understand about the popcorning we have a pig that goes crazy! when we interact with her or just greeting her daily haha! :D
The squealing in fear.... I heard this awful squeal and ran to see what was going on... a wild rat was leaving the cage! It could fit through the wire of the c and c cage even if I have a lid on it. I was mortified! I thought the rat must have bitten my male guinea pig and that's what made him squeal so loud as I'd never heard that sound before. I then moved my male guinea pig into a cage that I didn't think the rat could get into. I also had a mother guinea pig in a separate cage with two babies. Her bars were too small for a rat to fit through, and yes it had a lid. In the mean time I was trying to catch the rat, bait the rat, or live trap it. I was sitting around on the computer and heard another loud squeal very much like the first one. I ran over to the guinea pigs and the rat was climbing on the wire outside of the mother guinea pigs cage, but it couldn't get IN to get her food but she still squealed in a loud desperate cry. The rat couldn't have bitten her so this squeal must have been a cry of fear! I scared the rat off both times and am still trying to catch or bait it. I hate to kill anything, but i can't risk it hurting one of the piggies. It also stole my cookies as chewed it's way through the lid. I dont care that it got cookies... just don't want it to get my baby piggies as they are so small and vulnerable. I am going to rat proof all my cages with wire mesh over the C and c and all have to have lids now. I live on a small hobby farm, and have horses too so rats and mice are sadly... a thing here. thanks for explaining that guinea pigs can and will squeal in fear as I had wondered.. did it grab my female through the bars and nip her? it was a horrendous cry to hear, but glad she alerted me so I could scare it away.
One of my girls squeals a lot. I call it her complaining voice as it almost always means something like "Mom! My sister is touching me again!" Percy loves to snuggle. Trinket does not. Part of me thinks that Percy (the dominant one) just likes to pick on her sister.
@@SqueakDreams They are. I love how kissy Trinket is (even if she is overly fascinated with my right nostril) and how snuffly Percy is (I count that as her version of kisses).
My son got two male guinea pigs for Christmas, called Gizmo and Fluffy. Gizmo seems to be a little bit more timid, but for like the 3rd time now, he has bitten and pierced skin causing blood and it really hurt. Today he got me right beside the nailbed on my thumb. I am very nervous towards picking them up yet and we've had them since 18th of December. I don't want to scare them off by annoying them, but myself and my son are dying to have little cuddles with them and bond with them. I'll talk to them every time I'm in the room where their cage is. Gizmo will take food that I'm holding so I know that's a good sign. Fluffy is getting closer and then just runs away. When we first saw the "popcorning" I was convinced our piggies were half guinea pig and half kangaroo haha But I'm glad it's a normal behaviour. I nearly got sick at them eating their own poop though, however I think the other day I saw one of them with a poop in their mouth. I love the little piggies comments throughout the video, you make it all look so very easy. But I am learning so much already, so thank you.
My piggies chew the bars of the cage when they think there's food on the way, they only do it when they see/hear me moving round the kitchen or if they hear plastic rustling. I'm building my own enclosure this summer, & it will NOT have bars lol!
My Donut used to chew the cage when her hay wasn't up to her standards. Her nickname was Drama piggy. She would look right at me and chew the bars. She would growl at me if I was a Minute late with her food. She would snatch a Strawberry out of my fingers so quick.
Had a guinea pig with a dust allergy. Her one eye would get gunked up. To a point where I always had drops on hand for when she got a reaction. It was hard to avoid 100 percent of the time. But the boss piggie at the time would help clean her up
I havnt had guinea pigs for a long time and was thinking of getting 2 rescues. I want a large run type cage and the use of fleece pads seems much easier. I just wondered where you purchase the large runs from please
Hi. I have a question, (not about behavior) but if you have 2 guinea pigs, should you get 1 or 2 bottles? I just can't decide. (Sorry for bad spelling)
Just got some New Guineas ! Adopted two boys about 1 year old ish, I’ve just put them outside in a hutch as it’s summer, any advice, they seemed to be bouncing or the walls I don’t know if they are scared or having fun 😂😢
Love your videos Sarah! We have two little girls! Polly and Pepper! Thry are almost 3 months old now and started spraying each other!! There's pee everywhere in the cage now! What do you know about that? Is there a way to stop this behavior? Thank you!
I got a new cage for my boys (brothers Cadbury, Marshmallow, and Ninja) with a large cardboard tube, a stick bridge, and a plastic walk-in barn, and Cadbury was wheeking, zooming and popcorning for about an hour. Marshmallow stood up, saw the outside of the cage, squeaked and ran for cover. Ninja hides in the barn and pops out grabs a veggie or treat and runs back inside to eat. But the strangest behavior I’ve seen is Cadbury climbing on Ninja, which I’m going to assume is a dominance behavior because Ninja was away for a few days to see how he’d do with the other older piggies that he’s supposed to be caged with at my daughter’s. My daughter’s one female piggie, Phoebe, for some reason destroyed 2 water bottles from aggressive drinking. The replacement glass bottle didn’t give, but she went through an entire large bottle in less than a day. It takes the boys a week to go through that much filtered water.
