futureguineamom
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2005
- Posts
- 368
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2005
- Messages
- 368
My mom and I checked out a pet store today that we frequent now and then, and it was appauling. They have about 6 guinea pigs in a pet store cage, with no hay or anything, just pine shavings. They also don't know the sex of any of them! About three of the larger ones were "pear shaped" so I figure they were either pregnant females or have ovarian cysts. There was one that I really liked and wanted to save from the horrible-ness, but they don't know if it is male or female, and tried to check but couldn't tell. (they are about 5 weeks old, apparently). So my mom and I went to the very back that they kind of have blocked off, but not really. In a 4x4 bin they had about 16 guinea pigs, some babies. Many of them had bare spots all over, and I think I saw some black dots. They have so many in there becuase they aren't sure which one is the mother, and the others have had babies too. OH MY GOSH! How can they just not know? They said the babies about 5 days old. I want to save all of them! The flies in there were nasty. So, I really want to rescue this sweetie, and mom even said she likes it too. So I would have to convince my dad, and figure out if it is male or female. I asked if anybody in the store at all knows how to sex them and they said no. :ashamed: