[Percy's Mom]

Only slightly.

I would personally rather see stores stop selling animals altogether and the shelters and rescues NOT have to take in/rehome any more abandoned animals, making people either be on an extremely long waiting list or not be able to adopt guinea pigs at all. Unfortunately, that will most likely never happen. If all of the stores stopped selling animals today, and all people that wanted to have pets had to adopt them, the shelters and rescues would NEVER be out of animals for long because there will always be people having accidents, irresponsible people who think it's good to breed animals so their kids can see "the miracle of life", back yard breeders, and people who have no concept of the number of animals they can handle or the quality of life they can give them (hoarders). There is absolutely no reason that stores need to sell animals.