Wow, sounds like they LOVE the new cage!! I bet the popcorning was so fun to watch! The mounting/humping is fairly normal dominance behaviour yes :) interesting about the water bottles - I use the glass ones, which still such be changed everyday even if they don't drink it all 😊
@@SqueakDreams Hopefully the boys and I will be going home (180 miles) in the next few days. When we get there, there’s 7 surprises for them: 3 brand new beds/cozy sacks, 2 new ceramic food bowls, and 2 wooden chew toys. I’ll have my work cut out for me as I’ll be making them a few cage liners and a bunch of pee pads. I found the hammock stand you have for your piggies and it’s about $75 USD, which I’ll have to wait for. It’ll be interesting to see their behavior with the liners and pee pads compared to Aspen shavings.
I need help as.. all my guinea pigs I gave a full water bottle..I never noticed they drank n ..I'm quite worry..I bought another 2 lil pigs ..one of my older one keep mounting..any suggestions given
Did any of your piggies ever tweet like a bird (chirping)? It is a thing that happens once in awhile. I had my young boy Tino do this (he was the only one I can remember). Both times, middle of the night, and I awoke thinking a bird flew in through the ac unit. No, it was the piggy! It is the wackiest thing ever!
I've heard it! It's so odd, because it seems to be a scared or startled warning of some kind, but other piggies nearby never seem to know what to make of it! So it's not a very effective warning, if that's what it is! 😊
@@SqueakDreams I have mostly heard it from younger piggies and Willow was a young lady at the time. No one knows what it means and yes, it is mysterious and comes and goes! hehe Many wheeks of love and support to you, Pedro (my new love), Lyra, and those two lil devious girlies Roxy and Phoebe.
@@jbjacobs9514 Hee hee! I have a guinea pig who sounds like a bird, and a bird who does the "smoke detector battery is dying" sound. Life is confusing! 😂
Two out of my three girls always seem to have scuds/scabs on them. I've definitely noticed one being a lot more dominant than the others. The smallest one doesn't have a scratch on her but the other two seem to always have these very minor injuries. They are very vocal sometimes and I'm wondering if they are fighting without me realising/seeing? They have a new cage that we're making for them which will give them more room, I'm hoping with some more space they'll get on better 🤞🏼
Hello I just wanted to ask if your pigs have seperate hideys in their cage, to give them both some space. Also if the scratches are near the bum or neck, you should be concerned or if its drawing blood. I hope the piggies are enjoying their cage now! Good luck X
I recently got my first piggy, and he's very skittish rn and whenever I come close to his enclosure he instantly is aware of my every move. ofc he is getting more comfortable and if he's sleeping I will tap on the floor so he can sense I'm there and I don't scare him BUT ONE DAY I go to check on him and ofc I tap in the floor... he doesn't move. I tap again and again AND HE STILL DOESN'T MOVE... at this point Im freaking out so I move his hide and MF STILL DOESN'T MOVE I tap him with the hide and he finally moves. T^T y'all I cried for a good 30 minutes thinking he's dead.
My mother doesn't like holding Luke cause she thinks he'll bite her because he did bite her a few days after I got him but all he did with me was nibble and lick and he tried to stay as close as possible to me he also trys to go under my blanket completely when ever we cuddle together
Hi I have a guinea pig that is 5 months old and is keep hiding under stuff like a bed cover or even goes under fleece blanket however dose not want to hide under houses or tunnels . My guinea pig dose lives alone for the reason he is always picked by other guinea pigs and it only gets out from the hides when it eats or grabs drunk.... is there anyway to help my guinea pig to be less shy ?
You could try using liners with sides on to prevent fleece digging or that clip on somehow, it sounds like he is nervous and also gotten into the bad habitat of digging up the liner bless him. You can work on taming tips from my taming videos (links in description) to help him be more brave!
Is it normal for a pig to not care about the vacum? I have a pig (she's the boss pig) she has no fear for the vaccum last time I did it she got up from where she was napping and walked to the hay and started eating near where I was vaccuming
One of my piggies I had years ago, he hates the jingle of bells. My other pigs didn't care but he HATED them. I was at the vet once sitting in a chair and it was a small little house type of vet place and everytine someone would walk in, a bell would jiggle and he would cause quite a scene in the carrier in my lap. I felt bad because I knew he hate it but there was nothing I could really do about it and it was cold and windy outside. So I couldn't go there, plus I wouldn't hear my name getting called. Everyone was looking at me and the angry pig in my lap. 🤣
Hi! I while ago i had to separate my piggies after giving them their bath. they were lunging and i was scared so i separated them. i really want to reintroduce them. what should i do?
