cavy-cool-crazy
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Cavy Slave
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This is so disgusting..I was shocked and sickened when I heard about it. There's a place not far from here where people can go and look at loads of animals, and of course, there are guinea pigs there. Maybe 40 or so, probably males mixed in with females. People can walk into this place, and just take guinea pigs (and rabbits, too) with no charge and no questions asked. And people breed the animals so that the young can be given to reptiles. I couldn't believe it...how can people do that to any animal?
Also, there's another place just down the road from where I live that comprises mostly of birds, but there's a farm part of it where people can see all sorts of animals, mostly cows, horses and goats. And there's a sign: 'Guinea pigs for sale'. So of course, I looked at where they were being kept. They were in a stable (like the ones associated with horses) - about 20 or 30 of them. You could tell which ones were female; not only were a lot of them pregnant, but the females had little patches of some kind of blue dye. It didn't look like any of them had been groomed before.They had a tiny amount of hay (for the amount of piggies in there), and they had a couple of big dog kennel type hidey houses. And a filthy, rusty dish of water.
To top off my rant, the same place with the 20-30 guineas had about 10 more piggies in a run outside, with your average sized cat carrier, and all of them were piled in there, terrified of the little kids running round a screaming. I had to leave after they put bunnies and guineas together on a high, open-ended table for the public just to come along and handle them. Even my dad, who has never showed that much interest in piggies, was disgusted and had a good old rant on the way round.
I can tell you, both of these places will be getting angry letters from me.
Also, there's another place just down the road from where I live that comprises mostly of birds, but there's a farm part of it where people can see all sorts of animals, mostly cows, horses and goats. And there's a sign: 'Guinea pigs for sale'. So of course, I looked at where they were being kept. They were in a stable (like the ones associated with horses) - about 20 or 30 of them. You could tell which ones were female; not only were a lot of them pregnant, but the females had little patches of some kind of blue dye. It didn't look like any of them had been groomed before.They had a tiny amount of hay (for the amount of piggies in there), and they had a couple of big dog kennel type hidey houses. And a filthy, rusty dish of water.
To top off my rant, the same place with the 20-30 guineas had about 10 more piggies in a run outside, with your average sized cat carrier, and all of them were piled in there, terrified of the little kids running round a screaming. I had to leave after they put bunnies and guineas together on a high, open-ended table for the public just to come along and handle them. Even my dad, who has never showed that much interest in piggies, was disgusted and had a good old rant on the way round.
I can tell you, both of these places will be getting angry letters from me.