It's super cute. The ones I had knew that we brought lettuce and vegetables home in plastic bags, which meant that they associated the sound of rustling plastic bags with food. Whenever they heard someone rustle a plastic bag anywhere, they'd start wheaking.
My thirty-year (so far!) journey with guinea pigs also began with a third-grade classroom piggie! I started reading up on them (and I brought him veggies every morning with the permission of the teacher) and begged my parents and a year later, I had my first piggie!
Hey mine too! Except... that teacher didn't do an ounce of research. Third grade really taught me the lesson 'you can really judge a person's character by how they treat animals.'
great video! but in my country, there are wild guineapigs called cuis, they get out to receive the sun each morning! my brother saw them while traveling at dawn. so cute!!.! 🥔 💗 🐹
6:27 "help i'm stuck" Lol! I'm sure she could back out but she looks dazed at her hay fortune. Great video Scotty, guinea pigs are so precious and their history is rich! I also thought the editing was really good.
I just love guinea pigs so much, they have such beautiful and docile personalities. They have so much love to give, they love everyone and anyone and best of all they have no ounce of aggression.
Thanks, Scott! Very informative and lots of fun. I LOVE my boys Teddy and Zen-Zen. I take great care of them. They're right around 5 1/2 years old and still going strong. I get them checked out by a vet every six months.
Can't wait to go to Peru and eat a Guinea pig. On a more serious note, I'm sure real pigs taste better though. Also, beef has the highest nutritional content of any food, including all vegetables. In addition to that, Cows, pigs and chickens normally consume plant matter not edible for humans and turn it into highly nutritional meat, that is more calorie dense and a good product.
I love and adore guinea pigs. I've had seven hamsters and 7 guinea pigs, wow. The wheeking was always great to hear when I got home from school. I was only ten and managed to tame a guinea pig. Sadly all my guinea pigs died when my sister fed them a toxic plant :(
This video makes a well organized and detailed exposition on what cuys are and their history. As a Peruvian who loves them both as a source of food and companions, I approve of this. You have my gratitude.
Your Guinea Pig videos are my favourite! You’re my go-to whenever I have piggy related questions or just feel like seeing happy pigs. ☺️ Thank you for your great videos and the care and compassion you give to Guinea Pigs, and all animals ❤
Scotty this is the best video I've ever seen you do! I LOVE it! A mix of history, science, love, and information! Don't worry, I love your others too (especially how-to videos) 💛💛 Awesome job AGAIN!
Scotty I love your videos !! Keep up the great work . There aren’t allot of selfless caring people like you that devote so much time & effort to these cute sweet animals.
Great!!! You got the book I was going to send you by Edmunds Morales. I got it way back when I was in college when I was studying Anthopology. I found it fascinating and disturbing. It lead to me getting my 2nd guinea pig who ended up living 10 years and was semi free range. Named her Cuy but she wasn't a Cuy breed. Anyway glad you got the book and made the video!
Thank you for this making this video. I have 3 piggies at home and I never knew their histories until today. Love them guinea pigs, they are so cute and help ease my depression.
I believe cavies are still found in the wild. The domesticated pig has been bred for so long, it probably explains why they can't really jump or climb. Also, I think it is ironic that these furry potatoes are found in the land where potatoes come from.
I was under the impression that there is still a breed of wild cuy that still lives in the Andes completely independent of people. I might be totally wrong though.
This video was great. I learned a lot about guinea pigs. Thank you so much for taking the time to teach us all. Lots of love to you and all the piggies. Be well and stay safe.
YAUSS! Scotty you ARE THE MAN! You just made my LIFE w/this video! For years I’ve told people that black peegs were considered especially “magical” (curative) and some ppl didn’t really believe that they were used to diagnose illness. I LOVE peegs and their history and this vid is AWESOME! You always have great pig content and I really appreciated your vid on accidental plastic ingestion. One of my peegs recently got a hold of the hay bag 😑 so it was very reassuring to hear some pro advice 💕💕
I’m glad that you were respectful about the culture, I’m vegetarian and would never eat a Guinea pig but I can’t see how our culture can be outraged that another culture eats them, when our culture eats animals themselves.
