I love my 12 guinea pigs.

[Pats]

I think I got them all on here. lol It started with 1. I could sit and watch them all day, they all have very unique personalities. Some want picked up and cuddles, some scream when I'm petting them. One plays toy piano 10:30 a.m. to let me know it's time for breakfast. I've become obsessed, which is easy for us to do. I quickly had to learn everything there is to know about them, nearest relative is the capybara. But I know they all like me. lol

 

[Pats]

Oh, my kids now know me as the 'crazy old guinea pig lady'. lol But that's okay because they give me purpose.

 

[Tired]

Between choosing kids who call me "old crazy lady," and cute guinea pigs in fancy hats, i would go for the latter

 

[Tired]

they all have very unique personalities. Some want picked up and cuddles, some scream when I'm petting them. One plays toy piano 10:30 a.m. to let me know it's time for breakfast.

Heh piano one is adorable. All animals are like this, of course, when we choose to see them not as a food. Cows, goats, chickens - all of them are persons with their own personalities, likes and dislikes

 

[Forest Cat]

If we count from the top left, number six has an epic hairdo.
I can only wish I looked that good. They are adorable.

 

[honeytoast]

what a treat to wake up to!

they are darling

 

[Aspychata]

Fluff babies, so cute. And unlike kids, you don't have to brush them, because they are always hair perfect.

 

[Judge]

Looks like Pats has her own "posse". All twelve of them!

Yep, a bit easier to manage than having a capybara on a leash, which I find hysterical on YouTube. But they're adorable too in their own way. Enormous, but mostly docile animals that can be domesticated. But you might go broke paying for their food!

 

[Pats]

If we count from the top left, number six has an epic hairdo.
I can only wish I looked that good. They are adorable.

Yes, he was having a bad hair day. lol

 

[Pats]

Looks like Pats has her own "posse". All twelve of them!

Yep, a bit easier to manage than having a capybara on a leash, which I find hysterical on YouTube. But they're adorable too in their own way. Enormous, but mostly docile animals that can be domesticated. But you might go broke paying for their food!

My son keeps telling me he's going to get me a capybara and I told him I could never afford to feed one - hard enough to feed the guinea pigs. So everything I get him now includes a capybara something. I've got some little resin capybaras that I plan to hide around his house first chance I get.

Oh, might I add it takes 50 pounds of hay a month - then you also have to give them vegies and pellets.

 

[Judge]

My son keeps telling me he's going to get me a capybara and I told him I could never afford to feed one - hard enough to feed the guinea pigs. So everything I get him now includes a capybara something. I've got some little resin capybaras that I plan to hide around his house first chance I get.

Oh, might I add it takes 50 pounds of hay a month - then you also have to give them vegies and pellets.

Well, if you get one at least you can save money on transportation costs if you get a saddle for your Capybara. Yeehaw!

 

[Forest Cat]

Yes, he was having a bad hair day. lol

I'd say it was a great hair day. Outstanding hair.

 

[Mary Terry]

Looks like Pats has her own "posse". All twelve of them!

Yep, a bit easier to manage than having a capybara on a leash, which I find hysterical on YouTube. But they're adorable too in their own way. Enormous, but mostly docile animals that can be domesticated. But you might go broke paying for their food!

I quit watching when I learned that they eat their own poop every day.

 

[Mary Terry]

Our southern swamps are full of nutria, another kind of invasive large aquatic rodent. People eat them, too.

 

[Judge]

Our southern swamps are full of nutria, another kind of invasive large aquatic rodent. People eat them, too.

Yeah I remember seeing them in the wetlands of Southern Virginia as a kid.

 

[Mary Terry]

Yeah I remember seeing them in the wetlands of Southern Virginia as a kid.

Louisiana pays $5 per nutria pelt. They destroy agricultural crops and aquatic plant structures needed to prevent erosion in the swamps. They're pests!

 

[Mary Terry]

I think I got them all on here. lol It started with 1. I could sit and watch them all day, they all have very unique personalities. Some want picked up and cuddles, some scream when I'm petting them. One plays toy piano 10:30 a.m. to let me know it's time for breakfast. I've become obsessed, which is easy for us to do. I quickly had to learn everything there is to know about them, nearest relative is the capybara. But I know they all like me. lol

They look a lot like my fuzzy winter slippers.

 

[Pats]

Our southern swamps are full of nutria, another kind of invasive large aquatic rodent. People eat them, too.

I had never heard of them.

 

[Pats]

They look a lot like my fuzzy winter slippers.

They've been domesticated for 2,000 years. Their poop contains lots of nitrates and great for fertilizer, many farmers are starting to use them to keep areas mowed and provide natural fertilizer(and there's so much of it. lol). Because they are strictly herbivores, their poop does not contain e coli or other harmful bacteria. And they, also, will eat their own poop (the lighter color ones) if they need to replace nitrates.
They are a source of food in south America, where they came from. A lady had come to my house and when she seen all the guinea pigs, she asked if I will eat them. lol But NOOOOO!!!.
Oh, my grandkids love them.
and they'd make cute little fuzzy anything.

 

[Pats]

Can I occassionally post a picture? I took this one and thought the one in background looked a little wild and this one a little concerned. LOL The crazy haired one is actually a beautiful guinea pig - just has crazy moments. lol