Millie the talking guinea pig shows off her skills
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2023
- Jenny Panella and her pets have gained a major following on TikTok and Instagram showing just how smart guinea pigs can be. She joins us with her special buddy Millie.
Anyone interested in getting guinea pigs, please do proper research into the care they need and consider if you can commit to it before getting some. They are also social creatures, which is why you need to get 2. Lastly, adopt, don't shop! There's so many piggies that need homes right now, find a rescue near you!
For anyone in the Pittsburgh area, there's a guinea pig rescue by the name of Wheek Care Guinea Pig Rescue. Reach out to them if you're interested in adopting or fostering!
Guinea Pigs Love attention. I raised two, one at a time. Alfie was the first and I got him as a baby. It may sound funny, but he picked me out. I was walking through a pet store, and this little Piggy literally looked at me as if saying, I'm Alfie and you're going to be my Mommy! It's like I heard it in my mind and heart. So, out I came with this baby, a Guinea Pig book, and about $200.00 of food and housing. Every day I would sit by his cage and we would talk. Soon he let me know cage was not enough. I bought little fences and made pens. He would walk into my hand, then explore the fence. Of course it was full of hay always, he of course had food and hay in the cage. His fence became larger. We talked about everything and he loved stuffed animals. His ground hog, which he liked to fight with, and a tiny teddy bear and pillow and blanket. He layed the teddy bear on the pillow and literally covered it up when he went to bed. A little later, he said no cage Mommy! He never went back into it except for travel. By then the house was Piggy Proofed. No fence, no cage. He pushed his igloo and toys under a large end table and it became a Condo. I researched all during this time of course. He liked his veggies on a lite weight plate, when he finished, he pushed it out of the Condo. He drank out of little doggie bowls, and had the run of the house. Everyone who met him knew he was special. When I had to hire someone to fix something in the house, I'd often find the service person in the floor with Alfie on his lap having "conversations." His fame spread in the community and more people visited Alfie than me. They'd just lay in the floor and talk to him. We traveled together and he loved meeting people. I lost him quite a few years ago, but never the Love. Nothing will ever convince me that God didn't send an Angel in Piggy form.❤❤❤❤ I Love you still, I always will. Thank you for hearing about Alfie ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Considering guinea pigs poop over a hundred times a day, you must have been constantly picking up poop and cleaning up piss. My piggies live in an extremely spacious 6x2 enclosure and I spot clean every day. Guinea pigs can't really be free roamed cos they can't be toilet trained like dogs, cats & bunnies can.
Sweet story but anyone who actually owns and cares for guinea pigs knows that free roaming can never happen.
@@seajay632 Alfie had igloos in each room. I used hospital pads under them. He always went to the pads to do his business, and I just changed his pads about three times a day, or as needed. Believe it or not, he trained himself to go on the pads. His story is true and he did run free. Even the Vet said he was not a usual Piggy. I was so Blessed to have him. 🥰
@@nancysmallwood7088 I had a guinea pig named Alfie too! She was a girl instead of a boy
Your Alfie sounds wonderful!! ♥
If my guinea pig, Bathsheba, had access to buttons, it would be a stream of profanity.
Millie loves her MAD button
I ❤ love that at the end when the interviewer said “My daughter is gonna want a Guinea Pig after watching this!” And you were quick to say “Make sure she gets two!” I am officially in love with Millie!
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I was sitting next to my guinea pig cages when the video said "pea flakes." Suddenly I had four piggies begging for pea flakes. 😂
I had no idea a Piggie would talk with the buttons. Millie is amazing!
My two guinea pigs live at my dads and when I go over there they get so excited. When I hear them squeal It’s like they’re saying mommy’s home! ☺️
Awwwwww Millie's so scared but awwwww this is so cute! I hope she got enough oat hay after becoming a star!
Of course!! ❤
Thank you Jenny for promoting an updated view on small animals. Humans have been awful to Guinea pigs, rabbits, rats, birds, for so long. We still are to dogs and cats as well, but smaller animals are even more horribly treated. They are intelligent, they need large cages, lots of mental stimulation, lots of time, veterinary costs can be very expensive, etc. They don’t ask to end up with us, we are the ones who chose them and we need to take responsibility for that. To 90% of people considering getting these animals I would advice them not to, because taking care of them properly and giving them happy and meaningful life’s with quality is a true commitment of sacrifice. Don’t do it if you are not 100% committed, they have no one else but their owner and they deserve happy lives.
Thank you Jenny for promoting this improvement and for loving Millie and Coco so much ❤️
I agree with all you said, however I would caution against projecting true intelligence onto species that are incapable of it. Can Guinea Pigs, rabbits, rats learn patterns and make basic choices, yes, but they're not capable of abstract intelligence like ape species, elephants, and such.
