[roosterboy]

Dagwell, there are so many animals out there, it's just insane. People don't know where to look, and people don't know where to go when they have a pet available. Shelters are the beginning, but look on craigslist.org. I adopted all of my piggies from craigslist ads, from people who had them as pets. They are all nice. They were all free. I gave the folks some home made jam as a thank you.

The ones in pet stores just sit there. They are mass produced and shipped out. Forget about any socializing. There was a breeder close to here that had hundreds of pigs breeding in dog crates. Six sows and one male per crate. The pigs were sitting on a foot and a half of their feces, the babies shipped out as fast as they were born.
Someone said you don't know what you are getting from a private person, but you do from a store. Actually it is way, way, the other way around! You get someone's pet that they want to find a good home for. And the only reason to buy from a show/breeder is to get a pedigree of some type.

Most people just want a nice pet that looks good. All of the pigs I adopted look great and they were all free, except for going to get them. And they are all sweet.

Most shelters and pounds euthanize pigs brought to them because the spaying and neutering is too expensive. So try to find your pigs from a rescue or something like craigslist.org. Just click pets and then type guinea pig or guinea pigs! Bam, you'll have pigs in less than ten days!