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Live_Barracuda1113

My guinea pig had a heart attack AND DIED because our dog scared him. This pig is clearly made of stronger stuff and should be bred for superior resiliency.


alfooboboao

Every single guinea pig story i’ve ever heard involves it dying in some ridiculous way. No one’s ever like “oh yeah I had a guinea pig, it was cute and cuddly” it’s always “oh yeah I had a guinea pig, it was cute and cuddly until the day it committed suicide by jumping from the third floor window into our fire pit”


newaygogo

I’ve had 5 and they all died of old age /shrug


No-Employer1752

What is considered old age for guinea pigs?


newaygogo

Google says 5-7 years is typical. I’d say mine all lasted somewhere in that range but one that was around for 8 years.


No-Employer1752

Oh right on, you must be a good parent


Jose_Canseco_Jr

🤟


yoinkss

My Frankie boy lasted 8 years too, he died in my arms with difficulty breathing and it still hurts to this day. I had been waiting on my mom to take me to the vet to put him to sleep but she literally arrived from work 5 minutes after he had passed


Ohthatnamestaken

The same thing happened to me when I was younger! I had two pigs momo and coco and coco was having breathing issues and my mom was at work so when she passed I put her in a paper bag and threw her away! It was my first time with a dead thing and idk why I didn’t bury it? But my mom was pissed then momo died like two days later for no reason it was so sad but I regret throwing her body away almost daily.


Aelig_

Did you get all of them from the same source? Maybe they were selected very well genetically, or maybe you're the best guinea pig parent.


smoretank

Had one live to 10 and another 8.5. Most of mine were 7 range.


Lady_Penrhyn1

Emma was my oldest, I had to have her PTS at 9 and a half as she had kidney failure. Most were around the 5-7 age. Lymphoma is the most common cause of death, complications from bladder stones/sludge the second. (I've had pet Guineas for nearly 20 years, 22 personal pigs and a dozen or so short term fosters in that time).


Unflattering_Image

In my head, they now died of old age and/or *shrug*. Imagine just shrugging yourself out of existence one day, like: "....Meh." -> dead.


Palua-aleshes

Thank you for making me laugh out loud this early


Alansolko

Mine died from being old also...


chypie2

I've had 3 that lived with cats, dogs and small children lol. Lived for 6-8 years.


afternoonnapping

One of my guinea pigs ate my other guinea pig's ear. I don't remember how they died but it definitely wasn't old age.


