making this post in an attempt to exonerate myself, i hate thinking i scared him. you can hear our bewilderment in the video.

also i'm really concerned about this behavior (actually i'd prefer him to be frozen, someone suggested it could be seizure), so if there's a guinea pig scientist lurking i'd love some insights!

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the video was him immediately after waking up!

he entered this state after 3 minutes of gentle petting (slow stroking from head to butt). when we realised he really was perfectly still after we were done with petting we grabbed the camera. i only did the finger circling movement on video to demonstrate he really zoned out 😭 i wasn't trying to scare him.

when he woke up the first thing he did was to yawn (we didn't capture this on camera), then his mouth started twitiching, like out of a rem cycle, and immediately after he waddled over to us for snacks.

that's why we thought he was sleeping or zoning out, not that he froze out of fright. we have another skittish pig who will freeze when we eventually have to pick him up for cleaning, so i promise we are well versed with how a frozen pig look like. (we respect his wishes and try not to pet or touch him unnecessarily)

butter exiting his state of "fright"