This was really helpful!!! Thank you so much !!! I’ve had 3 piggies for a month now and would like to know how to make one drink water and then also how do I place my younger piggies in the same cage as my older piggie
You're welcome! 😊 Young piggies usually find the water bottle by themselves and sometimes it can seem like they are not drinking much because they get a lot of water from their daily veg. Make sure the bottle is at a good height for him/her and you could try showing him/her how it works to encourage! For introductions - use a neutral space, with hay, food and open ended hideys. If you look up guinea pig bonding or guinea pig introductions you'll find a lot of videos 😀 best of luck!
I really want 2 cute little piggies but I’m a little scared that I won’t be able to get any from a breeder and I don’t want them from a pet shop unless it’s the last option because I dont want the piggies to be missexed
I'm watching yer videos,cus a neighbor dumped a Guinea Pig on Me,,Purina makes a Nice Green & Cream colored litter box..With Under Catch Tray,& Slit Like Floor Grate..Easy Cleaning,daily
Hi sadly one of my piggies passed away 3 days ago . Should I get a new guinea pig sooner or later as my other guinea pig is on there own. I don't want to replace the passed piggy but don't want the other one to be lonely :(
I'm so sorry for your loss, it's always hard but when you have a single piggie left it can be tough on them too. When Sprite was alone she lived in the living room where we could interact with her more for 3 weeks or so until we got new piggie friends for her. I would say don't leave it too long and do think about whether you get a youngster or whether adopting an older piggie might be better depending on your situation and owning pigs in the future :)
It was heartbreaking to see one of my piggies eyeball licking his dead cagemate. I put the deceased piggy in the cage for a short amount of time, so the other one could say goodbye and have a sniff. Sometimes they seem to keep looking for their lost friends, not realizing they have passed, so I wanted to prevent that from happening.
I'm so sorry for your loss. What you saw is fairly common for piggies to do, if the eyelicking is show of affection we could see it as them saying goodbye to their friend. Whether or not they understand the passing of a cage mate or not is another question, they certainly don't see it from our perspective, but I feel they know and understand on some level. They are social creatures who live in herds and with that will come instincts for how to behave and act when family members/mates have passed away. Signs of grief and depression after a cage mate passing are also reported by many piggie owners. ❤
My piggy bit me but it was because I trade to brod him with another piggy and I separated him with my head, don't worry he didn't mean to hurt me and love me very much
As much as it breaks my heart, I must say I am not happy with the way my parents have set up the home for the guinea pig, we have a single young male around 11-12 weeks old, the cage is far too small. Is there any way I could convince my parents to get a bigger cage?
@@theonewithallthepets8503 i've tried but their excuse is who will clean all the mess, :( plus we dont have a big enough or enough rooms to put a bigger guinea pig cage. My mom pretty much went in blind into taking care of a guinea pig
I have two male pigs and one of them had a eye inflamination and the other pig licked the "bad" eyeball, and I don't know if they are such a friends or he likes that medications🤷♀️🤣
My guinea pig his name is Luke he chews the bars a lot and my parents won't let me get him another friend after my sisters one passed we had a little funeral and there was lots of crying and I also sadly had to remove Luke's little hiddy hole because he couldn't enter it anymore and I kinda wanna know what to do if I can't get him a friend because I'm gonna try and save up money and get Luke a new hiddy hole so that shouldn't be a problem for too long.
I have a guinea pig she keeps squealing every time I try everything doesn’t work I have a she has a roommate but he’s aggressive so I put him in another cage I’m getting her a new friend today
Eyballlicking can also just be a sign of affection appreciation 😊 Often the less dominant pig licks the dominant pigs eye. Sometimes they also do it to comfort another piggie. But yes, sometimes they do it to help cleaning the others face if that pig is sick or old :)
The intro was so cute! Phoebe's little tongue 🥺🥺
You're so good at catching the behaviors on camera! :) With chewing the cage, one reason I have piggies who do it is to say, "Feed me! Hurry!"
Thank you and ah yes definitely another way of demanding food!
I have one boy who does this😩 and since he’s telling me he’s hungry I feed him and reinforce the behavior. Whoops😅😬
@@siennalewis1088 Oh, the same with me! I feed them the same times each day, and so it's reinforced (without my trying to do so). 🤦 Lately I've been trying to get them to beg on their hind legs so they'll think there's a different way to ask for food. 😊
Hiya - I've just found you on YT as I've just brought home 2 new piggies and need to learn lots. I just LOVE how you say the word piggies!!! Your videos are so informative and I know I'm going to learn so much from you, so thank you in advance! x
Awh thank you so much for your lovely comment! Best of luck with the new furbabies 😍🥰
Can't agree more. I just got 2 new piggies as well and now I'm totally addicted to this channel XD
I’m with you both
I love your channel as well. Your voice is so soothing, I could listen to you talk all day.