I have 2 guinea pigs right now, and I've had others in the past. I have been able to train most of mine, using patience and simple commands. My current ones are trained to stand up for food and to be quiet at night. They even learned to do things like tearing paper slowly at night so it would not make so much noise. They understand a few words like "Pen?" (to get put away and go to the bathroom) or "Play?" and react accordingly.
I'm sure if I really took the time, I could teach them to "tell" me exactly what food they wanted, for instance. They're a lot smarter than people give them credit for.
Thanks for having us!
Millie is such a smart cookie!! 🍪
I have a bunch of Guinea pigs. They are very clever and smart.
Millie is one ROUND girl haha
She surely get's the snacks she asks for!
My boy would just ignore those buttons, he's way too lazy. My girl though, she could be up for that, although she isn't that food driven
Guinea pigs have 44 neurons in the brain compared to a mouse that has 14 neurons in its brain, it’s not about the size of the brain it’s how many neurons are in the brain, and i miss my guinea pigs and they lived for 7 years when i first was given two boy guinea pigs that was abused and i fell in love with them they are the sweetest little animals i would listen to them communicate to each other with communicate with each other i went out and to all i could to learn about how to take care of them and their needs
Millie 👏
I'm going to have to try it
Scotty try the bell I sent to the rescue. Thats what my pigs use, so I sent one to Saskia. They ring them for attention and food.
I need to get this & train my lot! Thanks Millie!😎🥰
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There needs to be a button that says 'I hate these buttons and loving animal owners can tell what their pet is thinking if they're closely bonded.'
Sounds like somebody needs a "mad" button.
You can, but why wouldn't you want an extra tool to help communication?
For example, once I had both a budgie and a cat and i kept them separate but once the cat had gotten into the bird room. The budgie rang his bell and hid behind his mirror. Me, in the kitchen, heard the bell. I was like, 'what's with the bell?' And I go to look and I'm horrified that the cat had gotten into the bird room and I got him out of there before something happened. So I'm glad I had that little extra bit of communication.
Sorry people, but these videos are random and cherry picked to make animals appear like they are choosing a button. To start, they cannot even see the differences in buttons.
I use a 24/7 pet cam to capture Millie's button presses. She often presses when I'm not even in the room.
You are the one who can't tell the difference between anything. You are accusing others of doing what you've done your whole life.
You are the one who would resort to lying and pretending so you think everyone behaves the same way you do.
Stop that.
So, a translation device for animals, and yet. No, scientist thought of this, or is using this technology for research purposes.
Non what so ever.
This has been known of and used for over half a century now. The start of 'button' communication was in 1970 with the LANA project, teaching a chimp (also named Lana) to communicate using a lexigram keyboard very much like the buttons used now. By the time she was 5 she knew over 100 words and could construct sentences up to 10 words long. Lana independently taught herself how to read the lexigrams, letting researchers directly ask her questions through the computer, to which she would respond correctly. She would also make up terms for things she didn't know the name of (like 'banana which-is green' to ask for a cucumber). The research done with Lana is the basis of assisted speech technology used to this day for nonverbal humans with physical impairments - word boards and speech buttons exist because of her. The first nonverbal people to communicate via word boards were taught by Lana's researchers as a follow-up project to hers. She was studied by over 100 researchers and her data was used in over 200 research papers and books.
Lana isn't even the most remarkable great ape who learned to communicate in this way, only the first. Kanzi the bonobo is thought to know over 3000 spoken words and uses over 300 lexigrams. He learned his first words completely by accident, as his mother was being taught while nursing him and he surprised the researchers by spontaneously using the lexigrams himself as a baby. He also picked up sign language on his own by watching videos of Koko the gorilla. In addition he can make stone tools, make campfires (and cook marshmallows over them and put them out afterward) and play Minecraft, in which he and his son Teco recently beat the Ender Dragon.
The main reasons button communication didn't catch on earlier was because:
1. People thought only apes could possibly be 'human' enough to use language, so no one even attempted to teach other species;
2. The suggestion that any animal, apes included, could use any form of human language was derided in research communities as anthropomorphism (a position now understood to be a glaring example of anthropocentrism), leading to research in this area getting little support academically;
3. It freaks people out that we aren't as special as we might like to think, so they tend to dismiss even the most compelling evidence that animals can do this;
4. It brings up uncomfortable questions of ethics - if an animal can 'speak', even in a simplistic way like through buttons, what does this mean for our responsibilities to them?
Long story short, animals have been communicating this way longer than humans have.
This is great but don’t take animals into a TV studio! Too scary fir them and unnecessary