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Mommy look, a ....PUPPY???

cutemomome

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This is too cute.
My friend in my home country brought her piggy for a walk, when she suddenly heard a little boy's voice....
"mommy, look look, a puppy".

She turned aorund and the boy is pointing at her PIG!
 
That is so funny!

What an adorable guinea pig!
 
When I walk to my mail box and I take Toby, my sheltie, people think he is a small puppy also, kids are so darn cute though.
 
Aw, that is so cute. The only thing my pigs have been mistaken for it a gerbil. Phesst.

Toby is my favorite of Christy's pigs.
 
My goodness. There is nothing cuter in the world than a piggie face! I just love the picture of that adorable face!
 
That is such a cute pig!

I think people have a hard time with the long hair if they're not familiar with guinea pigs. It's either that or they think it's a mop. :D
 
When my husband took my gp to the vet today, a lady peeked into the cat carrier and asked if it was a kitten. When my hubby came home and told me this, the first thing I said was "I hope it was a lady who WORKED there!"
 
A4PigHome said:
When my husband took my gp to the vet today, a lady peeked into the cat carrier and asked if it was a kitten. When my hubby came home and told me this, the first thing I said was "I hope it was a lady who WORKED there!"

I always get asked if I have a cat. Everyone wonders what the hay is for. Then sometimes I get the stories about how they had a guinea pig and it lived outside..
 
Yeah, I always get that too. They get called hamsters. THe other day I went to the fabric store to get fabric for a cozy and the lady asked what it was for and I told her. She said, "my sister had guinea pigs for her kids, they kept dying. She finally figured out they were eating the curtains with fiber glass in them." I didn't even respond I was just flabbergasted.
 
Uh! That's horrible! Those poor guinea pigs. Some people just don't get it. They think pets, especially ones like guineas, are just toys...if they die (break), no big deal just get a new one. No thought into what is best for these adorable, loving creatures. I wonder how well she took care of her kids!
 
Everyone I know thinks I am crazy the way I talk about my babies! They cannot believe that I have four of them. They also continually refer to them as hamsters which really aggrivates me. When I tell them how much personality they have it is like they don't believe me. Oh, well. We know how great piggies are!
 
Whenever anyone visits me and looks at my pets they all ask me what it is and I tell them its a guinea pig and they look at me with such bewilderment. They have never heard of a guinea pig. 30 minutes later they forget what they are called. I constantly have to remind them "GUINEA PIG" "GUINEA PIG".
 
Yup, same for me, but everyone says 'gerbil'.
 
I regularly get asked "how are the hamsters?". I have one hamster. Two guinea pigs. SOO many people don't know the difference!
 
Yeah, until recently I thought everyone knew what guinea pigs were. The lady at the fabric store made sure to tell me about the huge hole her sister's curtain.
 
THat is so funny cutemom. Everyone in my family calls them little bunnies. lol
 
Most of the people I work with are from overseas so it takes a really long time to explain to them what a guinea pig is. I can't even use other small animal references.

At least with the French people I work with I can just memorize the French from the pellet package.
 
Years ago I baby sit some small children , (3 and 4 year olds). I had GP's. The one little girl could not say "guinea" so she called the "kitty pigs". Any GP I had after that and after my own children were grown. In my house they were called "kitty Pigs".
 
I think Cavy is more universal than guinea pig. My boyfriend is dutch - guinea pigs are called "Cavia(s)" in dutch. Bracken has a bowl with that written on it :)
 
That is such a GORGEOUS guinea!! How could he/she be mistaken for a puppy?!? Well I suppose the kid was young... :)
 
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