Sameeeee
I love the little cartoon comments from the piggies! So cute and funny.
My daughter and I brought home our piggies two days ago and one is already confusing the other by rumblestrutting and popcorning simultaneously! Such a weird little guy. 😆 They're also less afraid of the cats than they are of us, going right up to touch noses through the cage bars. (The cage is fully secure against the cats). Thank you for all your information, it's been really useful in getting ready to bring our guys home. 😀
Haha thank you! Awh they sound like the happiest little bundles of joy!! I love the dual rumbling and popcorning, it's so funny to watch! Congrats on your new furbabies! ❤😀
My squeak rumblestruts and popcorns after he's been cleaned out. Bubble loves to copy anything squeak does so I'm pretty sure he just popcorns because squeak is and doesn't really know why😂
Thank you for putting the poop eating out there! I’ve had piggies as a kid and even in college. I knew what they were doing but never knew the science behind it. (This is my first comment to you - sorta funny) It’s something that’s not spoken of outright so much. Love your videos!! I’ve begun fostering piggies recently from a local rescue after years of no animals. Learning a lot from
you or confirming what I thought. Thank you!
Haha a first comment on poop eating has to be up there with the best! So glad to hear you are fostering piggies, how lucky they are! 😃🌻
I’m so glad I’ve learned the difference between social and aggressive behaviors! I used to have panic attacks about my piggies fighting each other. And now I can watch them and it’s so fun😄 we can’t humanize our pets
So true - the dominance behaviours are some of the most confusing!
Great video Sarah. Love Phoebe popcorning in the hammock! Have seen mine doing this too. They also love popcorning on the Haypigs crash pads where they look like they’re trampolining!!!🤣 Have a good weekend xx ps Have never seen the eye-licking so thanks for that- one to watch out for x
I love your piggies
The videos are just getting better and better - informative, funny, so so cute and a real tonic especially this week after the sad sad news of Max on Little Adventures. So this video really made me smile and still picking up new nuggets of piggie know-how ... looks like everyone is getting along too! Happy days. Congratulations on another terrific video Squeakers and Dreamers! xx
Thank you so much, glad it brought a smile after the sad news about Max ❤❤
Eye licking is really interesting and I only saw it on one of my piggies. The oldest of my girls has an eye surgically removed due to an infection and after it was totally healed the second oldest started licking the missing eye. I thought it was kind of sweet behavior, it was like her friend tried to make it better.
I love your videos! I'm getting my first guinea pigs from a rescue near me in just ten days, and you've really helped me get prepared. Thank you!
haha phoebe popcorning in the hammock is so cute
I am so glad I found this channel before taking in two boys! Thank you for the useful information!
You're welcome! 🌻😃
i haven’t had any problems with my guinea pigs as they are still pretty new but i still love watching these videos and learning new things about them
I'm teaching my husband about guinea pig behaviour, he often freaks out at some of the stuff they do.. Im like dont worry its natural behaviour :)
My girl rattles the bars with her teeth when she hears me setting up floor time or getting their dinner ready And she's anxious to come out of the cage
My girls love Phoebe and Roxy! Your videos help them with their piggies Coconut and Clover.
I love watching your videos! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you this helps my research about Guinea pigs. I am planning to get one soon when I am older, and yet again thank you I really appreciate it 😊
My piggies do a lot of these snd i was starting to worry so thank you for posting this i love your video’s!
As always, quite helpful! Thanks for all you do! Cheers!
I love your vids I recently got 2 males piggys!! And you vids are amazing thay HELP ME SO MUCH!! Thanx!!!!❤
Thanks to you I found Kavee! Now im ordering my own cage! so exited I can hardly wait! thanks a lot!
That's great! The cages are fantastic!
Brilliantly put together, you did a great job. Thank you for educating everyone in such an amusing way - love all the piggie captions - they make me smile. The only thing I haven't picked up on is the eye licking. Maybe its because my three girls are very protective of their own space and don't like one of the others coming close, they resort to nose bumping and if that fails they teeth chatter noisily, rear up and launch...... 🤔 I upgraded their space to 10'x5' so it rarely happens now. 🙂
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed 😀 great to hear the cage upgrade settled things between your girls!
I am addicted to Squeak Dreams YT also. Can’t learn enough. Can’t wait to get my piggies!
