Ugh..why? (on irresponsible owners)

This person I used to go to school with, I guess you could call her a friend, decided to get guinea pigs. Well actually her mother decided to get a guinea pig for her sons (8, and...6?).

The first time she told me about the guinea pig, I asked her where she got it (she knew I was involved in rescue). She got it from Pet Supplies Plus. I then began asking her if it was a boar or a sow. She told me the pet store said it was a boar. I sent her the link to cavy spirit's sexing page and told her to take a look and if she needed help she could call me and I would gladly come sex the pig. She was certain it was a male. Ok.

She then calls me about 2 months later that she got another one (from the pet store)! Ok... she's pretty sure it's a boy too, it looks just like the other one. So I tell her I want to come over and see them.

Turns out, the "boys" are both girls, and the one that's very fat is very pregnant! She is keeping them in a standard pet store cage. No hay, giving them vitamin drops, seed mixes. They ask me to build them a cage and gave me $20, so I made a 2x3 C&C cage for the two sows, and 4 days later she gives birth to two pups, both boars.

The mother sow was nipping at the other sow, so they separated them (put the one back into the standard cage).

A week later (this week), the 6 year old boy wanted a guinea pig too! They are keeping the two pups, but he wants his own. So again, instead of calling me (I have 2 sows for adoption) they go to Petsmart because they are vet checked! They end up buying a boar.

I went there today to make sure the boar was for sure a boar it was, but they put him in with the other sow! ugh... why? They didn't want babies to begin with. How could they be so irresponsible? There excuse was "well, we really didn't have a choice, we didn't have any other place to put him."

I separated them today while I was there. She was probably already pregnant from the pet store, but if she wasn't, she surely is now. I put the sow in with the other sow and her pups, there was a little dominance but they're fine.

Then we go over to her aunts or family friend or something; who also has a guinea pig. She got another one and they were "humping" and she wanted me to make sure they were both boars. They were, but... she had them in a "below standard" cage. This cage.


She had 2 boars, a pigloo, and food dish (no hay, no veggies; pet store said no), they had no room to even turn around! They cage is 12"x24". So she gave me money to build them a cage.

To make matters worse, she is a type of hoarder (I guess, she gets rid of animals, but gets more). She has 3 dogs, 9 cats, all intact. She has one dog, an Australian Shepherd about 9 months old that she is taking to the pound because he is too big and hyper, yet, knowing this, she went out and bought a 12 week old Saint Bernard/Lab mix. She allows the cats to use her flower pots as litter boxes and doesn't even care. However, I doubt there is anything that can be done, as they all appeared healthy.

So tomorrow my friend might come over and we are going to have a cage building party and I am going to print out tons of info for them reguarding care and hopefully open their eyes on rescuing.

This was sort of a vent, I guess. I had to get it out.

P.S. I'm not sure if I posted this in the right forum, if not, please move it!