[Percy's Mom]

Originally Posted by sophistacavy

Banfield is PetSmart's instore vet clinic, and they are real vets, so you can trust them.

They might be real vets, but they have a horrible reputation. It's entirely possible that the vets there know nothing about guinea pigs.

I know adopting any animal is important, but is the big deal about not buying pigs from PetSmart the fact that you would be supporting the cavy mills? Or is is that they're sick? Because if they're sick, thats probably because of the mills anyway.

The big deal about buying an animal from any petstore is that there is a huge overpopulation in shelters, rescues, and rehoming situation, and buying instead of adopting supports breeders and pet mills and adds to this overpopulation. Buying also means that it is highly likely that animals in the shelters will end up being put to sleep more often because there are not enough homes for the ones that need to be adopted.

Would it be inappropraite if I told people who were looking at the cavies there to adopt one instead,

If you give out the information constructively, it would be entirely appropriate.