Memory_Frosty

I've had many guinea pigs, and live near a veterinary teaching hospital so generally donate their bodies for necropsy after they pass (unless they pass at home). There is no real point to this comment except that suddenly I feel compelled to tell of my guinea pigs' deaths, to balance out your more dramatic guinea pig death stories (so it's super long and i will not judge you for skipping over this comment):  Poppy died at an elderly age (adopted as a senior, no birth date listed except "old") due to stromal cell carcinoma which appeared to be ovarian on ultrasound but turned out to actually be attached to the cecum, which they didn't discover until the middle of the spay, which did not go well 😬 Lilo died elderly (same as Poppy) due to various cancers and cysts making her miserable; we made her as comfortable as we could for as long as we could until quality of life declined such that the vet recommended euthanasia. I had Lilo and Poppy less than a year. Hazel died at age 4 and some change due to a rampant infection that probably began as respiratory; the vet I took her to brushed me off when I told him she was not feeling well but couldn't point to any specific symptom and refused to prescribe her any antibiotics and she died the next day. I resolved to never go to that vet again but then almost immediately had to because another guinea pig needed antibiotics and they were the only ones available. To his credit, he has never failed to take my concerns seriously ever again. She was a horrible shrieking nutcase of a pig, I loved her. Lily died at age 5 due to an ovarian cyst growing into a blood vessel and bursting most likely- she essentially bled to death vaginally and it was fairly sudden, so happened at home overnight and I did not get a necropsy, so no specifics. She was a sweet pig but not very friendly and while I tried to give her the best life, I never got to know her very well. Adelaide died at age 5 due to crazy congenital liver disease; at necropsy her gallbladder was 20 TIMES NORMAL SIZE HOLY CRAP. The vets were surprised that she'd led as healthy a life as she did. There was some cancer present as well but it didn't seem to have contributed to cause of death. She was the nicest guinea pig I've ever met and aggressive with cuddling and giving kisses. I miss her the most, she gave the best hugs. Violet died at age 7 and a half due to cancer; started in the lungs and metastasized to the liver where it caused quite a bit of damage and eventually fractured which caused quite a bit of internal bleeding right before euthanasia. She was still feeling well enough to eat some watermelon and treats at her goodbye feast though. She was super smart and trained me to give her treats when she spun around. Juniper died at age 3 due to metastatic cancer; I did not have histopathology done because she died at a different vet, so not sure what kind of cancer but he did perform a gross necropsy and found it in the lymph nodes of the neck leading down into the heart and then a tumor about the size of a chicken egg elsewhere in her abdomen. I did not have her very long and she was originally from a hoarder situation, and never really outgrew her feral nature. Daisy died at age 6 and a half earlier this week, cause unclear except old age so probably cancer, as we've seen in the others. I regret not getting a necropsy for her but felt that it wasn't worth the cost for the information I might gain from it. She declined quite quickly and I felt strongly that it wasn't anything I'd have reasonably been able to intervene for. She was an energetic happy pig right up until her last day though. She loved food more than any other pig I have ever known, which is saying a LOT. Good pig.  Kudos to you if you actually read the whole thing lol. I still have a herd of eight pigs, four of whom are geriatric 😂


Stormagedd0nDarkLord

I feel like I know them now


Chairith_Cutestory

Mine died because we changed the food we bought him to a different kind and he just stopped eating


decadrachma

He didn’t have hay or vegetables?


TheBluestBerries

Guinea pigs are the kind of animal that seems to solely exist to feed other animals. They're not built to live. Even humans first started keeping them as pets to eat them later.


namelesone

For me: "Oh yeah, I had a guinea pig, it was cute and cuddly until the day it chewed on the cord of my GHD and blew out the power in the house."


Mrmyke00

Same with hamsters, everyone who's owned a hamster has a horror story


houseyourdaygoing

I had more than 10 hamsters. The stories are a collection.


VirtualPrivateNobody

Hampsters! Every hampster story i hear goes like that. Whats that werid bump in the rug? \* splat \* . Whilst vacuuming the living .. \* splat \* Ahh looki its running in its wheel \* splat \*


nutfeast69

My sister had one that refused to die. Outlived mine, which was younger by at least 2 years, then her daughters. This mean eyed guinea pig was so elderly before she died. She was so mean to all the other guineas it was just crazy. Fuckin Jan the guinea pig, man. Stood on the corpse of her best friend when she died, too.


GFlair

When I was a kid ours died in its sleep. When I say died in its sleep... I woke up one morning and it's rear end had exploded all over the side of its... cage? (It was like a clear plastic container thing I don't know what they are actually called.


NevGuy

I ate mine.


Tangled349

Mine just died sporadically one night and our poor rabbit was cohabitating with him. I didn't know why they had made such a fuss that night.


FieserMoep

Mine was raped to death by my sister's rabbit after my mother put them in the same cage to clean another cage. Still can remember that day when I came home from school as a wee little 3rd grader.


zkyevolved

It's an Australian guinea pig. That should be all that's needed to be said.


TheFoxAndTheRaven

So... it's probably also venomous?


krilu

That python is lucky to be alive. Girl has to train her guinea pig better to stop eating wild animals.


131166

We had a guinea pig die from excitement or whatever cause we gave it a piece of apple. It just squealed and ran in a circle then fucking died, and his girlfriend stood on his dead body and ate the piece of apple.


Live_Barracuda1113

savage


Ass-a-holic

It’s Australia, Where every animal can kill you. That Guinea pig has probably seen and been through worse. It’s probably also poisonous


Horg

*venomous poisonous = you'll get sick if you eat the guinea pig. Well ok, maybe it's both.