I have a guinea pig who bites. She really doesn’t like being held, and especially when I need to clip her nails, she bites a lot! It actually hurts a good bit too :’)
Hi Sarah and piggies I love ur channel
Thank you! 😍
Pedro looks so happy in his new home, your an amazing owner!! 💖💖Also have you just seen about little adventures guinea pig max passed 😢
Awh thank you. Yes I saw on Insta and watched the tribute tonight, it's so sad 😥 rest in peace Max! 💕
@@SqueakDreams RIP
Max was sweetie . RIP.Max
I love the little captions 🤣🤣🤣
Pedro looks well happy! We have 3 new baby girls that are now 9 wheeks old lol. They're loving the converted bunk bed frame that we use with correx and the cube things and cable ties. When they get a bit bigger and more settled I'll add a second level for them to explore. They've got loads of space for now at 3ft x 6ft.
Thank you! That sounds like a great setup! 😃
Great informational video. Thank you. God bless.
One of my girls do bite...every time I take her out off the cage! She really don't like to go out 😅 Thank you the vídeo ones again ☺️☺️
I really like your channel you helped me how I do my own litter box or to use one tysm u are so kind and nice and I love to watch you videos
I try to have a piggie routine like you :)))
My little dog (4lbs) licks her brothers eyes (15)lol.
Love the video. Love the little potatoes! Miss my Teddy. Loved when he licked me and his pop corning. ❤
My little Morkie use to stand ontop of my Guinea pig Teddy’s cage. Teddy use to look up at her. Little dog wasn’t thrilled with Teddy. My bigger Morkie loved Teddy ❤.
Lol my piggies do the poop eating thing. I used to be so confused back in 2017 when I got My First two piggies, Cookie & Candy (Rest in Peace Candy) Anyways, Thank You Sara for another great and educational video! Give your piggies a treat for me! Hehe ❤️
Thank you so much and I will do! :D
thank you for this information video I learn more then I already know lol. and I understand about the popcorning we have a pig that goes crazy! when we interact with her or just greeting her daily haha! :D
Thanks for the informative videos. I’m a new owner (less than 24 hours) lol I have so much to learn. Thanks a lot!
So helpful thanks 😊😊😊
The squealing in fear.... I heard this awful squeal and ran to see what was going on... a wild rat was leaving the cage! It could fit through the wire of the c and c cage even if I have a lid on it. I was mortified! I thought the rat must have bitten my male guinea pig and that's what made him squeal so loud as I'd never heard that sound before. I then moved my male guinea pig into a cage that I didn't think the rat could get into. I also had a mother guinea pig in a separate cage with two babies. Her bars were too small for a rat to fit through, and yes it had a lid. In the mean time I was trying to catch the rat, bait the rat, or live trap it. I was sitting around on the computer and heard another loud squeal very much like the first one. I ran over to the guinea pigs and the rat was climbing on the wire outside of the mother guinea pigs cage, but it couldn't get IN to get her food but she still squealed in a loud desperate cry. The rat couldn't have bitten her so this squeal must have been a cry of fear! I scared the rat off both times and am still trying to catch or bait it. I hate to kill anything, but i can't risk it hurting one of the piggies. It also stole my cookies as chewed it's way through the lid. I dont care that it got cookies... just don't want it to get my baby piggies as they are so small and vulnerable. I am going to rat proof all my cages with wire mesh over the C and c and all have to have lids now. I live on a small hobby farm, and have horses too so rats and mice are sadly... a thing here. thanks for explaining that guinea pigs can and will squeal in fear as I had wondered.. did it grab my female through the bars and nip her? it was a horrendous cry to hear, but glad she alerted me so I could scare it away.
One of my girls squeals a lot. I call it her complaining voice as it almost always means something like "Mom! My sister is touching me again!" Percy loves to snuggle. Trinket does not. Part of me thinks that Percy (the dominant one) just likes to pick on her sister.
Awh your girls sounds so sweet! 😀🌻
@@SqueakDreams They are. I love how kissy Trinket is (even if she is overly fascinated with my right nostril) and how snuffly Percy is (I count that as her version of kisses).
My son got two male guinea pigs for Christmas, called Gizmo and Fluffy. Gizmo seems to be a little bit more timid, but for like the 3rd time now, he has bitten and pierced skin causing blood and it really hurt. Today he got me right beside the nailbed on my thumb. I am very nervous towards picking them up yet and we've had them since 18th of December. I don't want to scare them off by annoying them, but myself and my son are dying to have little cuddles with them and bond with them. I'll talk to them every time I'm in the room where their cage is. Gizmo will take food that I'm holding so I know that's a good sign. Fluffy is getting closer and then just runs away.
When we first saw the "popcorning" I was convinced our piggies were half guinea pig and half kangaroo haha But I'm glad it's a normal behaviour. I nearly got sick at them eating their own poop though, however I think the other day I saw one of them with a poop in their mouth.
I love the little piggies comments throughout the video, you make it all look so very easy. But I am learning so much already, so thank you.
