For all of those CavySpirit and guineapigcages.com bashers...

[aNiMaLsAmArItAn]

People can be very ignorant about our views on pet stores and breeders sometimes, so I just wanted to clear a few things up. We would not be against pet stores and breeders if they used humane and kind tactics to produce and sell animals! But hold on for a minute...who cares about guinea pigs, rabbits, rats, and other domestic pets anyway? you might be thinking. Well then you need a reality check! WE ARE ANIMALS TOO. We belong to the animal kingdom! What if we were in the pets' place? What if we were abused and neglected by some "higher being?" You CavySpirit and GPC.com haters would have something different to say then, I believe (correct me if I am wrong, please, because I am an animal lover!) And another thing, we do not shove our opinions down peoples' throats, we simply try to educate them about the horrors of animal abuse and cruelty. It is of course the individual's decision, but we are here to inform. And I do not believe that guinea pigs are going to be extinct anytime soon, given the millions, maybe BILLIONS of them in shelters, rescues, and other places all across the globe. We really do not need more guinea pigs right now, or other animals, for that matter. THAT is why we don't support pet stores and breeders, along with their [sometimes] unkind treatment of animals. We are also not against all pet stores and breeders, mainly the ones that deliver sick and maltreated animals. But still, l am personally against breeders because we really don't need anymore animals to be bred.
Not all of us here feel exactly the way I do, so it is very condescending and rude when people set stereotypes, so please don't!
~AnImaLsAMarItAN

[VoodooJoint]

Originally Posted by aNiMaLsAmArItAn

We would not be against pet stores and breeders if they used humane and kind tactics to produce and sell animals!

I have to disagree. There are much larger issues then poor breeding and husbandry.

Considering the overpopulation problem and the fact that several million animals are euthanized, neglected and abandoned each year I personally don't care if a breeder and petstore has Utopian standards, they are still adding to the overpopulation problem, causing animals to die and the petstores are selling to anyone with money to buy. Simply being able to afford to buy an animal does not mean it is a good home.

[aNiMaLsAmArItAn]

I also agree. I should have made my other reason for not supporting pet stores and breeders clearer: overpopulation. I am against them for their contributing to the domestic animal overpopulation problem and for their often cruel and unjust treatment of animals.

[Ly&Pigs]

When people go into their local petstores that do sell animals, they are only seeing what is in front of them. Some stores may take better care of their animals than other stores do but that's only a portion of the problem and they aren't seeing the bigger picture behind what is in front of their eyes. It doesn't matter how well the store takes care of the animals.

A good part of the problem is behind the scenes. The sick animals in the backrooms just left to die with no treatment, the breeders and mills these animals are coming from and the horrible way they are transported to the stores.

[aNiMaLsAmArItAn]

Has anyone else noticed this? It has just come to my attention.
PetSmart | Press Room | The Facts
This makes everything so confusing! Are they lying or just not telling the whole truth???

[aNiMaLsAmArItAn]

This is rediculous! I just got off the phone with the general manager of a PetsMart near where I live and when I asked for the other sources of their animals besides Rainbow Exotics of Texas and he said that I must be a PETA activist and hung up! That's not good business managing! Sorry I waited twenty minutes for someone to talk to me live and when the guy hung up, I got so mad!

[Res Judicata]

They know when you say something like that that you're not going to buy anything. I don't find it worth it to bother complaining to such people. It's like trying to move a graveyard. I let my views be known with my feet and shop elsewhere.