What's the funniest things your piggies have done?

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A couple of mine would be the time Amber squeaked so loud at the vet, that the receptionist came running in thinking it was the fire alarm. (she was just having her nails clipped, and no we didn't draw blood). Or the time I had Sparrow (rip) on my lap facing away from me. He did a big wee and when I exclaimed "Sparrow!" his head turned around like an owl's with the goofiest cheeky grin on his face. Or when Sparrow also once led his wives, Widget and Zora in circles to go through a tunnel again and again.

Guinea pigs are just natural comedians, I keep thinking up moments from past and present pigs that make me laugh.
 
I love threads like this! I've told this story before, but it's worth a repeat in a thread like this.
My Little Dude was resting in his hammock, head down, enjoying the quiet. Chicco - who always likes a good rumblestrut or basically any other attempt at dominance over his cage mates - so over he sauntered to Little Dude and tried to engage him in a chin off. Without lifting his head, Little Dude opened his mouth and yawned right in Chicco's face. Not one of those aggressive yawns, and I felt he was saying 'yeah, yeah Chicco man, we know you're tough, now p*** off and let me sleep'. It was so funny, more so because it displayed both their personalities to a tee.
 
One time, I saw Buttercup waking up from a nap in his igloo and then, he stopped in the opening of his igloo before walking out and stretched his back legs and yawned like dogs or cats do...I've literally never seen a guinea pig do that! it looked like he was doing yoga
 
One of my pigs once jumped out of her C&C cage in her excitement about dinner.

According to the internet this isn’t possible...

well, I came home from work and she was in the cage, I go to the kitchen, open fridge etc, lots of wheeking and running around, I come in with the food and she’s sitting next to the cage absolutely terrified like she got more than she’d bargained for...

No idea how she did it but she always used to sit on top of things anyway. She used to sit on top of the pigloo for example... she was weird (but ever so sweet)
 
Elthysia said:
One of my pigs once jumped out of her C&C cage in her excitement about dinner.

According to the internet this isn’t possible...

well, I came home from work and she was in the cage, I go to the kitchen, open fridge etc, lots of wheeking and running around, I come in with the food and she’s sitting next to the cage absolutely terrified like she got more than she’d bargained for...

No idea how she did it but she always used to sit on top of things anyway. She used to sit on top of the pigloo for example... she was weird (but ever so sweet)
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Younger piggies can jump HIGH!
 
Elthysia said:
One of my pigs once jumped out of her C&C cage in her excitement about dinner.

According to the internet this isn’t possible...

well, I came home from work and she was in the cage, I go to the kitchen, open fridge etc, lots of wheeking and running around, I come in with the food and she’s sitting next to the cage absolutely terrified like she got more than she’d bargained for...

No idea how she did it but she always used to sit on top of things anyway. She used to sit on top of the pigloo for example... she was weird (but ever so sweet)
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It can be done....and here's the proof. Not one of mine, just remembered seeing it on YouTube
 
Swissgreys said:
We still giggle about the time one of our visitors thought Ruby was dead.
Ruby - Traumatising Small Children Since 2016
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Sometimes I wonder if the forum doesn't need a section for "Oh, Ruby" stories.

I've told this story before, but, my old pig Jake, who was on his own at the time, came with my to my parents house one Christmas. Now they had a dog at the time that couldn't be allowed near any guinea pigs - she wasn't malicious, but she would've had them anyway. So we sneak Jake and his cage into the house, dog doesn't even click on, all's good. Right?
Christmas morning, picture the scene. I woke up about 4am and put my earphones in to listen to some music so I didn't disturb the rest of the house. Now, Jake was very particular about his mealtimes. If you were a half second late, he'd wake up the street in protest. My flat also shared a living room wall with a house with 3 rottweilers. Jake was used to dog noise. He'd never met a dog, but the noise didn't bother him.
This was important, because I didn't realise what time it was and Jake did his usual scream the house down. And then the dog, who had no idea he was even in the house til this point, went ballistic, because there was an intruder in the house and everyone needed warned. Jake then promptly started getting louder because he wasn't going to let some pesky dog drown his protests out.
Did I mention this all went down about 7am? :))

The entire time we stayed there that holiday period, I'd walk out into the landing and shut the door behind me to find the dog sitting on the landing staring confusedly at the door. "Human thing, what ARE you hiding in that room?"
 