My piggies chew the bars of the cage when they think there's food on the way, they only do it when they see/hear me moving round the kitchen or if they hear plastic rustling. I'm building my own enclosure this summer, & it will NOT have bars lol!
Ditto Vicky V. Still waiting to get my piggies (have some traveling to get behind me first)
My Donut used to chew the cage when her hay wasn't up to her standards. Her nickname was Drama piggy. She would look right at me and chew the bars. She would growl at me if I was a Minute late with her food. She would snatch a Strawberry out of my fingers so quick.
Had a guinea pig with a dust allergy. Her one eye would get gunked up. To a point where I always had drops on hand for when she got a reaction. It was hard to avoid 100 percent of the time. But the boss piggie at the time would help clean her up
Hi! I've been watching you for a while and this is completely unrelated to the video but where did you get your hammock stand?
I havnt had guinea pigs for a long time and was thinking of getting 2 rescues. I want a large run type cage and the use of fleece pads seems much easier. I just wondered where you purchase the large runs from please
So informative!
Hi.
I have a question, (not about behavior) but if you have 2 guinea pigs, should you get 1 or 2 bottles? I just can't decide.
(Sorry for bad spelling)
Just got some New Guineas ! Adopted two boys about 1 year old ish, I’ve just put them outside in a hutch as it’s summer, any advice, they seemed to be bouncing or the walls I don’t know if they are scared or having fun 😂😢
Were did you get that hammock stand? The thing the hammock hangs from.
Awwwww love this vid
Do not let gps kiss you on the lips. Got it. 😆
My piggies always lick each other, they must taste nice or something 😂 - they also flop so much after playing it’s like they’re exhausted
1:41 haha 😂
Love your videos Sarah! We have two little girls! Polly and Pepper! Thry are almost 3 months old now and started spraying each other!! There's pee everywhere in the cage now! What do you know about that? Is there a way to stop this behavior? Thank you!
my piggies wake me up at 5 am biting their cage and house because they demand fresh hay inmediately
My pig called sootie would chew on the bars when I came into the room to feed her to get attention. She was a bit of a crazy piggy.
Awh bless her! Chewing bars definitely seems to be a call for attention more than anything else!
@@SqueakDreams hehe
I got a new cage for my boys (brothers Cadbury, Marshmallow, and Ninja) with a large cardboard tube, a stick bridge, and a plastic walk-in barn, and Cadbury was wheeking, zooming and popcorning for about an hour. Marshmallow stood up, saw the outside of the cage, squeaked and ran for cover. Ninja hides in the barn and pops out grabs a veggie or treat and runs back inside to eat. But the strangest behavior I’ve seen is Cadbury climbing on Ninja, which I’m going to assume is a dominance behavior because Ninja was away for a few days to see how he’d do with the other older piggies that he’s supposed to be caged with at my daughter’s. My daughter’s one female piggie, Phoebe, for some reason destroyed 2 water bottles from aggressive drinking. The replacement glass bottle didn’t give, but she went through an entire large bottle in less than a day. It takes the boys a week to go through that much filtered water.
Wow, sounds like they LOVE the new cage!! I bet the popcorning was so fun to watch! The mounting/humping is fairly normal dominance behaviour yes :) interesting about the water bottles - I use the glass ones, which still such be changed everyday even if they don't drink it all 😊
@@SqueakDreams Hopefully the boys and I will be going home (180 miles) in the next few days. When we get there, there’s 7 surprises for them: 3 brand new beds/cozy sacks, 2 new ceramic food bowls, and 2 wooden chew toys. I’ll have my work cut out for me as I’ll be making them a few cage liners and a bunch of pee pads. I found the hammock stand you have for your piggies and it’s about $75 USD, which I’ll have to wait for. It’ll be interesting to see their behavior with the liners and pee pads compared to Aspen shavings.
I need help as.. all my guinea pigs I gave a full water bottle..I never noticed they drank n ..I'm quite worry..I bought another 2 lil pigs ..one of my older one keep mounting..any suggestions given
Did any of your piggies ever tweet like a bird (chirping)? It is a thing that happens once in awhile. I had my young boy Tino do this (he was the only one I can remember). Both times, middle of the night, and I awoke thinking a bird flew in through the ac unit. No, it was the piggy! It is the wackiest thing ever!
I've heard it! It's so odd, because it seems to be a scared or startled warning of some kind, but other piggies nearby never seem to know what to make of it! So it's not a very effective warning, if that's what it is! 😊
Yes, I last heard it 5 years ago from Willow - she did it 4 or 5 times over the space of a few months and then never again! It is so mysterious!
@@SqueakDreams I have mostly heard it from younger piggies and Willow was a young lady at the time. No one knows what it means and yes, it is mysterious and comes and goes! hehe Many wheeks of love and support to you, Pedro (my new love), Lyra, and those two lil devious girlies Roxy and Phoebe.