I'm Caribbean and I can tell you that guinea pigs being eaten is not a caribbean thing... mostly latin american. I dont know a single CARICOM island that consumes guinea pigs.. but I could just be clueless idk
Love your videos... Wish you and Saskia would subtitle them so the information could get to more people... Specially here in México where they're so neglected
You can eat a varried diet that includes meat, the important thing is to make sure you're getting you're meat from crualty free (and local if possible) places
@@ScottysAnimals fair enough. I dont like that things have to die for me to eat, but death is a part of life, weather its plants or animals (to be clear, in not saying that you shouldn't be vegan, i would absolutely be vegan if I could, and i respect the heck out of anyone who can stick to a vegan diet)
I was really into it until the lecture bit about going vegan. Had to roll my eyes at that part lol. Either way, interesting to know some ancestry facts about my pets.
Yeah, all animals are friends is also a bunch of hogwash. A damn tiger shark won’t do much of anything friendly if it comes across you. Viewing all creatures as the same is childish.
My boyfriend has 4 guinea pigs, he's always had guinea pigs growing up. He's trained them to come when he calls them and they all share the same bed at night. ( the guinea pigs I mean ) I have my two puppies and as of two weeks ago a kitten.
Stating that guinea pigs no longer exist in the wild is wrong. C. porcellus is not found naturally in the wild; it is likely descended from closely related species of cavies, such as C. aperea, C. fulgida, and C. tschudii, which are still commonly found in various regions of South America. Look up wild guinea pigs on RUclips and you will find several videos. They are the same color as rats and mice and look like slimmer versions of the ones we keep for pets currently. I appreciate that you love and care for guinea pigs as do I, but please make sure your information is correct.
Plant based all the way🥬🥦🥕🍒🍌👍🏻. Well who knew? Some brilliant facts there😀 personally I quite like the idea of a guinea pig being my doctor 👨⚕️... my doctor would think I was strange if I gave him a sniff and a kiss 👃🏻😏 ...guinea’s love it 😍. Thanks Scotty👍🏻 for sharing...we are about to go into lockdown again🇬🇧 so more time with my herd🥰. Stay safe everyone😷
@@InterpolBulliedMe Studies have shown that a vegan diet is actually no better than a diet that includes meat. It's not about the consumption of meat, it's how meat and what kind.
Used to breed them as a young teen. Got 50 cents per. Curious what they would taste like. Not curious enough to go to the trouble though. Most any meat is good though...cant see why they wouldn't be as well.
In the U S they are pets and we love them. All animals have feelings and deserve a good life. Meat is produced by force. Research proper nutrition to see it is unnecessary violence.
My auntie is from Peru and she's mentioned eating guinea pigs and how lambs are used as a fashion piece as well, they get snuggled up in the scarves 😂😂❤
Nice material Scotty :) I have heard that the WHITE within guineapigs was not seen often, and was among laboratory ones, and 'they' have used fur colour to see how the guinea pigs gens spread all around the world. I wonder if that is true. I mean, looking at how many pigs get some white fur would tell them how the population spreads and breeds .
vegetables are very good for a healthy diet, but, we still need meat to live, eating meat is important for your brain, we don't eat meat just for being bad, we need it, i recommend a balanced diet, eatinng, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and cereals
The healthiest diet is the Mediterranean diet because it takes from multiple food groups the vegetarian Is not as good but it’s still okay but the vegan diet is not a good diet because it cuts too many food groups out
❤️ LOVE ❣️❣️❣️🥰🥰 Wow❣️ And, I do not think you made a mistake❣️ They went to happy homes and even if you feel that as many need homes, and it is not good practice typically, they received your love ❤️ 💗💗💗🥰🥰
This was such a great video! I have books.of.guinea pigs.and.have never read this info.before. Also,.I.live in Puerto Rico and never knew there were guinea pigs.here in.antique.times...always.thought.they.were.here.only.from.pet shops in more.modern times. Thanks.for.all.this cool info! Ps...Bonus on this.video...seeing Scotty.with.short hair😃😃😃😃
This was the coolest video! Fascinating information--I had no idea that they had involvement in the history of healing, too. Thank you for sharing all of this with us!