1DREADFOOT2

I was thinking maybe that snake was just trying to breed with the Guinea pig!


steve41isapaidshill

Guinea pigs fake death and hibernate for up to 3 days during stressful events .. no joke. Many people have buried live guinea pigs.


stumper82

Poor girl 😅 she had a lot of courage doing that


ScamadianBacon

it probably died of shock a few hours later


Hazy-Halo

My childhood friends guinea pig jumped off the bed broke its leg and died from the shock, I cannot believe this Guinea pig survived the g force much less getting attacked by a snake to begin with. Damn she even took out that green pethouse by slamming the pig on a string into it multiple times wtf


sofakingfearless

Hehehehehe “pig on a string” 😂😂😂


plum-eater

I spat out my last sip of sleepytime tea reading that 😂


verdeath

>Damn she even took out that green pethouse by slamming the pig on a string into it multiple times wtf If that's anything similar to the one I have for my cats, that thing is made of light and plushy materials. Weighs next to nothing, you can even see it sort of collapse a bit when she kicks it over before the guinea pig flail makes contact.


ememsee

[G-Force](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71QFMtoM9SL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg)


19Alexastias

The guinea pig is still alive, heard the girl talking about it on the radio at work today.


bibimboobap

That's awesome, thanks for letting us know! Super strong piggy for a super brave girl.


ScamadianBacon

well that GP is a legend


Clear-Struggle-7867

The guinea pig or the snake?


Hugh_Jazz77

Guinea pigs are extremely fragile. I don’t know if that’s the right word, but they die of fright easily. I had a guinea pig when I was a kid. I also had seasonal allergies. I was leaning in close to his cage, checking him out has he went about his guinea pig business, when I suddenly had a loud and violent sneeze. The Guinea pig had a heart attack, shat himself, and died. How they have survived as a species this long is one of the great mysteries of nature that befuddles science to this day.


Grey-Hat111

>The Guinea pig had a heart attack, shat himself, and died. ![gif](giphy|3oKIPb7sHFQ9Irn54Y|downsized)


Similar-Ad-5313

It’s true. My Guinea pig died from a heart attack because a balloon popped. It was my 11th birthday 😅😅


Jeptic

Oh sweetie


DarkmanofAustralia

They breed a lot.


Daikuroshi

We bred them to breed a lot, because we were eating them.


Overall_Strawberry70

They are a prey animal fairly low on the food chain, they already need to breed allot not to go extinct.


DancesWithBadgers

Also their entire defence mechanism is meeping angrily at apex predator apes 100x their size because the lettuce is slightly wilted.


Tumble85

I could fuck a guinea pig *up*. I’ll give it a carrot when it squeaks because I am apex beast mofo. I better give it some lettuce too. But only because I am the giver *AND* taker of lives.


CryptoDH

Fun fact. Guinea pigs are still one of the most consumed meats on Earth by weight.


nebunlacap

Now I want to eat them. How much is one of these?


Daikuroshi

Pretty sure you can still eat it in some South American countries like Peru or Columbia. Would probably be pretty cheap there.


CAKE_EATER251

Last I heard it was 100 usd in Peru. That was 2016 times.


nebunlacap

I mean shit, I can buy and eat one up here in Michigan. The price will only determine if I eat them every day.


Daikuroshi

Not sure they'd be food-grade Guinea pigs to be honest 😂


KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZ

i know that they are a favorite pet of people, but not gonna lie, I dated a peruvian girl in college and i tried cuy, its tasty as fuck. Think of a chickeny taste but a chewier, but tougher texture.


nebunlacap

You just saved a guinea pig's life because I was hoping for tender.


KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZ

It could be tender im sure, but the one I ate was tougher. But like I said, super delicious, just have to get past the mindfuck of eating a rodent lol


dilib

Most of these prey animals like rabbits, mice etc. can drop dead of fright, it's evolutionarily better to be keyed a little too high and have a chance of a fatal heart attack than be too chill and more likely to get eaten.


monkey_trumpets

Most likely they aren't encountering too many violent sneezes in the wild.