@@MillsSkits Yeah it just warns us to think we have a bird in our house. hehehehe
@@jbjacobs9514 Hee hee! I have a guinea pig who sounds like a bird, and a bird who does the "smoke detector battery is dying" sound. Life is confusing! 😂
My guinea pig hazel, don’t worry I have another one, biscuit, has a bad habit of biting my clothing and sometimes me because she thinks it’s food.
Two out of my three girls always seem to have scuds/scabs on them. I've definitely noticed one being a lot more dominant than the others. The smallest one doesn't have a scratch on her but the other two seem to always have these very minor injuries. They are very vocal sometimes and I'm wondering if they are fighting without me realising/seeing? They have a new cage that we're making for them which will give them more room, I'm hoping with some more space they'll get on better 🤞🏼
Hello I just wanted to ask if your pigs have seperate hideys in their cage, to give them both some space. Also if the scratches are near the bum or neck, you should be concerned or if its drawing blood. I hope the piggies are enjoying their cage now! Good luck X
Our guinea pigs lick each other's eyes, also.
I recently got my first piggy, and he's very skittish rn and whenever I come close to his enclosure he instantly is aware of my every move. ofc he is getting more comfortable and if he's sleeping I will tap on the floor so he can sense I'm there and I don't scare him BUT ONE DAY I go to check on him and ofc I tap in the floor... he doesn't move. I tap again and again AND HE STILL DOESN'T MOVE... at this point Im freaking out so I move his hide and MF STILL DOESN'T MOVE I tap him with the hide and he finally moves. T^T y'all I cried for a good 30 minutes thinking he's dead.
My mother doesn't like holding Luke cause she thinks he'll bite her because he did bite her a few days after I got him but all he did with me was nibble and lick and he tried to stay as close as possible to me he also trys to go under my blanket completely when ever we cuddle together
Hi I have a guinea pig that is 5 months old and is keep hiding under stuff like a bed cover or even goes under fleece blanket however dose not want to hide under houses or tunnels . My guinea pig dose lives alone for the reason he is always picked by other guinea pigs and it only gets out from the hides when it eats or grabs drunk.... is there anyway to help my guinea pig to be less shy ?
You could try using liners with sides on to prevent fleece digging or that clip on somehow, it sounds like he is nervous and also gotten into the bad habitat of digging up the liner bless him. You can work on taming tips from my taming videos (links in description) to help him be more brave!
Question? Can I really train my piggy to use a liter box? How? I see many extra clean cages.
Is it normal for a pig to not care about the vacum? I have a pig (she's the boss pig) she has no fear for the vaccum last time I did it she got up from where she was napping and walked to the hay and started eating near where I was vaccuming
One of my piggies I had years ago, he hates the jingle of bells. My other pigs didn't care but he HATED them. I was at the vet once sitting in a chair and it was a small little house type of vet place and everytine someone would walk in, a bell would jiggle and he would cause quite a scene in the carrier in my lap. I felt bad because I knew he hate it but there was nothing I could really do about it and it was cold and windy outside. So I couldn't go there, plus I wouldn't hear my name getting called. Everyone was looking at me and the angry pig in my lap. 🤣
Awh bless him!!
Hi! I while ago i had to separate my piggies after giving them their bath. they were lunging and i was scared so i separated them. i really want to reintroduce them. what should i do?
This was really helpful!!! Thank you so much !!! I’ve had 3 piggies for a month now and would like to know how to make one drink water and then also how do I place my younger piggies in the same cage as my older piggie
You're welcome! 😊 Young piggies usually find the water bottle by themselves and sometimes it can seem like they are not drinking much because they get a lot of water from their daily veg. Make sure the bottle is at a good height for him/her and you could try showing him/her how it works to encourage! For introductions - use a neutral space, with hay, food and open ended hideys. If you look up guinea pig bonding or guinea pig introductions you'll find a lot of videos 😀 best of luck!
@@SqueakDreams thank you so much !!
My guinea pigs are Dash, Ginger, Colleen And Thelma Lou
We have two guinea pig we love them the names of our guinea pig Lily and Sally are their names
What about chirping or singing. Two of our three will chirp like birds especially at night. Is this unusual or a warning about anything?
Good one! It is rarely heard and people are really not sure what it means. I heard it last from Willow at my old house, 5 years ago!
I really want 2 cute little piggies but I’m a little scared that I won’t be able to get any from a breeder and I don’t want them from a pet shop unless it’s the last option because I dont want the piggies to be missexed
I have two guinea pigs one’s older and one’s new I’m scared of introducing them together and they just start fighting
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i have a guniea pig named Phoebe too that's so cute i'm gonna cry-
Now I feel like a bad owner😂 I just adopted two piggies and the first couple days one of them bit me everyday😂 he broke the skin everything😂☠️
My herd run away from me and gather in a group chattering their teeth esp if I have to take them out for hair trims, etc!
