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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I think this post belongs somewhere else.

You can't just post a picture of an empty box without further explanation.

[–] threelonmusketeers 9 points 1 week ago

"If I can't see you, you can't see me"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Shhh

I love Guinea pigs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was always amazed by how utterly stupid an organism can be. And that thing survives somehow in nature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not anymore 😬, they're extinct in the wild.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

No way!

Wikipedia suggests montane guinea pig as a wild ancestor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Piggies are extingt in the wild?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is some, as @[email protected] pointed out, but they are very different to the domesticated guinea pig.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

As to be expected tbh

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 1 week ago

Isn't that kind of like saying "poodles are extinct in the wild", when there were never wild poodles in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Makes sense, you're right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That's so cute!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One time when transporting my piggies, I forgot to cover the travel cage since we were just going from one side of town to the other. Hawk flew over the car, and poor Snickers lost his mind. He tried to shove his face under Oreo, like a great dane trying to hide from a thunderstorm under a couch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I like how your amazing guinea pig naming skills are just taken for granted in this story.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Op you can’t just post an empty cubicle on a guinea pig community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When my guinea pigs are scared they both try to hide under each other

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Same! Or one time one of them got a fright, and ran into a window thing on a hut. she got her head stuck.