How to tame your Guinea Pig 

Nate's gotten huge! He's mastered the potato pose lol

They have the best ear wiggles when they are eating.💚

From hand of fear. Noooooooooooooooo to the fingers of friendliness.

My new piggie Jerry LOVES your whistles! 😂 he's going nuts!

I've had my girls Alice and Gertrude since december 21st 2018, and since the beginning of this year they've been so tamed that they seem to expect me to pet them every time I sit down by the cage! Sometimes they even start popcorning when they hear my voice 😍

Wow so guinea pigs really enjoy food. They are food orientated that makes sense now. You are really good at handling them ❤😀

I just got my two girls on Valentines day, so thanks for this lol 💛

Snoop looks a bit like Nugget from the Little Adventures herd

I adopted my 3 girls 7 months ago, after much patience on all sides we have an understanding. If they go to one part of their cage I can lay my hand in front and they'll climb up...mostly! We do this every day to reaffirm our bond and there's always veggies involved 😊 love this video, the platform is inspired!

I love your pigs so much and I am getting 2 pigs tomarrow I'm so excited, I use your channel to tech me most of what I know now thank u for the amazing videos❤❤❤

Snoops' funny, I'll just take the whole Lettuce! Thanks! ;p

My mom just asked if u are single😂

I recommend taking the tape off of the box you used as a hideout because they could eat it.

I fall so fast in love .with these sweet boys. I need my piggy tatoe fix every day. 😘😍🤗💖💖💖

That is so cute! That is true about respecting they personality. My oldest guinea pig we adopted got used to us very quickly and we believe she was more used people before. She doesn't run when we show up and most times comes to use when we are near the cage. She will let us pet while she inside the cage if she is eating and she loves lap time (although she does not care for being picked up). The baby is waaaaay more skittish. She runs every time we come near the cage (although she is getting out more when she sees me during breakfast time) and she comes out to take food out of my hands. I found a trick that works well with my girls to pick them up without chasing: I take the hideys away and come from the side with both hands keeping a bit of a distance. With one of the fingers I start caressing them and by the time I get them they are calmer. The older one still squirms but the baby doesn't. It was very challenging getting the baby before since she is so fast! Thanks for your videos!! They help me a lot!

this man has mastered the way of the Guinea piggys

I love your sweet little guinea pigs

Getting two lady pigs soon and your videos have been so helpful! Thanks Scott!!

You and your piggies are lovely!

With my younger piggie, who's an Aby, I have tried all these techniques and more, she simply will not let me pet her while in the cage or pick her up. She knows her name, she comes to get a treat and will take it from my hand or nibble it if I hold really tight. On rare occasions I've been able to extend a finger for quick nose scratch while I hold her treat but she'll quickly let go and run away. The only way I can get her out of the cage for cuddles is to corner her in a bed (or picket on a guinea dad liner). There are times that I've had to use my bamboo back scratcher to guide her to where I want her to go. The thing is tho, once I've caught her and I have her, she's just as snuggly as my other girl. She even gives kisses. She's just going to be a crazy Aby who makes my life difficult.

My kids and I are huge fans of your channel. We've enjoyed watching Billy, and also Gari. Your videos has helped us with our guinea pig.

I fell in love with you during this video. 😊

6:44 is so cute 😃

Great video, my tried and true method is taking them out everyday to hand fed around the same time..talking to them so they recognize me..and giving treats about the same time...definitely repetition and patience. :)

Love your cage setup. It's great. Thanks for your videos!

I also find holding the piggie every time you feed them veggies gets them excited about your hands and or being picked up after a while. I also will give them thier veggies and then place my hand flat on the bedding next to them while they eat, not touching them just next to them so they get use to the size of my hand and it's presence. But there are also piggies with personalities who resist you and your have no matter how much you try. That thier personality just fights ever getting comfortable with you. I have one piggie whom I have had for a couple years and most of the time she will run.

Thanks so much for this video of your little piggy family 😍I am looking forward to getting two guinea pigs this week so glad to have found your channel as you are such a wonderful daddy to your little sweeties thanks again😘from Teneal in Australia 😎😁

Love your lessons. We have a herd of five girls and have learned several things from you. This just confirmed my idea to move their home up from the floor. I hadn't thought of the easy access door to let them feed like that. Right now their tamest moment is when we sit with our leg alongside their home and ask them to put their front paws on our leg to get greens. They will also put their front paws on our hands/wrists to feed. Only one of them (the youngest) hops up completely to our lap, and "tolerates" being held briefly. We've refocused our training to mimic this video with some of the handling you showed.

I got two guinea pigs for my birthday a couple days ago, reesie & sundae. Sundae will eat from my hand but reesie will not. She often gets scared when I approach her. I hope she eats when I am not present and doesn't let her sister dominate her. I worry like a new guinea pig mom lol your channel is really helpful

Thank you!

Awesome!! 😎 Thank you!! 🐹🐾🐹🐾 I adore all of the names!! 😊

Took me over a year to be able to touch my baby...hand feeding her every day! Now she comes up and stands on her pellet dish and begs to be pet! So rewarding! My other one was already tame, because she was my Mom’s before she passed away.

