’Tis the season to indulge in one of America’s greatest fall obsessions: pumpkin spice lattes.

You’re probably either chugging them at your local Starbucks or watching everybody else become consumed by the craze from afar — love it or not, pumpkin spice has now completely infiltrated our lives.

But it hasn’t yet reached the animal world quite yet, and these two guinea pigs are trying to understand this peculiar human obsession. Their very serious (but hilarious) discussion will have you wondering too: why is everything going pumpkin?