Thank you for sharing that! If you ever get any pictures please send them to me through the contact page on my website. It goes to my email and when I respond you can send me photos
This was the most educational video I ever seen today Scotty keep up the good work and as for guinea pig history of how I'm fall in love with those little buggers just like you it was in school a teacher of mine had a pet guinea pig I just thought he was the cutest little thing ever I kept bugging my mom for guinea pig up until the point she gave in and well we didn't know what the time we needed two guinea pigs so one didn't get lonely sadly I only had one guinea pig up until 6 years ago my last two were brothers furball and cuddles
Thanks love God bless you and your guinea pig family and I appreciate what I learned there thank you so much for that I just love watching you and you got such a caring loving heart for guinea pigs and all the other animals I've seen you come across even a snake a desert rattlesnake I think it was was one and of course Bb and I know you said you had a fish so forth so I meant that was supposed to say BB okay thank you God bless you all
Guinea pigs: the food source that was so cute people made them pets.
I would of just felt too bad to eat them like how I feel bad for cows or lambs but I don't have them as pets.... YET haha😝
Europeans were probably like we have our own livestock lets keep these little guys as pets
same with cows, hores, chickens, and meny more xD
In Peru they still eat them
@@obedpadilla5264 😢
I’ve never had a Guinea pig but I think they’re adorable and love their little “weep weep weep” noises!
The Weep noise is actually called Wheaking, they make the noise to get attention or when food is heard. :)
@@Just1Bunny How cute!!!
It's super cute. The ones I had knew that we brought lettuce and vegetables home in plastic bags, which meant that they associated the sound of rustling plastic bags with food. Whenever they heard someone rustle a plastic bag anywhere, they'd start wheaking.
If you lived in my country I would give you one I got 7 we had like 20 in total over time.
@@sambunyan274 That is so nice and generous of you to say!
My thirty-year (so far!) journey with guinea pigs also began with a third-grade classroom piggie! I started reading up on them (and I brought him veggies every morning with the permission of the teacher) and begged my parents and a year later, I had my first piggie!
Hey mine too! Except... that teacher didn't do an ounce of research. Third grade really taught me the lesson 'you can really judge a person's character by how they treat animals.'
@Scotty’s Animals, Scotty you are such a kind soul! Thank you for helping these precious creatures! 😊
great video! but in my country, there are wild guineapigs called cuis, they get out to receive the sun each morning! my brother saw them while traveling at dawn. so cute!!.! 🥔 💗 🐹
WHAAAAAAT!! Which country are you from?? I'm curious
@@anjalipriya4441 in South America they are called cuys, and as i know there is a large population today in Perú
i eat cuy, Colombia momento
They aren't wild. When domestic animals escape, they are called feral. Any actual wild cavies are different species from the domestic guinea pig.
@@TheWoollyFrog there is only one species! Several breeds though
I always thought they started out as beans evolving into furry little friends :d
True true
Haha now you know
Ha ha ha very qute of You to say. Little beans evolving. ❤️
@@marianordenvald Some people I know called mine potato. Another called her a... *turd*
I call them potatoes
Rubbing a plump piggie on me always makes a booboo feel better so that checks out. xD
cute
6:27 "help i'm stuck" Lol! I'm sure she could back out but she looks dazed at her hay fortune.
Great video Scotty, guinea pigs are so precious and their history is rich! I also thought the editing was really good.
I didn’t know Queen Elizabeth had a pet guineapig till this day intrigued already
That painting actually looked like a little white stoat didn't it!
The cool things we didn't know am I right?
It is an Ermin in the picture of Queen Elizabeth.
@@brittletip8191 agree.
@@brittletip8191 yeah that did not look like a guinea pig lol
I just love guinea pigs so much, they have such beautiful and docile personalities. They have so much love to give, they love everyone and anyone and best of all they have no ounce of aggression.
People nowadays eat 100 millions guinea pigs per year
Guinea pigs are my spirit animal, and its good to see someone else as enthusiastic with their history
This was a great history lesson on guinea pigs. Thank you, God bless
Nice mini "Documentary" - good content - your voice is very professional - "Voice Overs" could be in your future!
Finally actual in-depth history on guinea pigs. Thank you Scotty! Love your work and education 💕!!
Through the domestication process, Guinea pigs can hear a plastic bag rustle from up to two miles away..........
