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You Know You're Nuts When......

Roclibrarian

Roclibrarian

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You ask the guinea pig on your lap if you should fast forward the adverts!
I didn't want to make her jump when I reached for the remote (I know this doesn't make me sound any more sane).

What do you do that makes you think you are nuts? Come on I know we are all a bit nuts on here lol
 
Nuts? I don't know what you mean... :whistle:
I have to ask Tonks if I can draw the curtains, because it freaks her out :))

"Mummy is just closing the curtains."

*Tonks runs in fear*

"Come on Tonks, we do this EVERY DAY"

*Runs again in terror as the second curtain is closed*

I'm sure that's not the only nuts thing I do as I chat to them all day :D
 
I always tell the piggies when I'm leaving the house and that I will be back at lunchtime/ teatime or whenever. The OH always laughs and comments that it is as if I am expecting them to reply. Of course I don't. I just don't want them texting me to ask when I'll be back home :lol!::lol:
 
Mad of course we are all mad, to anyone who doesn't love/know guinea pigs anyway.
I talk to mine non stop all day. I tell them where I'm going if I go out and what time I'll be back. I also call out it's only me when I come back in. Life revolves around piggy meal times and needs, human meals consist of wrinkly veggies not good enough to feed to piggies. I for one love being mad.:))
 
I like to spy on Archie through the window with the binoculars when he is in the run. I have no idea why but watching him when he doesnt know I am there is fascinating to me, but I must look a right nutcase lol
 
every time I run up the stairs to my room I yell 'girlies!' in my high pitch piggy voice, they run to the end of their cage talking back to me so I don't feel as nuts..
I also have a habit of telling them when the lights going out at bedtime, and when I'm off for a shower! bit mad.. :crazy:
 
Just like others have said, telling the pigs exactly what you're doing exactly when you're doing it! I mainly do it for Tonks as she freaks when ever this big clumsy human is around. "Mummy is just walking past" or "mummy is just doing your hay" "oh for goodness sake Tonks I'm just putting pellets in your bowl!" XD

She always looks so worried, scanning the room with her eye, head swaying side to side looking anxious. I'm not even sure the talking helps that much, she eyes me with suspicion at all times :))
 
Glad it isn't just me! I can happily say I do all of the things said in the comments too! I natter away to my two girlies all the time and ask them where I've put things if I lose something. I figure they watch my every move so they must know where I put my keys!
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When I go outside I always say hello to my pigs. I went to Sainsburys this morning to stock up on their veg so that my pigsitters (I have 3 coming in at various times on different days from tomorrow onwards) can feed them at veg time. When I got them out of the hutch this morning to put them in the run I said to all 5 individually they had to be good for Aunty Andrea, Aunty Clare and Uncle Neil while Mummy was on holiday as if they understood! I feel bad leaving them but know they will be in safe hands. Andrea looks after a rabbit while Clare and Neil used to breed piggies. My son is staying at home but he is about as useless as a chocolate teapot. He says he will look after them and mean it, have every intention of looking after my piggies then forget!
 
I talk to mine constantly. I tell them that I have to go to work and what time I will be home. I tell them that I will get their breakfast in a minute, and go and do it with them all wheeking encouragement. I tell them when I'm picking them up, and to stop teasing each other.

And during lap tine there is a constant stream of natter. Lucky even watches her dad when he's on the lap top, and it looks like she is helping him buy things!
 
"Mate, you didn't want beans two minutes ago. I still only have beans. Stop running over here like you think I'm hiding the good stuff. it's *just* beans. No, don't bite the cage bars. Seriously, there's spinach right there. You like spinach. Go eat that."

I scatter feed their veggies and I tend to pull the ends off the beans before I put them in the cage, but because I do this right in front of the cage (just sitting there, no actual bag rustling or anything) Comet thinks I'm holding back on the veggies and starts shoving his nose through the cage bars. He will not eat beans. I offer him a bean every time and he's like "nope", then we have the same conversation again two minutes later. I'm also forever talking to Blitzen when I'm trying to groom him, either to try and calm him down, or to tell him to stop being a dolt and it'll be over quicker - and also to point out that leaping off my shoulder would be a terrible idea and I'd appreciate it if he didn't do that, tyvm.
 
VickiA said:
SNAP! I thought it was just mine that had "refined" tastes....
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Honestly, what are they like? Sometimes I try and disguise ordinary green beans by trimming the ends off but they know! :nod::xd:
 
Jude said:
Honestly, what are they like? Sometimes I try and disguise ordinary green beans by trimming the ends off but they know! :nod::xd:
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Same in this house. Spike and Peanut will only eat M&S fine green beans, if I cheat and buy them any where else they know! I hand Spike a bean and he throws it down in the cage with real attitude and sniffs up my sleve to see if I've got a better one.
 
piggieminder said:
Same in this house. Spike and Peanut will only eat M&S fine green beans, if I cheat and buy them any where else they know! I hand Spike a bean and he throws it down in the cage with real attitude and sniffs up my sleve to see if I've got a better one.
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I should give you guys Blitzen, he's not fussy, beans are beans as far as he's concerned. Comet, on the other hand, has apparently decided he hates coriander again. Tell you what though, neither of those weirdos likes carrot tops very much. :yikes:

Also I usually end up telling them both that I'd appreciate it if they didn't wind each other up all day when I'm not there. I swear Comet gets this look in his eye when I say it too. "Who, me? Never!"

Also, away from the subject of guinea pigs, but one of the cats I was staying with in the south of England, he's a hunter cat. Apparently he's come back daily with rodents for the last four days (incidentally, since I left), but once while I was there he brought this dead mouse back. Definitely dead, but the git dumped it in the middle of the living room. I got to spend ten minutes patiently telling this cat to "pick it up, take it outside, and eat it." He did get the hint, eventually. No way was I touching it.
 
I am a certified nutter but...
I always tell my pigs it's breakfast time regardless of what time they get fed at
I also wheek at them and they reward me bye wheeking back lol
 
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