[Marlania]

At least you tried to inform that woman in the store. I guess we just have to hope for the best in this situation, since she refused to let you share your guinea pig wisdom. I've had my fair share of petstore experiences, including one that involved one of my own pigs.

I took Permanent from a local pet store because of the situation she was in. Permanent is blind in her left eye and does not see very well out of her right eye. She has always gotten around fine, however, and since she's been with Temporary for well over a year now, you'd never know she was blind. Anyway, I went into that store one day for hay, and like you, Baby Bears, I passed by the guinea pigs to check them out. That's when I noticed Permanent's eye. So I asked the clerk about her, and she just said that she was blind and was going back today. Of course, I wanted to know where she was going back to, and I got no response. So I kept asking because my original thought was that she was going to be euthanized, and I wasn't going to let that happen. Instead, the clerk finally told me that she was going back to the "supplier" and would be used as a breeder. Now, Permanent was very young at this point, and blind on top of that, so I couldn't let that happen. So I scooped up the pig and went home with her. I'm certain that if I'd have left her there, she wouldn't be around today or there would be oodles of her offspring in miserable homes, and while it wasn't my intention to buy from a petstore, I did what was best for Permanent in this situation.