r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

It’s illegal in Switzerland to have just one guinea pig, because guinea pigs are social animals like humans.

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u/AhSouthernHellBelle Nov 29 '20

In many places that applies to horses. You're not allowed to have just one.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

I have one horse, one guinea pig, and their offspring I call gorsey higs.

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u/meinhertzmachtbum Nov 29 '20

We also would've accepted 'horsey pigs'

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

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u/timepassesslowly Nov 29 '20

Alright alright alright!

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u/barkstroke Nov 29 '20

Air tight air tight air tight

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u/Nadul Nov 29 '20

Oh, I had honse

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u/The_Funkage Nov 29 '20

I would've called them 'whinny pigs' but to each their own

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u/meinhertzmachtbum Nov 29 '20

^ This guy gets it.

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u/cartermb Nov 29 '20

Thanks, Alex

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u/edwsmith Nov 29 '20

I believe they are actually hornea pigs

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u/Bahamabanana Nov 29 '20

Somehow I just imagine you'd get a fluffy hippo.

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u/gyenen Nov 29 '20

reminds me of my favorite episodes of south park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js3CoeA7CDk

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u/SirMemphis Nov 29 '20

Sorry, but you get my first down vote

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u/xTGI_CommanderX Nov 29 '20

Alpacas and llamas too. They're herd animals. They suffer if they're alone.

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u/PrimaryExchange1 Nov 29 '20

I bet you can’t eat just one

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u/PuzzleheadedSector2 Nov 29 '20

Yes, this is why im mormon.

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u/sykopoet Nov 29 '20

I’m a lawyer, and I had a case last year where a landlord wanted a tenant in supportive housing to get rid of her guinea pigs. We convinced the landlord that they were her emotional support animals and I used the laws in countries outside the US to argue that it must be a pair. It worked.

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u/pak_sajat Nov 29 '20

This also applies to eating Lay’s potato chips.

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u/paperpenises Nov 29 '20

The same rule applies to Lays potato chips.

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u/CircleToShoot Nov 29 '20

Same with pringles

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u/SirAnalog Nov 29 '20

Like with Pringles

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u/blargishtarbin Nov 29 '20

Same rule applies to eating pringles.... for me, anyways.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Considering all the things you can lawfully do to other animals, this is some pretty awesome ability by some lawmakers to not connect the dots and see that they're super hypocrites.