Is Music Good For Guinea Pigs?

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I was recently searching on YouTube and came across a video with calming guinea pig music. I played it and soon after, I became sleepy and relaxed myself. It may have worked on me, but would it work on piggies? What are your guys thoughts?
 
My guinea pigs occupy my bedroom and I love music etc myself so they are often exposed to music or youtube videos. I think it's good for them- for instance when I got Mo I would play music or youtube videos so he could get used to talking etc and it did bring him out of his shell a bit. If I was out I could just leave some music playing etc. Neither of my guinea pigs are scared now if I play music and I suppose it's just another 'household' noise that they've gotten used too. It also helped with the whole laptime sessions because they weren't scared of the TV.
 
One of mine isn't bothered, Higgins however hates music played via YouTube - he runs and hides, but loves the radio and when my partner gets his guitar out and plays live for him - he looks almost mesmerized!
 
One of my piggies has started listening to Hip Hop... they are now wearing a gold chain with their initials on and have invested in one of those American cars with the crazy suspension. I don't see this ending well..
 
my piggies tried to nibble my recorder scores :evil: maybe the recorder is not their favourite instrument... but at least they are not wearing a gold chain with crosses and skulls!!:eek:
 
My boys will sit quietly and happily listen to rock and metal, but switch on some pop music and then the rumbles start! I would end up with a pair who prefer Halestorm to ABBA...

They also really like blues. Emphasis on really. That probably says far too much about me in general, heh.
 
I dont know about piggies but there is research that suggests dogs find classical music more calming than modern music.
 
Willow and Bracken don't take much notice of music but Spike and Peanut hate it, they hide, teeth chatter and rumble! Before I had S&P I listened to a lot of music and often had the radio on if I was in the kitchen.I hardly ever play music now it's not worth the stink eye.
 
My 2 are fine with the tv on, and my husband playing his bass guitar. They hate music or speech played on a phone or ipod though. They chatter their teeth or run and hide.
I have to wear headphones if I want to listen to anything while in the kitchen!
 
my piggy lives in my room and his cage is next to a radio, he likes to sit on top of his house in the corner nearest to the radio and listen to it! he seems to enjoy classical music :D
 
Roclibrarian said:
My 2 are fine with the tv on, and my husband playing his bass guitar. They hate music or speech played on a phone or ipod though. They chatter their teeth or run and hide.
I have to wear headphones if I want to listen to anything while in the kitchen!
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Yeah, I dread calling the bank. They hate the automated female voice and I get rumbles at it every time.
 
My boys spend their days when I'm out listening to the radio, they're especially fond of Elaine Paige and the jazz show, there's a lot of popcorning during those two! I can only surmise they're frustrated musical theatre stars who long for the coffee shops of the 60's?!
 
We usually have the radio on when we're in and busying about so leave it on whilst we're out to simulate normality (if there's such a thing in our household!). Certainly seem more settled with a bit of low volume background radio, must just make them feel that it's business as usual. We once had a piggy who whistled along to Dolly Parton....no one else, just Dolly :love:
 
Mine don't show any interest to music or TV background noise at all. And I have a teenage son learning electric guitar, so they certainly hear plenty of it!
 
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