He said you’re not grabbing me when he ran.

All those taming videos where at the first steps pigs are already way calmer and trusting than my new piggies. It's a bit discouraging but I'll keep at it.

I love Billy he's such a cute big boy

Love this channel

Nate is so precious 👌❤️

Nate's awesome.

Scotty, this is so nice. I do though have a concern about the top of the ramp that has a metal piece protruding at the top. Looks like an easy fix, can you wrap and connect the the two metal pieces with electrical tape? Seems like an injury can occur with the way it currently is. Fyi I used a plastic rain gutter with an inside lip for my ramp, I then used a nail/screw to make holes at the top, then cable tied to the cage. I used a skinny somewhat burlapish mat from the 99c store, but and it slipped right into the inside lip of the rain gutter.

I think Scotty is as cute as his piggies. Wow.

Gorgeous ! Top video ! Love your videos 😊 cheers from down under 🇦🇺

This is the first video ive watched an his laugh is so cute an those piggys are so damn adorable

This is an awesome idea 😊 I am going to do this with my C&C cage

This its love.

The only thing they are trusting is that lettuce.

What a gorgeous piggy! I have one that looks so much like him in facial structure, my piggy Velvet has a short face like that, with a small nose and they kind of look like bunnies,lol!

Awww baby boy’s so cute

I love Nate’s nostrils! They look bigger because of the coloring 😂❤️

My piggies are outside, and they’re quite tame, I think the outdoors helps 😊

Omg I heard myself right off the bat “Hi Sweeties!” 🤣

tiny piggy update i filled The Boyzs cages with hay. Caramel bounded into Billis cage. He climbed the hay pile like a mountain (or a bed?). he managed to get hay on his head and walked a bit before pausing, to realize, oh how did i get hay on my head.

Thank you for your videos I’m a new guinea pig mama unfortunately I lost one baby made the mistake of buying from a pet store instead of a rescue

Guinea pigs hate their bums touched lol

with mine I just carefully took him out of the cage trying not to scare him, then if he didn’t want to come out and hid in his hide I grabbed him out of his hide and basically forced him to spend at least 30 minutes with me. he came running up to me after only about 5-6 days after I got him. sadly he went to a rescue because he was aggressive to our other males and we didn’t have enough space for him. he loved being out of his cage, though. also I wouldn’t recommend this with genuinely submissive guineas because it could really scare them and you could delay the taking process. if you have a dominant one it can be great to do it this way imo

You are such an inspiration, Scotty!❤️

I found a guinea pig on my offer up site and he was only 15$ with the cage and food and hay and water bowl. I seen this post for a week I did my research and found out that they have to have a friend they have to have a way bigger cage kaytee is not good hay. They eat veggies. They live for a long time guinea pig treats are trash. They are prey animals. All in a week I found out this much stuff I messaged the person and said I'm interested after I went and adopted another boy piggie bought two mid west cages and the oxbow treats and good Timothy hay not alpha. I did all my research and when I met up with this guy he was not feeding him everyday veggies bad cage everything was bad you should seen when that piggie came home I did not have to have them separated for long about a week had no idea what I was doing they love each other but are happy healthy and I have you to thank I watched all your videos thank-you and saskia

there so cute!!!!

I love guinea pigs too. And you are a very handsome young man .l love the way you care for your piggies as well.😂😂😂😂😂

I needed this video, Scotty... my piggies run away from me.. ha! Gotta go buy them some lettuce.. this surely helps, thanks! :D

Snoops is So cute!!!

Thank u for all the workkkkk

Aww I need your help! I’m happy u did this video I have 2 guinea pigs and their baby boy at first the male guinea pig(sushi) used to be so playful and he didn’t mind me petting him but he got an infection ( he is recovering now) from about 2 months and I’m the one who catches him to apply the medicine or at the vet I always hold him for the injection and now I feel like he is traumatized because I give him food and he eats from my hand I can pet him only between his eyes if I went a lil bit on his back he will flinch and I don’t know what to do I feel really sad because he was the cheerful playing one :( plz help

I love the names you give them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi! I am a big fan of your channel and your videos have been quite helpful! I was just wondering where you get your cages and cage material, my guineas cage is big enough but who wouldn't want to give their piggies more room to run around! Thank you and keep spreading guinea pig love

such beautiful colours :) i have a black one with a white stripe down his nose :) hes 14 months old in 4 days :)

Scotty: y r u running me: UR HANDS LOOK LIKE DEMON HANDS WHEN U DO IT LIKE DAT MAN EVEN IM SCARED

Thank you for your amazing videos! I recently adopted two young guinea pigs and they are very shy and so I have a question. How to spot clean and in general clean their cage when they are still quite unsure about my presence (they are slowly getting used to me) without stressing them too much? My heart breaks when I see them scared. Of course they mostly poop in their hiding places so they are most messy. Should I leave them alone for the first week or so or keep on cleaning around them so they get used to it? Would love some advice about that

I got gruff a buddie and sense then you can’t take one out without the other these animals are to amazing

Thanks bro

I love the bond you have with your piggies! Where did you get the hinges for the grids on the loft? And how did you attach them? For some reason Percy my piggy is still not wanting to use the ramp! Ugh, this is so annoying for me! I have a 2x2 space up there not even being used.. I'll have to modify where the ramp meets the upper level.. I love Nate and Snoop's cage!! I took Percy to the vet and am deciding not to neuter him because of the risks of infection.. So I've decided to expand my cage and get another boy instead.. Hopefully this works! Any tips on bonding a 10 month old piggies to another? Would a baby boy be best?