Thanks, Scott! Very informative and lots of fun. I LOVE my boys Teddy and Zen-Zen. I take great care of them. They're right around 5 1/2 years old and still going strong. I get them checked out by a vet every six months.
You’ve definitely helped me give my Guinea pigs the best life Scotty. Thank you!!! ♥️
Dude....im like you. I rescued 1 and now I have 6. Im so glad people like you still exist. Keep up the good work bro.
Can't wait to go to Peru and eat a Guinea pig. On a more serious note, I'm sure real pigs taste better though. Also, beef has the highest nutritional content of any food, including all vegetables. In addition to that, Cows, pigs and chickens normally consume plant matter not edible for humans and turn it into highly nutritional meat, that is more calorie dense and a good product.
That’s just scientifically inaccurate 😅
Animals can be friend and food, I don't discriminate.
Try to
Fascinating! Thank you, I love learning about History, good or bad it's the only way we learn and hopefully do better ☺️
I love and adore guinea pigs. I've had seven hamsters and 7 guinea pigs, wow. The wheeking was always great to hear when I got home from school. I was only ten and managed to tame a guinea pig. Sadly all my guinea pigs died when my sister fed them a toxic plant :(
Sorry to hear, what plant was that , so others can avoid if you remember, thanks, ,
This video makes a well organized and detailed exposition on what cuys are and their history. As a Peruvian who loves them both as a source of food and companions, I approve of this.
You have my gratitude.
Your Guinea Pig videos are my favourite! You’re my go-to whenever I have piggy related questions or just feel like seeing happy pigs. ☺️ Thank you for your great videos and the care and compassion you give to Guinea Pigs, and all animals ❤
Scotty this is the best video I've ever seen you do! I LOVE it! A mix of history, science, love, and information! Don't worry, I love your others too (especially how-to videos) 💛💛 Awesome job AGAIN!
I thought it was his best video too!
This was a very beautiful and kinda sad history of guinea pigs! Love it scotty!!
Great video Scotty! Good summary of the history of guinea pigs and nicely illustrated 👍
Scotty I love your videos !! Keep up the great work . There aren’t allot of selfless caring people like you that devote so much time & effort to these cute sweet animals.
I would never want to eat a plant based diet only.
Scotty,
Thanks for the interesting video. I didn’t know about the use of diagnosing.
I like the artwork as well.
Angie
Great!!! You got the book I was going to send you by Edmunds Morales. I got it way back when I was in college when I was studying Anthopology. I found it fascinating and disturbing. It lead to me getting my 2nd guinea pig who ended up living 10 years and was semi free range. Named her Cuy but she wasn't a Cuy breed. Anyway glad you got the book and made the video!
Thank you for this making this video. I have 3 piggies at home and I never knew their histories until today. Love them guinea pigs, they are so cute and help ease my depression.
Tear jerking
So happy you are sprouting
And tuning in
To living peacefully without eating others😊
I love my guinea pigs! I love them so much! ❤️😭😭😭
I would love some of these old pictures of the guinea pig portraits and hang them on the wall. I gotta show all my guinea pigs their history.
I believe cavies are still found in the wild. The domesticated pig has been bred for so long, it probably explains why they can't really jump or climb. Also, I think it is ironic that these furry potatoes are found in the land where potatoes come from.
What an interesting video ! Beautifully made too ! Scotty is a real artist !
This is actually a very interesting video. I like learning their history.
God bless you scotty. Animals are frirends indeed. Good luck in the world
I was under the impression that there is still a breed of wild cuy that still lives in the Andes completely independent of people. I might be totally wrong though.
This video was great. I learned a lot about guinea pigs. Thank you so much for taking the time to teach us all. Lots of love to you and all the piggies. Be well and stay safe.
Thanks for history.Guinea pig very cute pets.I had skinny pig,was very sweet and attached to me!Love them!
Look at that young Scott!
YAUSS! Scotty you ARE THE MAN! You just made my LIFE w/this video! For years I’ve told people that black peegs were considered especially “magical” (curative) and some ppl didn’t really believe that they were used to diagnose illness. I LOVE peegs and their history and this vid is AWESOME! You always have great pig content and I really appreciated your vid on accidental plastic ingestion. One of my peegs recently got a hold of the hay bag 😑 so it was very reassuring to hear some pro advice 💕💕
Omg look at the old furry potatoes!! Sweet babies!!
