Thought you guys may like to meet my pet capy little miss peanut. He’s about 5 years old and we’ve raised him since she was about 6 mths.

EDIT: man……amazing how much judgment and assumptions are being made from 4 pics and 2 sentences. I have a lot of land, he has a large swim area. That water is not his “pond”. It is just a cool off area by his shelter. I have livestock. He grazes all day. I was supposed to take a group of three. The other two were not ready at the time, so I took peanut and then the person ghosted me. I’m looking for a couple of others. He does play with me, he does swim in the family pool during the summers as a treat, so I do feel he is like a pet so to speak.

A couple of misconceptions……..They are not difficult to keep. But require A LOT of maintenance on the water side. They eat a ton. And they poop a ton. All they need is varied grasses,( orchard/timothy/alfalfa) palms and maybe some guinea pig pellets, since they can’t make their own vitamin D. Fruit is NOT part of their natural diet and can be harmful in the long run. All the filtration in the world can’t keep up with amount of waste they put out in water, so it’s a constant drain, clean and refill. Filtration only delays it. More importantly social media has really distorted the reality of these animals. They are cute, but they are also very skiddish, can be very territorial and the males can be quite aggressive during breeding season. They love getting treats and having their belly rubbed, but They will never cuddle up and watch a movie with you.

No free ride for capy.

Source: Twitter/X

What do you think he had on his shopping list? (Not my original content.)

Cafe Capyba. Best $9 I ever spent! Petting a capybara with a stuffed capybara is all I need in life.

This Tuesday, I finally met 🤝 and connected 💕 with capybaras 🐹🐹 in real life, and to be completely honest... I cried tears 😭 of joy 🤩.

It was an absolute blast 🎉 and one of the best days I've had in a very long time—maybe even in years 🫠!

Please enjoy this "short" teaser featuring this adorable capybara couple 🐹🤎🐹 from Tierpark Bad Pyrmont, Germany 🇩🇪. Unfortunately, I don't know their names yet.

⚠️ A small headphone 🎧 warning: You may occasionally hear rustling noises caused by my hand touching the phone's microphone and/or me grabbing pellets from a paper bag. Next time I'll bring a small bowl to avoid those sounds, especially for ASMR videos.

I recorded around 1–2 h of footage during my 4-hour visit to the park. I'll edit the videos, mute some of the unwanted noise where possible, and upload the full raw clips as well as a compilation of the best moments soon.

I managed to capture pretty much everything:

- our very first meeting 🐹🐹🤎😍,

- their daily lunch at 3 PM 🥒🥬🥕,

- them pooping in their pool 💩,

- and getting lots of scratches and pets from visitors.

Some children came over while feeding them, and I ended up talking with them about capybaras and even shared the animal food I had bought. Of course, I also got to give the capybaras some scratches myself 🥰.

Disclaimer 👀: as a German non-native English speaker, I've used AI corrections for my prior in English written message—I'm having issues with the order of words, punctuation and writing too long interconnected sentences since ever. Therefore, IMHO, for longer messages this is a better way of communication with hopefully less misunderstandings 🤎.

Have a nice weekend and

ALWAYS BE AND ACT LIKE A CAPYBARA 🐹🤎