Ah yes - I think there's a special sort of teeth chattering reserved for us humans when we try and do something that makes them mad 😂
I'm watching yer videos,cus a neighbor dumped a Guinea Pig on Me,,Purina makes a Nice Green & Cream colored litter box..With Under Catch Tray,& Slit Like Floor Grate..Easy Cleaning,daily
#LuckyDBunny has a new Piggy friend named Suerte
Hi sadly one of my piggies passed away 3 days ago . Should I get a new guinea pig sooner or later as my other guinea pig is on there own. I don't want to replace the passed piggy but don't want the other one to be lonely :(
I'm so sorry for your loss, it's always hard but when you have a single piggie left it can be tough on them too. When Sprite was alone she lived in the living room where we could interact with her more for 3 weeks or so until we got new piggie friends for her. I would say don't leave it too long and do think about whether you get a youngster or whether adopting an older piggie might be better depending on your situation and owning pigs in the future :)
Do you know what can fix this
Chirping!
Yes chirping is indeed strange!! I didn't include because so rare but perhaps I should have!
It was heartbreaking to see one of my piggies eyeball licking his dead cagemate. I put the deceased piggy in the cage for a short amount of time, so the other one could say goodbye and have a sniff. Sometimes they seem to keep looking for their lost friends, not realizing they have passed, so I wanted to prevent that from happening.
They're still not gonna understand, sadly.
@@seajay632 Could be the case 😔
I'm so sorry for your loss. What you saw is fairly common for piggies to do, if the eyelicking is show of affection we could see it as them saying goodbye to their friend. Whether or not they understand the passing of a cage mate or not is another question, they certainly don't see it from our perspective, but I feel they know and understand on some level. They are social creatures who live in herds and with that will come instincts for how to behave and act when family members/mates have passed away. Signs of grief and depression after a cage mate passing are also reported by many piggie owners. ❤
@@SqueakDreams Thank you for your answer
Hi
My piggy bit me but it was because I trade to brod him with another piggy and I separated him with my head, don't worry he didn't mean to hurt me and love me very much
My guinea pig jaut died today it's so hard still crying
I have one who barbers the others. She is always doing it.
As much as it breaks my heart, I must say I am not happy with the way my parents have set up the home for the guinea pig, we have a single young male around 11-12 weeks old, the cage is far too small. Is there any way I could convince my parents to get a bigger cage?
definitely try and also get another pig!!
@@theonewithallthepets8503 i've tried but their excuse is who will clean all the mess, :( plus we dont have a big enough or enough rooms to put a bigger guinea pig cage. My mom pretty much went in blind into taking care of a guinea pig
Freezing seems to be "piggie.exe has stopped working"
Haha yes definitely!!!
should I introduce them
I have two male pigs and one of them had a eye inflamination and the other pig licked the "bad" eyeball, and I don't know if they are such a friends or he likes that medications🤷♀️🤣
Haha yes, it seemed like a friendly gesture but it made me worried 😂
My guinea pig his name is Luke he chews the bars a lot and my parents won't let me get him another friend after my sisters one passed we had a little funeral and there was lots of crying and I also sadly had to remove Luke's little hiddy hole because he couldn't enter it anymore and I kinda wanna know what to do if I can't get him a friend because I'm gonna try and save up money and get Luke a new hiddy hole so that shouldn't be a problem for too long.
I keep telling my dad that guinea pigs are social animals and need a friend but he keeps saying no that he (my guinea pig) is fine by himself
Ultimately your dad is the responsible owner but do keep trying to persuade him that piggies are better off in pairs 😊
My guinea pig was once bitting the bars of their cage, he never normally does, I realized that I had left some veggies just outside the cage! 😅
Awh yes! Demanding veggies is an excellent reason to bite the bars!
I have a guinea pig she keeps squealing every time I try everything doesn’t work I have a she has a roommate but he’s aggressive so I put him in another cage I’m getting her a new friend today
she may be ill pr of your other pig isn't neutered they may have bred she may be pregnant take her to a vet in case
@@theonewithallthepets8503 ok tThanks
@@theonewithallthepets8503 SHE
She’s having her kids in five days I Can’t Believe it
@@Smiles853 omg congrats
What if my guinea pigs is pooping to much😬 Like poops just doesn't stops😅
Guinea pigs poop a lot! So I don’t think you should worry about it!
Haha it feels like that sometimes! 😂
Yes my skinny does it.
From all I’ve learned it’s basically a non-stop bean production line! 😁
Is it normal for my male piggies to mount each Other? You only said the female piggies.