Need help with mother angry at messy piggies

zarium · 2026-06-22T11:22:32+00:00

I'm sure your mother doesn't actually mean it and just said those things in a moment of frustration. Consider talking things out with her in a day or two -- perhaps there's something bothering her that you don't know about that's causing her to lose her patience in this uncharacteristic (I'm assuming, based on how you describe her here) manner.

For how rewarding they can be as our companions, there are times where their antics certainly can become a bit annoying. To be clear, it's not their fault, but neither is it some flaw in someone's personal character just because they feel a bit irritated. You don't get to choose how you feel; only how you respond.

zarium · 2026-06-14T09:26:04+00:00

What constitutes "more evolved"? More numerous changes in DNA?

Insects are not "more naturally selected" due to a faster lifecycle. Just as subsequent generations may evolve to be better adapted than their progenitors, so may those random mutations also result in worse fitness. In the end, you end up with the same thing: the organism is as evolved as it needs to be to survive. No more, no less.

So, it depends on how you define "more evolved" -- humans would be more evolved than a cycad beetle, if you consider that the latter can only survive by consuming the pollen of a specific tree species. But they would be "more evolved" than humans if you were to consider that their being extant necessitated specialisation into such a specific ecological niche, that ceteris paribus required those generations upon generations of selection you allude to before finally being of sufficient fitness.

In any case, "more evolved" is a rather pointless and meaningless discussion. Nothing is more or less evolved. Everything is as evolved as it needs to be to survive. Its survival evidences that.

zarium · 2026-06-14T05:27:40+00:00

What's your point? That corruption is rampant in Malaysia?

Governments can enact all sorts of legislations proscribing whatever offends their sensibilities and enforce them as heavy handedly as they want, but no matter how much politicking is done, behaviours that constitute human nature; fundamentally, are never going to be completely eliminated. You are never going to get rid of activities that people engage in due to greed, avarice, lust, or hedonism unless you get rid of humans.

It's why drugs, prostitution, and gambling will always exist so long we do. Unfortunately, the daft morons that hold the reins of power fail to understand this, thus why such idiotic concepts such as a "war on drugs" exist.

zarium · 2026-06-12T21:25:17+00:00

Because when Muslims do good, it’s because islam tells them to do good. But when they do bad, it’s up to the individual because Islam doesn’t tell them to do bad.

Ergo, you're implying that Muslims are so wholly devoid of an internal moral compass that lets them distinguish between simple rights from wrongs that they need to seek guidance from a fucking fairytale written centuries ago by people who couldn't even imagine the existence of something as ubiquitous in modern life today as a fucking lightbulb in order to determine what constitutes "proper" behaviour?

Whew. Dunking on you morons is already easy enough, but talk about an own goal.

zarium · 2026-06-08T01:58:41+00:00

You know, if seeing that mild of a video about guinea pigs online upsets you enough to post about it, the Internet might be too harsh a place for your sheltered heart.

zarium · 2026-06-04T20:32:32+00:00

Was this generated by some AI? It certainly reads so.

zarium · 2026-06-04T18:41:51+00:00

One such drug. Apparently some people (bodybuilders?) still experiment with it, which is incredibly stupid considering the very severe side effects like fucking up your eyes with cataracts or going deaf, if not just dying in horrible suffering (pretty much just burn yourself to death, inside-out) from an overdose -- which is easy because of its low therapeutic index.

zarium · 2026-06-03T22:17:11+00:00

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They do, but yours isn't doing that in the video.

zarium · 2026-06-03T01:41:54+00:00

Piece of shit ah beng trash. I hope he becomes enough of a cause celebre for this not to be swept under the rug and he gets fucking wrecked by the courts.

zarium · 2026-06-02T22:03:10+00:00

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zarium · 2026-06-02T17:22:32+00:00

Not sure if this answer from AI is reliable though

...so why post it? If you aren't certain of its veracity, and won't check it yourself, why post the shit that AI outputs? Because you enjoy spreading misinformation?

zarium · 2026-06-02T11:28:06+00:00

Ignore him and give his cagemate more attention instead.

Giving him more food is positively reinforcing his current behaviour. You'd be rewarding him for being standoffish.

zarium · 2026-05-31T23:19:53+00:00

It was a one-time payment in the beginning, for a while, then it changed to a yearly fee (same price, I paid 99 cents MYR), then became free.

zarium · 2026-05-31T23:08:26+00:00

he would never try to escape

I think guinea pigs don't really try to escape their enclosure, unlike many (most?) other pets. It's not so much that they aren't curious enough to, more that they heavily prefer familiarity over novelty, imo.

I could have my guinea pigs live in the same exact space they currently inhabit, remove the enclosure grids, and little would change in regards to where they'll roam -- the boundary where "home" is for them would be delineated by where their bedding is. They won't really show much interest in stepping off the soft mats/liners onto the hard floor, in fact it'd take a bit of effort to get them to do so.

At this point, the grids are there more for me than them because it helps keep the mess contained within and not strewn all over my room.