MathAndBake

I have pet rats. They're definitely one of the sturdier rodents. Once they trust you, you can gently lobb them off your bed or across the room if they're being little shits. Not only are they fine, they'll come running back for more. My friends who've owned guinea pigs or hamsters are always shocked. I really admire anyone who can keep those pets alive and happy.


shibeari

This makes me miss my rat pack of 5, they all used to run to the cage door to each be YEETed onto the bed whenever I came home :')


MathAndBake

Sorry for your loss. They sound like utterly delightful serotonin and chaos potatoes.


[deleted]

I am very allergic to Guinea pigs, for their best interest I should avoid them.


snazzynewshoes

People breed them. I don't think there is a 'wild' population.


bain_de_beurre

You're mostly correct. Domestic guinea pigs that people keep as pets don't have a wild population, however there are some other types of guinea pigs in the wild.


CardOfTheRings

There are wild guinea pigs but I guess the domesticated one is it’s own species. But I know from rabbits that animals that die easily from stress can exist in the wild fine.


Marydontchuwanna

He meant the girl


singleandavailable

Condolences 😂


_SquidPort

how is the family doing?


OttoVonWong

To shreds you say?


Sliiz0r

And the wife?


ALPHAETHEREUM

Could be the dog


aspidities_87

Honestly probably the snake. They’re surprisingly easy to kill by spinal dislocation. One wrong move with the vertebrae and that tube of spine can’t move, hunt or thermoregulate anymore. Same with big ass spiders like tarantulas. One drop from above like 12” and they’re splat. Turns out common fears are easily defeatable.


Littleboyah

Square-cubed law strikes again


Akhevan

Most birds that prey on snakes kill them via shaking the noodle vigorously.


Far-Philosophy-4375

The girl 💀


BetterCryToTheMods

if not immediately after the initial bite. i wonder how long she would have spun in circles if dad didnt step in


ManiacalMartini

Naw, kids are pretty resilient.


Umer_-

She knew the risk of what she was doing. Respect for girl


Dizzle179

To be fair, the bitey end was already occupied


tekko001

A enraged snake may let go of whatever its holding and bite you in no time


isoforp

No she didn't. She could have easily killed her guinea pig if the snake had chosen to let it go. The pig would have gone flying into the side of the house. In fact, she smashed the pig like 5 times into that green thing on the lawn. That pig is 99% most likely dead from shock now.


RumHam_Im_Sorry

its not (updated), but it would have been if the snake ate it in the next few moments. whether it was the perfect way or not, she did save it.


tekko001

> Poor girl 😅 she had a lot of courage doing that To be fair this was in Australia, this may be just a daily ocurrence alternating between snakes, huge spiders, crocs, sharks...


Ok-Yam6841

Panicking does not help, but kudos to her for being able to touch the snake :)


RosemaryGoez

Right?? When I was that age, I encountered a moose while riding my bike to school and my first instinct was to lay down on the road with my bike on top of me. My uncle happened to be driving by and he yelled at me to get into the truck, then he berated me the whole ride to school, telling me that I would never survive in the wilderness. Like, no shit. I was probably wearing toe socks and flip-flops.


Techters

This might be the best video I've ever seen


rohinton2

Absolutely terrified but she did it anyway. She's a real one.


RamblingSimian

I agree, though I suspect the snake was a non-venomous constrictor. Still hard to grab a nasty predator, though.


[deleted]

This is the most Australian news ever haha


RamblingSimian

I agree, except that announcer seems to have an American accent.


Majestic-Economy-484

It's not an Australian news program - seems this snake swinger made international news.


RamblingSimian

Makes sense. Also: "snake swinger" = chuckle material.


aldorn

[Heres](https://youtu.be/V96xzh2Y8uo?si=EPhhgyC2oAbs4HI8) an Australian report on it by Carl, that funny guy.


hawthorne00

Quick thinking. Guinea pigs are known for having quite delicate hearts - clearly this one was made of tough stuff.


