Pat Shields
Adult Guinea Pig
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2011
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- 1,151
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- Location
- USA MO, Ft. Leonard Wood area
I was holding Salvatore recently, and he began licking my thumb. That felt sooooooooooooooooo weird.
haha - it's really weird at first! Jeff is a licker...he's mad...
What's REALLY disconcerting - is being licked by a hamster! My Norman (RIP) was more like a mini dog (or guinea pig!) than a hamster, and he used to groom and lick me. Once, he was sat on my shoulder grooming my eyelashes! I miss that furry little beast![]()
aww that sounds brill, hope Joyce feels secure enough to be like that with me one day x
Oh I dunno...Normy was fairly.... "special" :x
He was weird from day one but such a great little thing. Never bit anyone, you could do anything to him. He used to run around the house free range and go in his cage at night time!
That reminds me, I still need to get my Norman tattoo!
lol you are going to be covered!
Other Sport billy here. Treacle never licks me, she just bites me.
I had a pet bantam rooster once who thought I was simply the big chicken who always knew where the food was. So your piggy probably thinks you're the big pig who knows where the parsley is and can make it magically appear.I like to think he thinks I'm a guinea pigand thats why hes so dominant
I'm glad you said that. Redemption, until very recently, has always had a round salt and mineral lick block in his cage (the block fell apart last time I cleaned the cage), and I have seen him taste it, and he has never licked me. But Salvatore has never had a salt block in his cage, so what you said tells me that it's time to go to the piggie store and get a couple of salt blocks, or maybe rinse a parsley leaf or two in some light salt water.All of mine do it all of the time, I thought it was really cute and them showing some love but it's apparently something they do to taste salt or something, because of the sweat glands......?