Hi everyone. This is going to be long...
I agree that I should have worded my original post better to reflect what I said in my second post about the nutritional information. Furthermore, I wish I would have looked more closely at the site I posted a link to and I wish I had never even posted it.
Unfortunately, I was not aware that it was a site promoting breeding. I found it from doing a Google search under "stages of guinea pig pregnancy" as I've begun to feel the babies teeth grinding in the mommies' bellies and I wonder how soon it will be until they are born and I really want to be there for the birth to help if need be. In any case, the minute I found that page, I saw that it said that something about guinea pigs being under 6 months old rarely making it through deliveries (something to that affect) and I became very scared at the thought of losing my pigs. I noted the nutritional advice the site recommended and I knew that Ly and others on this site (who had given me good nutritional information in the past) would have some really good, clear guidance regarding the site.
Unfortunately, the minute I read that page, the baby monitor started making noise...my 16 month old daughter was up, and that meant my computer time was over. I thought, "Hey, maybe the people on guinea pig cages will help ease my fears of losing my newly adopted sows to pregnancy". So, in my haste to get my daughter from her crib and calm my fears for my pigs, I posted the link completely ignorant to anything else on the site since I had not read it very well at all and I made a quick, brief post without clarifying stuff that should have been clarified.
I share the convictions of many on this board: anti-pet store, very anti-breeding, which is why I have spent so much time on here and why I chose to donate money to the shelter. I guess I assumed people knew that about me by now, an assumption I will not make again. Thank you, Paula, for what you wrote. I would not have said anything because I am so uncomfortable with conflict. I really appreciate you.
Sorry for this post being so long. I just felt like I wanted to open up to all of you with more of who I was and why I posted this.
Anyway, I really am sorry to everyone for starting this thread and I feel really bad about what happened.