Side bar.. Look at Scotty!! Such a baby face!!
I’m glad that you were respectful about the culture, I’m vegetarian and would never eat a Guinea pig but I can’t see how our culture can be outraged that another culture eats them, when our culture eats animals themselves.
APPLAUDS...
WONDERFUL
I'm Caribbean and I can tell you that guinea pigs being eaten is not a caribbean thing... mostly latin american. I dont know a single CARICOM island that consumes guinea pigs.. but I could just be clueless idk
Love your videos... Wish you and Saskia would subtitle them so the information could get to more people... Specially here in México where they're so neglected
I guess it's time I pick up my guinea pigs and rub them on me. I like holding my boys, they remind me to take a deep breath and stay calm.
Queen Elizabeth also had ferrets. She loved ferrets! Ferrets are another awesome animal.
I think the animal in the painting is likely a stoat. I was wondering if anyone in the comments was going to notice.
This is the best video on RUclips
2:42 look at the little guinea pig village 😂💕 now want to make little brick houses for my pigs lol
You can eat a varried diet that includes meat, the important thing is to make sure you're getting you're meat from crualty free (and local if possible) places
It depends on your definition of cruel.
@@ScottysAnimals fair enough. I dont like that things have to die for me to eat, but death is a part of life, weather its plants or animals (to be clear, in not saying that you shouldn't be vegan, i would absolutely be vegan if I could, and i respect the heck out of anyone who can stick to a vegan diet)
I was really into it until the lecture bit about going vegan. Had to roll my eyes at that part lol. Either way, interesting to know some ancestry facts about my pets.
Yeah, all animals are friends is also a bunch of hogwash. A damn tiger shark won’t do much of anything friendly if it comes across you. Viewing all creatures as the same is childish.
Literally 💀
ya that was annoying!
My boyfriend has 4 guinea pigs, he's always had guinea pigs growing up. He's trained them to come when he calls them and they all share the same bed at night. ( the guinea pigs I mean ) I have my two puppies and as of two weeks ago a kitten.
Stating that guinea pigs no longer exist in the wild is wrong. C. porcellus is not found naturally in the wild; it is likely descended from closely related species of cavies, such as C. aperea, C. fulgida, and C. tschudii, which are still commonly found in various regions of South America. Look up wild guinea pigs on RUclips and you will find several videos. They are the same color as rats and mice and look like slimmer versions of the ones we keep for pets currently. I appreciate that you love and care for guinea pigs as do I, but please make sure your information is correct.
best video yet
Plant based all the way🥬🥦🥕🍒🍌👍🏻. Well who knew? Some brilliant facts there😀 personally I quite like the idea of a guinea pig being my doctor 👨⚕️... my doctor would think I was strange if I gave him a sniff and a kiss 👃🏻😏 ...guinea’s love it 😍. Thanks Scotty👍🏻 for sharing...we are about to go into lockdown again🇬🇧 so more time with my herd🥰. Stay safe everyone😷
I'm gonna eat extra meat because you're vegan also PLANTLIVESMATTER
@@InterpolBulliedMe Studies have shown that a vegan diet is actually no better than a diet that includes meat. It's not about the consumption of meat, it's how meat and what kind.
Vegetables lack vitamin B12 and some proteins. This is why you need a balanced diet and not just one way or another.
I love Guinea pigs
I HAVE LOOKED THIS UP FOR YEARS. THANK YOU SCOTT
I need someone to paint me with my guinea pigs now to hang up in my house
I learned so much fun to visit from this video
Used to breed them as a young teen. Got 50 cents per. Curious what they would taste like. Not curious enough to go to the trouble though. Most any meat is good though...cant see why they wouldn't be as well.
In the U S they are pets and we love them. All animals have feelings and deserve a good life. Meat is produced by force. Research proper nutrition to see it is unnecessary violence.
Very informative!
