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Originally Posted by VoodooJoint  Small animal breeder/rescuers normally don't have their rescues spayed/neutered, do not do adequate home checks and sometimes even add the rescued pigs to their breeding program. |
Hopefully that will change. I know my area's rabbit rescue has come a long way. Very few pet stores even sell rabbits now because of them.
All of these rescue rabbits are spayed before being placed in their new homes. I hope a similar change will happen with other small animals.
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I know of no small animal breeders that take these amounts of precautions to insure that unsuitable animals are not bred and few that do any kind of adequate home check.....
I have NEVER run across a small animal breeder that met all of the criteria of "responsible".
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I actually know of one rat breeder who is responsible about her rats. Actually I couldn't even call her a breeder because she has only offered one of her rats once for stud service thrus far! At any rate she took on 3 of the babies and helped find good homes for the rest. She made sure her boy was healthy and that so was his mate before breeding.
And she really spoils her rats! Each one has its own cage with tons of toys and is allowed to free time out of the cage every day. This person becomes devasted whenever one of her babies dies of old age.
Perhaps there is hope for other small animals then.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the situation with small animal rescue. I'm not as familiar with them... except for rabbit rescue. I'm sorry if my previous post was pointless then.