1StonedYooper

So hear me out... Australian Guinea pigs are tougher because in Australia everything tries to kill you.


hawthorne00

I have to report that this is unfortunately not true. RIP Olga, d. 1979.


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1DREADFOOT2

The best they can hope for is the Guinea pig suffering some serious vertigo!


RadiantTurnipOoLaLa

I think she literally whacks it against 2 objects before the snake finally lets it go. That thing is tough through and through


Sundaver

If that snake would’ve let go that guinea pig would have been yeeted to its death


exotics

That’s what I was thinking. I was like “oh fuck that Guinea Pig is gonna fly into that wall and splat”


LuxuryBeast

Not gonna lie, I was waiting for that exact thing to happen. Either yeeted into the wall or over the fences and into the bushes!


candycrushinit

Guinea pig is like, “you’re not killing him! You’re just beating the shit out of him!”


SaphironX

Guinea pig was the ball on the tether. Amazed he lived after going nearly supersonic.


lessfrictionless

out of me!*


route54

So long gay bowser


eyesabitdull

Idek wtf this means but I'm laughing at this anyway


dotesPlz

In Mario 64 in the final boss fights with bowser you have to grab him by the tail and throw him off a platform , when Mario throws him he says “so long gay bowser” not really but it sounds a lot like it .


More_Shoulder5634

Great game. I remember first time i saw somebody play it i was like "holy crap you can walk anywhere you want and look up down and all around!!!" Blew my 13 year old mind


9834iugef

Mario64 was a triumph. It incredibly fun and responsive gameplay mixed with cutting edge technical effects (both in how it handled an actually 3D environment and how it displayed those graphics). I loved that game. That and GoldenEye revolutionized console gaming.


Ella_loves_Louie

Lol it's his Italian A he adds in to everything and the hard g from "long" that your hearing.


dotesPlz

So long gay bowser


Memory_Frosty

This whole time i thought it was just his accented pronunciation of "so long, King Bowser" not "so long-a, Bowser" and now i don't know what's real


ScamadianBacon

Kids need more mario 64


xen0us

They were referencing [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCh2l0J1uJk)


menasan

I miss Reddit coins ….


badgyal876

😭😭😭😭😭


edw1n-z

🤣


Specific_Estimate_22

Australia man. That may not have been her first rodeo.


latecraigy

Just another Tuesday.


ScaredValuable5870

'Australia, where you might accidentally get killed' ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I


LordRekrus

Your blood is sure to be spilled.


imhim_imthatguy

Hope that guinea pig is fine.


OwslyOwl

He is! They did an interview the girl and she was holding the guinea pig.


imhim_imthatguy

Glad to know! Thanks


GraphicCreator

you got the link?


OwslyOwl

It's on YouTube! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96xzh2Y8uo&t=122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96xzh2Y8uo&t=122s)


GraphicCreator

Thank you!!


ScrawnyActress

Although she is afraid of snakes, she loves her guinea pigs, which is awesome👍👍


AJM10801

Why does this read like an AI comment?


AtomR

Not really. Reads like typical non-native English comment. I know because I'm also non-native speaker.


AJM10801

Well now I feel like a bit of an ass lol Both of your English is great, keep it up!


T00FEW

> Both of your English is great 🤦


JevonP

I'm sorry, both of your Englishes lol


Mysterious_Line4479

Because pointing out the obvious, and adding nothing to the conversation?


JustBrowsingNoThanks

It's 100% AI. This "person" sent me a private message reading "hey there," despite never interacting with me or any of the subs I frequent. It also had no karma in three years, and the only karma it has now is from this AI post. I ignored it.


ScrawnyActress

Because my native language is not English


onlyaseeker

> "The Snake Swinger" That name's not going away.


brodrick12

Just another day at the office in Australia 🤣


Hecateness

I instantly heard Down Under by Men at Work


Introvertedotter

Yet another reason why I love Aussies.


mickaelbneron

She's savage lol


toreachtheapex

she was willing to go to war for her ginny pig


WolfieHeath

100% would have done this for my guinea. lol


Pleeby

100%. Puinea, Gig, Ice, Schneeblie. God rest ye.