My auntie is from Peru and she's mentioned eating guinea pigs and how lambs are used as a fashion piece as well, they get snuggled up in the scarves 😂😂❤
I love this
Nice material Scotty :)
I have heard that the WHITE within guineapigs was not seen often, and was among laboratory ones, and 'they' have used fur colour to see how the guinea pigs gens spread all around the world. I wonder if that is true. I mean, looking at how many pigs get some white fur would tell them how the population spreads and breeds .
I havent know the history of guinea pig! :0
Thanks for telling this!❤
i didn't know scott turned into a history teacher
hehe LOL!
Love that plant based shout out!!🥬🥦
vegetables are very good for a healthy diet, but, we still need meat to live, eating meat is important for your brain, we don't eat meat just for being bad, we need it, i recommend a balanced diet, eatinng, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and cereals
The healthiest diet is the Mediterranean diet because it takes from multiple food groups the vegetarian Is not as good but it’s still okay but the vegan diet is not a good diet because it cuts too many food groups out
❤️ LOVE ❣️❣️❣️🥰🥰 Wow❣️ And, I do not think you made a mistake❣️ They went to happy homes and even if you feel that as many need homes, and it is not good practice typically, they received your love ❤️ 💗💗💗🥰🥰
Ty for the info to learn about our loved ones❤
Thank you Scotty.
Beam me up Scotty! very nice video, and greetz from Southwest Germany!
This was such a great video! I have books.of.guinea pigs.and.have never read this info.before.
Also,.I.live in Puerto Rico and never knew there were guinea pigs.here in.antique.times...always.thought.they.were.here.only.from.pet shops in more.modern times.
Thanks.for.all.this cool info!
Ps...Bonus on this.video...seeing Scotty.with.short hair😃😃😃😃
The first time I ever heard a guine pig make sound it was my sister's and she had it in my room. I didn't know what I was hearing and it scared me. 😂
I just learn something new every time!
Very awesome!! Thank you Scotty!
Interesting, but the preachy plug for vegetarianism was kinda cringe.
Stay based my friend
This was the coolest video! Fascinating information--I had no idea that they had involvement in the history of healing, too. Thank you for sharing all of this with us!
wow ! awesome video . ty Scotty
Cool vid buddy
Thanks for the history lesson, Scott. Very enjoyable. 🐾
Friends not food❤️food not friends... That is the question. Not for me but for many, still. Great, this. Thank You💚Maria
* raises right fin- Er, hand *
Pigs are friends, not food.
@@Eork149 ❤️
They DO EXIST in wild.Im from south america and yes they're grey colour,wild and run very fast and look like mini capibaras
Thank you for sharing that! If you ever get any pictures please send them to me through the contact page on my website. It goes to my email and when I respond you can send me photos
My piggies are royalty, lol!! Great video, Scotty!
When he said "animals are friends not food". *clicks subscribe * 💖💖💖
This video is awesome! Also, I love when you mentioned that animals are friends not food and about a plant-based diet! 🐹
Great video. It's good to hear Elizabeth 1 had guinea pigs! I never knew that! XX
That's why became PETS , first Queens then Aristocrats
This was the most educational video I ever seen today Scotty keep up the good work and as for guinea pig history of how I'm fall in love with those little buggers just like you it was in school a teacher of mine had a pet guinea pig I just thought he was the cutest little thing ever I kept bugging my mom for guinea pig up until the point she gave in and well we didn't know what the time we needed two guinea pigs so one didn't get lonely sadly I only had one guinea pig up until 6 years ago my last two were brothers furball and cuddles
Not a only cats were worshiped as guinea pig
Now I'm curious what a guinea pig tastes like.
Chicken this is not a joke they apparently taste like chicken
great video scotty!! really enjoyed it
Awesome research, Scotty! Super interesting!! 💜😍🐹
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing all that cool info!
Nice transition of earth and news paper globe drawing !!!
I don't think the animal with Queen Elizabeth at 4:36 is a GP. It looks more like a ferret with the tail hidden.
Thanks love God bless you and your guinea pig family and I appreciate what I learned there thank you so much for that I just love watching you and you got such a caring loving heart for guinea pigs and all the other animals I've seen you come across even a snake a desert rattlesnake I think it was was one and of course Bb and I know you said you had a fish so forth so I meant that was supposed to say BB okay thank you God bless you all