Scotty, "Well they're not dogs." And I course I think to myself, "But technically Snoop is a D-O-double-G!" Lol I have 4 Midwests on a rack. My kids can reach the bottom three cages, and they constantly bring treats and feed the pigs in those cages with the doors down and my kids don't try to pick them up unless I am there to help. As a result all of those bottom cages have pigs that are extremely tame and trusting because of this. They will come right up to us and let us pet them without running away. Only my husband and myself can reach the top cage. And while those pigs do get lots of treats and attention from us, they are both extremely wild and skittish. It's also very hard to pick them up and a traumatic experience seeing this huge hand reaching in chasing them when I have to take them out for cage cleanings and nail trims. I'm probably going to set up another rack next to this one and move them down to a lower shelf and give them a little more space between shelves so it's easier to reach in and pick them up. And also attach the Midwests to give some of the piggies on the bottom shelves more room to zoom. Or I might build something completely different. I want something with a flip down front panels like you showed in your video to make cleaning easier. I could just flip down the side and hold the trash can up and scrape the bedding into the trash can. The scooping out of the bedding takes so much time. And I wish the doors of the Midwest were larger. Without an open top, reaching in and picking up squirmy pigs with only one hand is really difficult for me and traumatic for the piggies. When I finally figure out my design, I'll be sure to share it with everyone!

Just built a 2x5 c and c cage with a 1x2 loft for two guineapigs im adopting I hope they like it 😭

Hey Scott can you do a video on how to make a lofty and ramp!!!😊😊😊😍

This method of training seems to be working better for me and my two little boy piggies, I tried Saskia's advice about holding them until they would stop squirming but it actually backfired on me so I had to start over. At least Luigi comes to me for food and now and he actually rests his little paws on my hand when he's chewing,but his friend still sneaks around even with food, I'm not a fan of being peed on but I found that there's some diapers for them online, 😁by the way Scotty your view is awesome you have such a beautiful huge house it looks like.

i have guinea pigs and there baby's and I'm going a cuddle sack for them like you suggested

"Feed me Seymour!" Only mine do that to me? Lol

Snoop, you are so pretty!

im new to your channel and youve helped me a lot with my new boars! Im assuming these are boars housed together, are they full adult? do you have any issues with them establishing dominance and is it just the two boys housed together?

I have a 2 x 6 c&c cage and i want to make a ramp and an upper part like in this video. What do i neeed to get and how to put together

Awwwww

Great video! How often should you feed the guinea pigs veggies? Once daily or twice a day? Love your videos❤

Guinea pigs :)

Snoopy was so determined to misbehave lol 😅

You are a darling male AM also bussy with met guineapigs 🤗😘💋 love i Why is Billy still on his own

Scott can i ask where you got your hinges from to enable the cage sides to drop?

Is Billy a Cuy? In my eyes he's always been much more bigger compared to your other pigs.

Very food motivated, I see

What kind of Timothy hay do you use? The brand?

Scotty, I have to male piggies together in two connected Midwest cages. I have cats and dogs so the cage has a top on it. Whenever I go to interact with them it’s hard because of having to take the top off. Any recommendations about the cage/cat situation and how to better bond with them? Also the cage is on the floor, so would it be better to put it up on a table so I’m at the pig’s level and not hovering over them. Thanks.

Spellbound...:-) Love M

We just got 2 brothers from a family who had them for almost 2yrs and Chewy (my son’s) is super trusting. But Shiloh (mine) isn’t and skittish. Neither will take food from us. Any suggestions?

How many times a day do you practice this ritual? I have some new baby piggies. They are only 5 weeks ols

When I'm trying to build trust with my rats, I go under them or to the side instead of over. I think because they are prey animals, they feel less threatened when something is not hovering over them.

RIP Sylvester

What is the ramp made of?

Hey Scotty I've had my 2 baby boys almost 2 weeks. One shy one adventurous. Both let me hand feed them but they dont like being touched while doing so I can pick the shy one up and hold him but the adventurous one bolts everytime I try to pick him up. Any advise.

funny enough i started with one finger on my own content with just being aloud to touch a nose when they stood up to get treats or veg. Yesterday Lucy let me give her a little rub one finger down her head and back. the other i have been able to approach with an underhand low to the ground and give them chin rubs and maybe a little head pet

😍😍😍💋💗🙏🙏🙏💖 Of course ☘️💚 the way tot do IT 😘

I just got my two girls about a week ago and I’m trying to pick them up, hand feed them hay and nothing is working.. they still run away I’m getting discouraged 😢

Where did you get your cage panels from?