when you tell people you have guinea pigs and are crazy about them what do they think

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well as i am only 18this year ppl either think i am weird to have them as little kids are only to have them or that i am a young mum ( i am not!), and when they fine out i spoil them i do get a little pick on and call crazy and Obsessive :( what about * guys
 
Everyone at works thinks its all a big joke, they couldn't believe I was going boar dating. They think it's odd, but they all harp on about their beloved dog or horse. What's the difference?
 
SNAP well said!

i'm slowly educating my work friends (this includes post office, stationers, tool suppliers :(|) ) on piggies.......they all see my calendar and photo's of the girls :)
 
My work mates all find my guinea pig obsession hilarious they just don't get it at all. And it probably didn't help matters that I was jumping around outside work with a fishing net most of last week trying to catch a stray rabbit! Ha - I don't do myself any favours! That's why I'm so glad I found the forum and can bang on about my piggies to people that feel the same way! xx>>>
 
A girl at my work said she didn't see the point in guinea pigs mallethead Yet when she came round my house she loved them lol. People seem to think because they are small rodents they don't have personality. Oh, how wrong are they!? :))
 
All but one of my friends don't really understand my love of guinea pigs or horses, they're always asking why I don't spend my money on something useful like clothes hmph
 
Considering how many pets, of different varieties, I have, nothing surprises anybody now. They just think I'm a bit dotty, but who's the one that gets all the cuddles! :p
 
When anyone finds out I have 5 guinea pigs, 5 hamsters, 1 rabbit, 4 fish and I want gerbils and a lizard they think I'm crazy :-)

Most people assume I have them becasue I want a baby or something
 
My work colleagues find it weird that I take my guineas to the vets when i'm worried about them. mallethead

I recently got my C&C stuff delivered to work and no way was I telling them what it was for, made the excuse that the grids were for storing my shoes and the correx were to protect my walls when i'm decorating.

And i've not told many about me adopting Mr T, not that I don't want to show him off, but some people just don't understand rolleyes I like that here we can talk about our guineas without feeling silly!
 
People do seem to undervalue guinea pigs, think of them as pets suitable only for young children and not worth vet expenses.

A co-worker of my son's thought it ridiculous that I take Peanut Butter in to the vet for regular work on his problem teeth. When my son asked him what he would have done in my place, the answer was "there would be one less guinea pig in the world". I was aghast.

On the other hand, after people have actually spent time in my home with my 2 boys they all fall in love with piggies. I had an overseas houseguest for 3 months last year who plagued me practically every morning if she could take "the baby" out of its cage - meaning Hazelnut, who was then 3 months old and had not yet acquired his friend PB. She couldn't keep her hands off him!
 
My work friends tend to ignore me except for one! She has buns though.
People at college dispair of me and call me the crazy guinea pig girl. My tutor took the mickey out of me when I had to leave college early twice to go to the vets for my guineas! And I study animal management ... !
 
everyone thinks I'm a nutter how I bang on about 'the boys' like they are actual people. I always talk about them to anyone who will listen. I really dont care what people think and most just think its funny but I do get odd looks when I say I'm off to the vets or I've brought them solmething new for their house.
I agree I think people who don't have them think they are for children and should be kept outside, I would never put my boys outside to live, what would be the fun as I want them inside so I can see and talk to them rolleyes
 
I have 2 boars and 1 other small animal and always get comments about how the "zoo" is. 3 animals, 2 being of the same species in the same cage does not constitute a zoo!

I get the same feedback that others have already mentioned here. A lot of people just don't get why I love them so much or want to keep them.
 
People also think it's ok to say how much they don't like them too...! I would never dream of telling someone how I hate dogs and think they're stupid pets to someone that loved them (not that i do hate dogs) but you get the idea..
 
One Work Person (wouldnt call him mate) Owns A Farm & Claims To Love Animals,But Because He Knows How Much I Love My Piggies He Teases Me & Asks If He Can Have One Of My Guineas So He Can Put It In A Fox Trap & Make It Squeal To Attract Foxes To The Trap. I Get So ANGRY! grrrr As Its A Constant Running Joke About My Guinea Pigs. Even When My Husband Picks Up My Pay He Cracks Jokes About My Piggies To Him. Its Apparently Ok To Be Obsessed With A Family Pet If Its A Dog Or A Cat, But If Its A Guinea Pig People Think Your Strange:{
 
On the other hand I spoke to a lovely lady the other day at work! It was a customer and I was having a chat about her cats then she asked about my pets. She didn't even bat an eyelid about how I had seven guineas living indoors, and went on to say how she had been working at someones house recently and they had a lone guinea pig in a filthy hutch outside and that she thought it was disgusting :(
 
well * guys know how i feel than lol. i am so sick of ppl teasing and making stupid jokes
 
Most people that don't know me very well think I'm absolutely insane when they find out I have twenty guinea pigs. Those that have known me for a long time though know that I've always loved animals and to have 20 guinea pigs is slightly over the top, but very... me. My boyfriend used to find my... obsession... weird and he still doesn't get how someone can have as many as I do, but considering he got two for himself last summer and is completely smitten with them he definitely sees what I see in mine - even if he personally wouldn't have more than two.

Most people might think it's weird but if they actually meet the pigs and see what they're like they tend to come round pretty quickly to their charm. There's nothing quite like walking into my shed to be greeted by sixteen wheeky guinea pigs and it puts a smile on most people's faces and in turn lets them see what I see in my piggies.

Those that don't get it are welcome to not get it. Not get it and make nasty comments towards me about it though and they will get told very politely where they can put their comments. :)
 
I'm pretty lucky. Two of my friends own guinea pigs so don't think I'm crazy just a bit obsessed with how much I talk about them. They don't mind listening though and talk happily about their own piggies. One even worked in a farm as a carer of the piggies there and would go crazy mad if anyone handled them wrong.

My other friends mother rescues dogs and so she thinks its lovely how obsessed I am.

My third friend thinks I'm nuts and obsessed but she's obsessed with other things that I roll my eyes at. We both just laugh about it and show one another pictures.

People who aren't close friends just think I'm insane and make comments that utterly disgust me.
 
I couldn't care less what people think of me. I luckily work with dogs, so most of the people I work with are quite the same as me. They love all animals!
 
I am only eleven and every hour at least, I think about my Latte. All my friends know about my sweet little pig and all his stuff. My friends uncle got a couple of pigs and they took al the research out of me before I knew the real world of piggies. So when I learned I went over to his house and told him. He didn't believe me because I was ten. He didn't do an inch of research and I spent days researching. When I gave him the websites I went to he said"Those websites are gonna give my computer bugs." He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, in fact, he'd be a spoon! I'm probably smarter than him. He doesn't even get how petstores work. You go in for advice, the give you advice to buy stuff, you buy stuff, they get $. And I told him this and he still didn't believe me. When I tell people stuff like this they give me that look that says,"Look at that cute little girl that knows nothing about what she's saying." I knew someone that only gave their guinea pig dry food and told them the right diet and they gave me that look. UGH!!:)>>>
 
yeah thats the same with me i am always down my mum throat about my little sisters pigs too, lucky my dad knows i am not only crazy but right too
 
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