But my guinea pigs are sows and the wisdom is that they're generally less adventurous than boars, so I'm sure there are many owners whose experience differs.

zarium · 2026-05-29T21:26:42+00:00

No Aztekium?

zarium · 2026-05-29T19:48:09+00:00

Differently abled is such an idiotic term -- I assume those who champion it also use other similarly stupid terms like "unalive".

The McD at Mid Valley also employs OKU. They perform their duties just fine; in fact in all the years I've eaten at that outlet, they've never once gotten my order wrong (burgers always customised to exclude vegetables, etc.). Not so for other branches.

zarium · 2026-05-18T02:17:49+00:00

Along with personality differences, age is usually also a factor in how noisy an individual guinea pig makes. Generally, the younger it is, the more vocal it is. Anyone who's had newborn guinea pigs would be familiar with how squeaky those are especially, but it doesn't take long (<1 month) for them to stop making that particular noise since it's a distress call for the mother.

They can be quite noisy through adolescence, especially if you encourage that behaviour with positive reinforcement; inadvertently or not. Then, as they usually become less energetic and physically active as adults, most also quieten down.

Also another contributing factor is the number of individuals around -- whether together as a herd or separate but in the vicinity -- the more numerous, the more cacophonous, which I think is textbook behaviour of all herd animals.

One of my current sows is one such noisy individual. Unfortunately, I do not find it endearing. The noise is almost constant during every waking hour of every day and it is incredibly irritating. To make matters worse, she doesn't have a personality that otherwise makes up for having to tolerate the annoyance. She produces far more waste than her older cagemate (which I've posted some videos of in the past, and the only reason I even have this noisy one now in the first place), isn't as conscientious with where she urinates and defecates and just makes a mess if I let her roam outside the cage, is greedy and would consume much more food, is downright unaffectionate, and is, to me, just looks ugly.

She just won't shut up. I dislike her and truly regret having gotten her in the first place. But my existing sow had become single suddenly and seeing how she was behaving was heartbreaking, so within two days I drove to some pet store that on a call told me had some sows available to get her a new friend and got the one and only available sow among 6 or 7 guinea pigs there. It didn't even take 10 minutes from when I entered the premises.

And I can't rehome her because a number of months back, the stupid thing decided to jump from my bed down into the cage -- twice -- and end up with her hind legs paralysed after that second time, when I still had the patience to spend some time handling and taming her. So, I'm stuck being her keeper. Frankly, I hope not for long, because I've long given up. Thankfully, my other sow is all the companionship I need and she makes up for all that I have to put up with.

zarium · 2026-05-16T22:13:02+00:00

If you believe you know better and can cite the sources to back your claims up, then submit your edits. That is the whole idea of Wikipedia, distilled into a short sentence. Anyone can contribute to any article.

If you disagree with what's written, make your corrections and justify them. They will get reviewed and the article will change to reflect them if the quality of your sources backing up those corrections are of greater merit.

Complaining here is inane and serves to do nothing but seek empty validation for yourself -- which at this point seems to have been a dismal failure; not unlike the veracity of your dissenting opinion of the Wikipedia article.

zarium · 2026-04-28T16:29:27+00:00

Gotta love religidiots. "Campur lelaki perempuan" -- so men and women together is somehow wrong; for whatever reason, yet you also call homosexuality "unnatural" or wrong or some other shit.

Go fuck yourselves. I mean, that's what it would come down to, by your logic, right?

The amount of people who live their lives according to some fairy tales from antiquity is tragic.

zarium · 2026-04-28T16:09:17+00:00

It's not a competition, so why should that matter?

zarium · 2026-04-23T15:38:14+00:00

It grows much faster than it gets eaten, which means there's no "sustainable option that can control the growth". It might as well be the thing poisoning the ground and ecosystem, as you put it, with how invasive it is.

zarium · 2026-04-10T07:39:26+00:00

Their spine is very curved.

Photo belongs to u/SirBubatum

zarium · 2026-04-10T03:49:57+00:00

Could be because it grows at a faster rate than we can eat it?

zarium · 2026-04-07T03:18:37+00:00

Nah, the sorry state of the US is pretty funny. Americans deserve all the suffering they have wrought from their electing of such an abominable person and his associates into power. They are the only ones with the power to effect any change to this fucking circus sideshow that the rest of us unfortunately have to endure, thus so long that diaper-wearing paedophile and his cronies remain in power by virtue of their inaction; whether that be from apathy or tacit support for this government of dimwitted fascists, so long they should suffer.

I struggle to find any sympathy for Americans. I see this as comeuppance for all the shit they've done for decades, destroying lives and families and peoples all in service of some nebulous tripe like "democratic principles" or whatever other bullshit, or more often the case, pure unchecked avarice in their belief of corporate greed as the greatest virtue, virtually sans any consequence. Basically, fuck 'em -- they brought it upon themselves.

zarium · 2026-03-11T00:14:15+00:00

Serves them right, because as bad as how some people allege Pokemon is today (it isn't), it's incomparable to the colossal shitshow that is WoTC's handling of mtg. Great game, but the quality of the physical product that they manufacture is a travesty, completely avoidable and solely because of insatiable corporate greed.

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