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I just also wish people would give every animal, pet store or not, a chance.
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Do you know what happens when a person goes to the pet store to buy a pig? At least 2 more take it's place. They come from guinea pig mills or backyard breeders who backbreed their sows to death. They come in tiny plastic containers from the mills or breeders in the back of a hot truck with all sorts of other animals in too small containers and arrive at the store sick, pregnant and often with mites or other parasites. The only way to stop this horrid cycle is for people to stop buying pigs in petstores. There is no such thing as rescuing a pig from a petstore.
Also if people buy from petstores and no one adopts from shelters, the shelters stay full and pigs that are homeless are turned away from the shelters because there is no room. By buying at the petstore you're probably condemning more than one pig to die. There are hundreds of thousands of pigs in shelters and rescues that need homes. Why support breeders by purchasing a guinea pig in a petstore when you can save a pigs life by adopting it from a rescue or shelter.