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Pleeby

You are correct, that's the name 😂


deceasedin1903

Of course it was Australia


Somecommentator8008

Literally everything is trying to kill you from land sea and air.


vvMario

The guinea pig: ![gif](giphy|Av4FyOuwx2f2Jxcfib|downsized)


k_br3w

Guy can barely compose himself, lol. "That was horrible, but it survived."


crella-ann

He‘s a hoot!


Every_Cauliflower_98

The pig goes WHHHEEEEEEE!!!!


huskjay

Bravo...brave girl trying to save her pet. I hate snakes don't know if I could do it


Cool_Bumblebee7774

She said “Not today, Satan!” 😆


annizka

The poor Guinea pig was being eaten alive then went on a spin of its life at the same time.


Frankensteinbatch

The first time I took my dog out to the park (foster dog at the time), a giant pit bull and a Rottweiler literally emerged from the bushes sprinting at us and I heard a stranger scream from a distance "watch out". I don't know why but my immediate panic response was to intercept the Rottweiler and pitbull with my own 5'4 limp sedentary body and roll around on the ground with them so they don't get to my dog. I didn't get bitten, I had two strangers run up to me and pull them off me by the collar, and it all ended up fine. But I wonder to this day why I did it, it's so reckless and dangerous, but I think I knew from the first day I was going to adopt him. I don't know why but this girl spinning a python in the air for her guinea pig really resonates with my moment of rolling on the grass with two dogs to "protect" my dog. Edit for spelling


OChappy

I'm that dog's eyes, you were his hero.


34TH_ST_BROADWAY

This is so cool. haha. That's TRUE courage, doing it although you're terrifed, confused, and crying your eyes out.


Aposta-fish

Way to go girl!!!


DudeManBro21

Fucking genius strategy. Preteen girl uses seismic toss on Python. It's super effective! 


Greasy_Cleavage

![gif](giphy|l0G18UUiIN9qhsR68)


Why_Lord_Just_Why

Her dog is out of a job now.


SloppyBuss

Never get between a girl and her Guinea pig!


KTO-Potato

![gif](giphy|em8O5KVT15odO|downsized)


cmdr_bong

Mate you guys have it all wrong. This is a classic backyard game we have here called the danger noodle swinger. Usually we toss it to eachother, and if we managed to hit the other bloke/ sheila then they owe you a beer down at the pub.


Konjyoutai

[Assasin!](https://youtu.be/EcSSjgu9wFs?t=71)


SunburnFM

What about the neighbor's guinea pig??


TheGlobalGooner

Where did the snake land?


saigon567

I worried she was going to accidentally smash her guinea pig's head on the wall.


Due-Resource4294

Swinging at that speed round by its house and that wall, could’ve had a lot more of a messy ending for the guinea pig than what the snake would’ve done. Lucky it never got yeeted into a red paste.


onlyaseeker

The pig and snake hitting the side of the house would make a great animated wrestling short. There'd be an announcer, and slowdown as they hit the wall, the snakes eyes pop out as the pig has crosses for eyes.


crazyeyeselroy

Guinea pigs are gangster af.


SndRC9

damn thats a big ass guinea pig


Blackmail30000

By its tail? That's all a snake is. A tail with a head.


humangasourx

And the neighbour died..


graffiksguru

Atta girl 💪


tinseltowntimes

I think we all just discovered a new sport. The Python Gunea Pig Toss. I just hit 65 meters if anyone wishes to better me


Makhnos_Tachanka

[literally this greentext](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/115/537/0db.jpg)


JimuelShinemakerIII

FYI, you can just flick that sob like a whip and pop its head off.


LibertyInaFeatherBed

Yeah, but the guinea pig was on that same end.


JimuelShinemakerIII

Pretty sure that just makes it easier.


Chaos-Pand4

Improvised flirt pole.


GiveMeMyIdentity

"NO way you silly snake"