My Finn puts both his paws in his food dish and meditates for some time then dozes off. He also drops his baby carrot while running to his room with it in his mouth, then he comes out of his room looking for his baby carrot. He lives alone in his cage so no one will take his food but he always pretends to run away with his baby carrot. Lara does similar things by running away with food in her private cage.
 
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A couple stories I have of my pigs:

My boy Gus gets really, really excited about meal time and always starts climbing out of his c&c cage to get to the food. He’s never actually gotten out, but my grandad thinks it’s just hilarious.

We have a doggy door to our side yard but have it blocked off to the rest of the yard since we don’t want our blind dog falling in the pool. When I keep my pigs outside in the summer, we rarely let the dogs out of the side yard because my terriers would probably figure out a way in their own and kill them. Anyway, when we do let the dogs out with us to check on the pigs, Gus always tries to make friends with them by running up to them and trying to sniff their noses. He’s very friendly to all creatures and loves exploring. It’s so funny that he just loves everything!
 
cavylover2002 said:
One time, I saw Buttercup waking up from a nap in his igloo and then, he stopped in the opening of his igloo before walking out and stretched his back legs and yawned like dogs or cats do...I've literally never seen a guinea pig do that! it looked like he was doing yoga
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hahaha my Connie does that in the morning. If I'm up too early she will then turn around and go back to sleep.
 
Mavis, who is a larger lady (1.3kg) once escaped during floor time and got in with our skinny pigs (who were just babies). When they enthusiastically ran over to meet her, Mavis ran straight into one of their baby skinny pig size tunnels and got stuck. Her head was out one end of the tunnel and her ample bottom was stuck out of the other, there was no way she was fitting through.
It is very undignified having to be cut out of a seagrass tunnel but I couldn't help laughing.
 
Swissgreys said:
We still giggle about the time one of our visitors thought Ruby was dead.
Ruby - Traumatising Small Children Since 2016
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Omg that had me laughing.

As my Zora got older, she would sleep quite deeply that you had to poke her a bit to wake her up. A bag rustle wasn't enough. Not that I enjoyed bothering her, but she could pull off a very convincing possum and never stopped giving me a fright haha.
 
Frodo has a habit of tipping everything over, food bowls, hay trays, hidey house... anything he can get his nose into. Then he shouts his head off like it’s my fault when he’s got nowhere to nap anymore because everything is upside down. Kind of annoying at 3 in the morning 🙈
Loki also gets super excited over everything and popcorns like crazy, usually into things. Like into the door, or off the edge of his house, which usually leads to him frightening himself and he comes running over to hide on my lap.
They’re cute but not the smartest haha!
 
My sow went to eat a poop from her bottom, done it too fast and flicked it half way over the living room, and hit my wife when she was doing her workout🤣.

My boar Bernie, was itching his bum with his mouth, and almost rolled off of our bed😁 he got dizzy
 
One of mine, Sprout, has decided that he doesn’t like his carrot cottage anymore. He hasn’t chewed it in a long time, and usually just sits inside it, but recently he’s taken to flipping it over and shoving it round the cage. I’ll just be enjoying some quite time when suddenly “rustle, rustle, clang (when it hits the side of the cage), wheek, wheek, WHEEEKK!” He also flips his food bowls, and shouts when they clink together. Woe betide me if I’m late with breakfast (or food in general). Sprout makes it known that he does not approve of being fed late.

Spud uses his part of the cage as a race track. He gets a sudden fit of the zoomies, and just goes round and round, sending bedding flying everywhere.
 
Hadley is scared of bugs... once outside a fly buzzed past her ear and she got so freaked out that she bolted and tried to hide underneath a very startled Sundae!
 
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