Unfortunately Guinea Pigs are used (or better, ABUSED) in animal-testing.
Animal testing is condoned by those who would tell you that medicine might save your life in case you were to fall victim of a very serious disease ....
.... what they don't say is this: the kicker is that the Guinea Pigs are victims of the medical system.
But then, as usual, they bring "God" (?!) into the argument.
"God created Guinea Pigs for experimentation", they would go on saying .... oh, yes, this is the pathetic world we live (or are trapped) in ....
??? What type of pig are we talking about? Picture-link please... and WELCOME to the Forums Mikoto80.
Tomas
Guinea pigs. Not pigs. (A kind of rodent -- looks like a large hamster, but they aren't hamsters.) Know what I mean?
People eat rabbits and cows, don't they? That's just a fact of life.
People eat rabbits and cows, don't they? That's just a fact of life.
People also murder one another. I don't want to watch that, either.
Sorry, I think that came across as harsh. I just find eating animal carcasses rather gross. I know it is accepted by most people in society, but I have a different opinion.
This one caught me by surprise because it was the whole animal- little feet, head, tail and all. It was the first time I had ever seen it, and I was trying to figure out what the heck these people were eating. I don't judge people for eating meat, I just wouldn't like to do it.
Who could eat a guinea pig? They are the sweetest little things.
I have one, myself. He's a very anxious little guy, so we get along well.
<hugs>
Athie
First picture I got in my head about the Guinea Pig was one of those strange balloon shaped pigs I've seen that people have as pets; never met one in real life. Thanks for the pictures - they sent me "lolling" for a few minutes.
Oh.
You're thinking of pot bellied pigs, maybe?
Yes! 
Does the small hamster like ones really come from Guinea?
Maybe they're relatives to the scandinavian 'lemming'; the 'lemming' is a relative to the 'vole' and is a small rodent. It lives mainly in the fjelds in northern scandinavia and its latin name is Lemm'us lemmus. Its russian/siberian relative is Dicros'tonyx torqua'tus. In the middle regions of Sweden one can find Myo'des schistic'olor. The three of these are all 12-17cm in lenght.
I've always been a fan of the capybara. As a child I had a book about one. There was a link to Kolmården zoo in the first link in post # 24. That's just a few miles from where I live.
I saw a hare yesterday, bouncing across a parking lot. Its hind legs was so prominent that I began to think "kangaroo + wallaby". But I'm not that daft today that I think that they're related. I've been studying the neighbors cats as they move about the yard. They're a little crazy and doesn't know that they are cats as much as cats in general.
I used to have guinea pigs, I have snakes, a leopard gecko and an iguana now.
Guineas used to run around the back garden and go into the shed where their hutch was. The last guinea pig I bought was sent back to the pet shop by my father because the other ones s*at all over the floor of the shed
There are some guinea pigs in the local pet shop just down from where I'm living now, and they are SO cute.
Mind you, the kittens they have there are cuter!!
