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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Guinea pig bites are the worst.

It's not the force of the bite, although it does hurt (they bite through wood after all). It's the humiliation from having one of the most fragile, easy to kill pets decide that it can express its displeasure by biting your hand.

Damn little meat potato. The only reason you can even bite me is because you're so damn fragile I can't risk dropping you. Also, the reason I'm holding you is to trim your nails because you don't wear them down naturally since you live your entire life on padded flannel blankets. Where do you even get off having displeasure to express?

If you weren't so damn cute, you'd be on the grill.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You gotta get the little potato some friends, otherwise they'll develop mental health issues

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Naw, the potato has friends. Mental health is still broken.

She's actually very sweet. She just managed to luck into the discovery that biting gets us to move faster.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, got it.

Yeah sometimes that is the nature of potato love. They live in a world of absolutes and tremendous dangers; they don't always have time for calm reflection.

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I've had a guinea pig and he never bit me. Not once. Only licked. He trusted me and I made sure he had a good life. He was outside and free to roam the garden until dusk. And inside the home if the outside was too cold/dark/wet. The garden also offered lots of plants to eat and hide under. He had great avriety in diet alongside the petfood and guineapig essentials. He would join me at the dinner table with his own plate of safe greens. We would snuggle every day. Everytime I had to catch him, it sometimes turned into a chase. He ofcourse didn't want to go into the cage. The cage only served to protect him against predators at night, and from our electronic cables. Which ofcourse he didn't understand. But he still accepted me picking him up when catching him. No biting. He knew he'd be free again come morning. He died how he lived after my dad let him out and left him outside overnight because he couldn't catch him. My only regret is that I didn't know they had to come in pairs.

So what in the fuck are you doing with that guinea pig that it distrusts you so? I literally had to chase him sometimes and he still didn't bite me when I gently but quickly scooped him.

[–] harry315@feddit.de 0 points 2 months ago

on the grill

Yum

[–] UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

i have 2 blue and gold macaws, and let me tell you, not much stops that beak when it wants to get through something. walnuts, hazelnuts, brazil nuts...child's play!

i have to feed my guys 2x4s so they dont eat my house!

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PSI... in science memes? 🤮

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most people understand psi, not newtons. You should know better lol

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The rest of the world would like a word. Do you really think only you people in the US exist?

Also the equivalent for psi is Pa (=N/m²), usually as kPa or bar (100 kPa).

Most people don't really understand either to a great extent, and are just familiar with one or the other.

As always though, metric wins because of its interoperability with all the other metric units.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Crazy parrot and reptile lady here to confirm. I would much rather take a bite from a large snake any day of the week than take a bite from one of my birds. I've had to get stitches multiple times because of my little feathered assholes.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have been bitten by a cat that meant it and a dog that meant it. I would rather be bitten by a dog. The cat hit bone. The dog did not. The hamster bite bled profusely, but otherwise wasn't too bad. Based on the information in this comic, I am going to avoid birds.

[–] shikogo@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

What are you doing to be bitten by so many animals?

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've experienced the same and always thought PSI is a pretty absurd way to gauge puncture damage like this.

[–] nikstarling@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

The thing about dogs is that they don't damage you by puncturing. They try to grab onto your body parts and tear your flesh out by moving their head furiously. In that regard PSI can be a useful metric as it describes how hard it will be to open their jaws.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm almost afraid to ask... How much?

[–] teletext@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The average Green Winged Macaw can generate around 400 PSI in one bite – that’s much stronger than the average human bite!

Moluccan Cockatoo: It’s bite force suprasses even that of the Macaw, weighing in at over 500 PSI.

https://www.parrotwebsite.com/which-parrot-has-the-worst-bite/

[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 2 months ago

Certainly a big number

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

What's PSI?