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If everyone adopted from rescues then the guinea pigs at petstores would be put to sleep and guinea pigs would seize to exist.
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Lame, lame, lame argument. Guinea pigs will hardly *cease* to exist if they are not purchased from pet stores.
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Buying from petstores isnt promoting breeding
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On the contrary, buying for pet stores DIRECTLY promotes breeding. Where do you think those guinea pigs in store come from? People don't just go out and pluck them off of trees. In big pet store chains, there is a breeder/mill some where with guinea pigs whose SOLE purpose is to breed more and more pigs to supply the stores. In mom and pop stores, they often breed their own pigs. When you buy one from a pet store, the pet store then realizes that there is a demand, and breeds more or buys more from their breeder/mill. Either way, the end result is MORE guinea pigs.
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In a way it's a good thing she did
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It is NOT a good thing she did. This ONE particular pig may benefit (if, that is, she can manage to financially provide for her and her babies) but it condemns other pigs to be bred and brought to the pet store.
It's a cycle.
There is NO praise here for purchasing a guinea pig from a pet store.