The aggressive guinea pig noises began suddenly while the guinea pigs were loudly chewing collard greens. Acorn and Pumpkin were having another noisy fight. Usually this stops with aggressive sounds like teeth chattering, but today Acorn was ready to attack to defend her food. Despite being a small pig, she mustered a mighty jumping bite that can only be witnessed in super slow motion. Pumpkin never saw it coming.
In response, Zucchin decides it's time to flee, taking an entire leaf for herself. Butternut just seems confused as usual.
Don't worry, the pigs are OK and getting along since their fight! If anything, Pumpkin is just embarrassed she got tackled in front of the whole herd. Guinea pigs have minor fights while bonding to establish dominance and set the pecking order. Acorn is growing and getting stronger so she's restarting old fights to advance in the pig rankings.
WHAT’S PIGS?
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In June 2019 we adopted five pigs from Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue. They are cute herbivorous pets with funny social interactions. We film all their behaviors, from cute guinea pig noises to eating sounds, playing with their food to sleeping with their eyes open, and occasional fighting. So far they have been most popular for their loud wheeking and rumblestrutting and their ridiculous guinea pig fights!
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MEET THE PIG FAMILY
Spaghett is the boar of the herd. The rest of the pigs are females, but he’s a neutered male so they won’t be breeding. Sorry, no pregnant or baby guinea pigs! Spaghett has orange-brown fur with a white crest on his head and cute red eyes. He goes on morning romps with entertaining popcorning and zoomies. He does a hilarious rumblestrutting dance for the ladies while purring. When pigs argue he trots over to comfort them. He burrows through hay and stands on his back feet like a goofy dinosaur.
Acorn is youngest so we call her little Acorn. She has white, black, and gold fur with a cute mousy face. She’s inquisitive, always wants food, and talks to herself while exploring hay piles. She’s always the last one eating while the others nap. Little Acorn’s special talent is jumping on houses to go on rooftop adventures.
Butternut appears either confused or deep in thought, but we speculate she is just a very philosophical pig. She has white and gold fur. She’s the lowest ranking pig so she stares into space while waiting for other pigs to move. Her hobbies include sleeping and yawning while flopped over with her feet sprawled out. She continues wheeking and squeaking at us after we have already given her food.
Pumpkin has black fur except for white back toes. She looks like a cow, a non-guinea pig, and a rabbit. She has noisy standoffs with little Acorn when Acorn gets too feisty. Pumpkin seems receptive to Spaghett’s rumblestrutting and occasionally she chases him around instead.
Zucchin is oldest and grumpiest. She has white and gray fur with cute red eyes. At first Zucchin fought with Spaghett. There were teeth chattering, nose raising, and hair puffing battles. Now they get along, but Zucchin is still a grouch. Her main hobby is being an eel and lunging at anyone who comes near. She likes to chase other pigs out of their homes, then follow them to another home and chase them out of that one too. But she looks like a cute rat!
THEIR HOME
The pigs live in a custom 4 by 6 foot cage made by merging 3 MidWest Guinea Habitat cages. We cut the seams of the cage bottoms and joined them into one large cage liner. Now we have a triple size MidWest cage! The pigs first lived in the 3 cages connected by ramps.
The bedding is fleece blankets with towels underneath and newspaper on the bottom. Each day we change one third of the bedding and spot clean several times.
The pigs prefer free stuff to actual guinea pig toys. They love to hide under packing paper. A DIY guinea pig house made from a cardboard box is a favorite hidey. They are not interested in most chew toys.
THEIR DIET
Their favorite hay is 3rd cut timothy hay from Small Pet Select. They gobble up guinea pig pellets.
They eat nearly any vegetable. The only thing rejected so far was zucchini. Their favorites are parsley, kale, collard greens, kohlrabi, carrot tops and roots, beets, bell peppers, corn with the husk, and cucumbers. They go nuts for homemade wheatgrass sprouts.