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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

I think this post belongs somewhere else.

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

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

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Shhh

I love Guinea pigs

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months 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.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 6 points 2 months ago

That's so cute!

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Piggies are extingt in the wild?!

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There is some, as @lnxtx@feddit.nl pointed out, but they are very different to the domesticated guinea pig.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

As to be expected tbh

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Makes sense, you're right.

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

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

No way!

Wikipedia suggests montane guinea pig as a wild ancestor.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months 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.