tehdoc809
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2008
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- Joined
- Dec 30, 2008
- Messages
- 395
So my wife and I are a sucker for any kind of animal, and the rescues in our area only carry dogs and cats, the only close Guinea pig rescue is in Atlanta (2hrs away). Not the point, anyway, Heres the story.
So we like to stop and look at the pets at a local petstore called PetLand because they actually house, atleast their guinea pigs, in a proper size, ventilated, cage. It looks atleast as big as a 3x3 CC cage. You can reach over and handle the pets, according to the sign "if you can." So we are playing with the piggies and I noticed that they had a female housed with two males and they all looked like they were atleast a month old, maybe a little older/younger. On top of that, her eyes were a little cloudy and she didn't try to run from me when I picked her up until I touched her. And since, physically she looked fine, nothing around her eyes, nose plus ears and mouth looked fine. I thought she might be a little blind since she didn't run in terror like the other two. So we brought this to the attention of one of the employees, who said three very, very wrong things in response:
1 "We got them a week ago and they are just a month old, so they can't get pregnant yet."
2 "Plus thats better for us because if they do get pregnant we can just sell them and not have to order more, like our hampsters." (manager denied this when asked, but I suspect he was lying to me)
3 "Well, I'll just take her to the back so she can get some treatment" (I'm so glad you can cure blindness )
I know that, in the back for treatment is usually petshop code for "Be put down" and I wasn't about to let that happen. I also picked up one of the males who had "Yellow" on his face and explained why it was significant, then explained that we might be interested in her even though she is possibly blind and pregnant, as opposed to us not getting her and her getting put down. Then we exchanged what I like to call, the "Look." So she went to the manager and in the end after much disscussion on the legality of a petstore breeding and selling their own pets without the proper permits, which it turns out the technically had (in the state of GA anyway), We got her for free with the purchase of the only thing we needed which was a 6 dollar waterbottle.
So we brought her home, gave her some bermuda hay, already order some alfalfa, gave her some veggies which haven't even been glanced at, pellets, water. Vet visit is next tuesday.
And, Introducing our new Baby Quinn:
https://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pb160048.jpg
So we like to stop and look at the pets at a local petstore called PetLand because they actually house, atleast their guinea pigs, in a proper size, ventilated, cage. It looks atleast as big as a 3x3 CC cage. You can reach over and handle the pets, according to the sign "if you can." So we are playing with the piggies and I noticed that they had a female housed with two males and they all looked like they were atleast a month old, maybe a little older/younger. On top of that, her eyes were a little cloudy and she didn't try to run from me when I picked her up until I touched her. And since, physically she looked fine, nothing around her eyes, nose plus ears and mouth looked fine. I thought she might be a little blind since she didn't run in terror like the other two. So we brought this to the attention of one of the employees, who said three very, very wrong things in response:
1 "We got them a week ago and they are just a month old, so they can't get pregnant yet."
2 "Plus thats better for us because if they do get pregnant we can just sell them and not have to order more, like our hampsters." (manager denied this when asked, but I suspect he was lying to me)
3 "Well, I'll just take her to the back so she can get some treatment" (I'm so glad you can cure blindness )
I know that, in the back for treatment is usually petshop code for "Be put down" and I wasn't about to let that happen. I also picked up one of the males who had "Yellow" on his face and explained why it was significant, then explained that we might be interested in her even though she is possibly blind and pregnant, as opposed to us not getting her and her getting put down. Then we exchanged what I like to call, the "Look." So she went to the manager and in the end after much disscussion on the legality of a petstore breeding and selling their own pets without the proper permits, which it turns out the technically had (in the state of GA anyway), We got her for free with the purchase of the only thing we needed which was a 6 dollar waterbottle.
So we brought her home, gave her some bermuda hay, already order some alfalfa, gave her some veggies which haven't even been glanced at, pellets, water. Vet visit is next tuesday.
And, Introducing our new Baby Quinn:
https://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pb160048.jpg