How to Teach a Guinea Pig to Touch & Follow a Target Stick

9/29/2015

The video above is a tutorial for teaching your guinea pig to follow a nose target. The written step by step tutorial can be found on the Nose Target page on this site. Following a target is an easy trick to teach, and most guinea pigs pick up on it quickly. Hopefully this video tutorial will be helpful to those of you starting out with training your piggy!

4 Comments

Melissa Gosse

10/21/2015 08:04:41 am

This is too cute! I am going to be trying this with Celery later. I already started trying to teach her this trick https://smallpetselect.com/guinea-pig-guide/guinea-pig-tricks but her attention span was a little off hahaha I'm determined to go back at it again with this one.

Jenna link

10/21/2015 01:35:13 pm

Cool! Let me know how it works out for you. :) Guinea pigs definitely aren't the most patient at first haha. They do get much better the more you work with them though! :)

Melissa

10/22/2015 09:55:47 am

Will do!! Wish me luck haha

Olive

4/14/2020 03:01:32 pm

I tried this with my guinea pigs, for a short training session and they almost learmed it already!

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Welcome to the Guinea Pig Tricks blog! Here you will find articles about guinea pig training that may not be on the other pages of the site, and more detailed posts about common questions and problems regarding teaching tricks to your guinea pigs. If you have any suggestions for topics you would like to see me write about on this blog, you are more than welcome to email me through the contact page on this site with your suggestion. Otherwise, feel free to read through the posts and have fun training your piggy! :)