I know exactly what carmelababy is saying. My wife worked at a petshop. You people totally don't understand that petstore workers love animals and try to do their best always and sometimes they may goof up or whatever but thats because they are humans. In this case I guess it is sort of the petstore worker's fault about mis-sexing the little piglets but that doesnt meen that that particular person doesnt love guinea pigs and doesnt care for them. I myself own 3 guinea pigs. Three sows all bought from petstores. They are the joy of my life (seeing as how I have no kids yet). Buying from petstores isnt promoting breeding (i guess in a small way it is) but people buy from petstores because there are guinea pigs at petstores too looking for homes. If everyone adopted from rescues then the guinea pigs at petstores would be put to sleep and guinea pigs would seize to exist. I myself live very far from any rescue. (I live near
lypop farm but the closest thing to a GP they have is a hamster).
Ok, back to the point. Carmelababy bought a pregnant sow from a petstore not knowing it was pregnant. In a way it's a good thing she did. Because if the pig were to give birth in the petstore and had complications the petstore owner would just turn their cheek and pretend like nothing is happening. (I know this because like I said my wife once worked at a petstore a year ago). And at least carmelababy was given the chance to help this guinea pig and give it's babies wonderful homes that of which the petstore would not be able to provide.