Guinea pig hisses like a dragon

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Zucchin the guinea pig hisses like a dragon in this rare footage!

OK, she's not actually hissing. She's just attempting to wheek with water in her mouth. It's almost like she was gargling. But it does look and sound a bit like dragon noises, especially in slow motion! Such a mighty lion roar from a small pig! Afterward she waddles off back to her den.

Both Spaghett and Zucchin sometimes fail in their wheeking attempts like this and just produce funny breathy whispers of wheeking noises like they have lost their voices.

WHAT’S PIGS?

We publish daily highlights of the adorable antics of our guinea pig herd. Subscribe to see what they do tomorrow!

In June 2019 we adopted five pigs from Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue. They are cute herbivorous pets with funny social interactions. We film all their behaviors, from cute guinea pig noises to eating sounds, playing with their food to sleeping with their eyes open, and occasional fighting. So far they have been most popular for their loud wheeking and rumblestrutting and their ridiculous guinea pig fights!

MEET THE PIG FAMILY

Spaghett is the boar of the herd. The rest of the pigs are females, but he’s a neutered male so they won’t be breeding. Sorry, no pregnant or baby guinea pigs! Spaghett has orange-brown ginger fur with a white crest on his head and red eyes that are pretty cute. He goes on funny romps with entertaining popcorning and zoomies. He does a hilarious rumblestrutting dance for the ladies while purring. When pigs argue he trots over to comfort them. He likes burrowing through hay and standing on his back feet like a goofy dinosaur. He enjoys petting, especially scratching behind the ears.

Acorn is the youngest. She has white, black, and gold fur with a cute mousy face. She’s inquisitive, always wants food, and talks to herself while exploring hay piles. Little Acorn’s special talent is jumping on houses for rooftop adventures.

Butternut appears either confused or deep in thought. She has white and gold fur. Her hobbies include sleeping and yawning while flopped over with her feet sprawled out. She continues wheeking, squeaking, and squealing at us after we have already given her food.

Pumpkin has black fur except for white back toes. She looks like a cow, a non-guinea pig, and a rabbit. She has noisy standoffs with Acorn when Acorn gets feisty.

Zucchin is the oldest and grumpiest. She has white and gray fur with cute red eyes. At first Zucchin fought with Spaghett. There were teeth chattering, nose raising, and hair puffing battles. Now they get along, but Zucchin is still a grouch. She enjoys lunging at anyone who comes near. She loves to chase other pigs out of their homes, then follow them to another home and chase them out of that one too. But she looks like a cute rat!

THEIR HOME

The pigs live in a semi-custom 4 by 6 foot cage we made by merging 3 Midwest Guinea Habitat cages. We cut the seams of the cage bottoms and joined them into one large cage liner with duct tape and super glue. Now we have a MidWest cage of triple the size! The cage is on cheap folding tables so we can easily interact with the pigs. They first lived in the same 3 cages connected by ramps with DIY ramp covers we made by sewing blankets.

Their bedding is soft paper bedding from Small Pet Select. We spot clean wet spots daily and do a full cage clean when the bedding starts to smell funky. They used to live on fleece blankets with towels and newspaper underneath. Back then we washed guinea pig fleece by hand in the sink. But since moving to a new apartment guinea pig laundry is less convenient so we switched to bedding. We also considered pine bedding but thought soft paper sounded more comfortable for their little feet!

The pigs prefer free stuff to actual guinea pig toys. They love to hide under packing paper. A DIY guinea pig house made from a cardboard box is a favorite hidey. They are not interested in most chew toys but will chew the bark off small willow sticks.

THEIR DIET

Their favorite hay is 3rd cutting timothy hay from Small Pet Select. They nibble hay cubes. But they get most excited about fresh grass. They also gobble up Sherwood Pet Health guinea pig pellets.

They eat nearly any vegetable. The only thing rejected so far was zucchini. Their favorites are dandelion leaves, fennel, cilantro, parsley, banana leaves, kale, collard greens, kohlrabi, carrot tops and roots, beets, bell peppers, corn with the husk, cucumbers, and pumpkin. They go wild for homemade wheatgrass sprouts.

Their water bottle is a 26 ounce Living World Eco+ glass bottle. They drink it all in a day.

THEIR CINEMATOGRAPHY

The pigs are filmed with the latest GoPro Hero 8 Black in 4K. We edit their videos in iMovie with free music from the YouTube audio library.

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😄 in all the years of being a vet nurse I've never seen a piggy do that 😍 adorable!

Sam-dott
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You can get that when they squeek to much it's like having a dry throat when weeking.

plonker
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In my whole 4-5 years of owning a guinea pig i had NO IDEA they could do that

Ashton__
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I didn’t know that guinea pigs were part

yourlocaljobbernowl
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spaghett: our parents are running low on content what should we do?
acorn: zucchin do that hissing thing u showed me!!
zucchin: well alright then

santiago
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Zucchini looks so cute! And can make some weird noises!

Miaplayz
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There is more to a guinea pig than meets the eye!!! lol. Way to go sweet guinea pig. xx

ladygaynor
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Dragons are the world government, and our guinea pigs are angels on Earth!

oleg-in
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Guinea pig: DONT TOUCH MEH HOOMAN
Hooman: hahaha
pig: IT NOT FUNNY -_-
Human: HAHAHa
Pig:I give up

-.Vid_Dwller.-
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Dragon hisses aside, Zucchin is such a cute pig 😀

citibear
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She would spit fire in no time, that's for sure xD

darkestranger
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Omg my guinea pig just hissed at me and I was so confused! I was wondering what it meant! Cute that it's just a dry throat and not a threatening sound!

motherofpigs
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Atleast it came out that end & not the other.

dontwanta
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Aw haha💕I love the sounds that they make 😂

PiggiesWorld
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I’ve never heard a guinea of hiss before

HerobrineSings
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Oh! I must learn to do this! I love making different and weird sounds, but that's a new one on me! Good job! Headed off to think like a dragon... Boink boink boink boink

petuniafrompittsburgh
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That was hilarious! My guinea pigs, Nut-Meg and Marble have done that a couple of times, and it triggers MY dog, Layla to get into bark mode! Lol! 🤣 this made MY family smile! Love your vids!

breemckee
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Zucchin might be half dragon and half piggie. Or maybe just a dragon inside of a form of a guinea pig.

nezrh
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Our boys used to hiss at each other several times a day when we first brought them home. I haven't heard them do it in months now though.

alexjack
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#teamzucchin <3
Hope she's fine though. Sounded like she choked there a bit. =)
This scared me with gerbils too, when they do something that is out of the norm. Some like "sleeping dead on their backs". Got me all the time.

veritasg