LucidCavies
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Jul 5, 2014
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- Joined
- Jul 5, 2014
- Messages
- 281
I got my current guinea pig from a local feed store that kept them in a huge cage and gave them veggies and cleaned out their cages everyday (this i witnessed with my own eyes. but when I was first looking into getting a pig I decided to adopt. I'm contemplating on weather putting the name of the rescue or not... But anyway i live in Los Angeles, California.. and the closest rescue to me was like 10 miles away. So I scheduled an appointment for the upcoming weekend and my mom who wasn't all to happy about getting a ''Rodent" was actually getting pretty excited to. The owner of the rescue and I talked back and forth for quite a while about what I should bring and how excited I was and so on and so forth. When the weekend finally came I was so excited that we decided to bring my GRANDMA along with us who hates small animals but was so happy fr me because I was happy about the pig. So we drove down there and pulled in and talked to the lady, she explained that I HAD to buy two guinea pigs (which I understand) that I HAD to have a c&c cage, nothing else, and continued to give me a VERY strict lecture on all that I HAD to do. Now at the time I was told that it was only PREFERRED to have two Piggie, she never told me that I needed two via email. She told me a mid-western, i think that what they are called, would be fine for a single Piggie and if i wanted to expand It i would need t look farther into a c&c cage. when I gt there EVERYTHING she said changed and then my mom brought up that she thought my brother was allergic to hay (Dustin hay mom. not timothy) so with tears in my eyes I looked at my mom and she looked at the rescue owner. The rescue owner looked me strait int the eyes and said "Well I guess you just cant have a guinea pig, now can you?" with her right eyebrow raised. Before I could say anything to this brat she turned around and walked away. I went to the car , I am a teenager by the way, and I honestly don't cry, like ever. And I just started bawling. It wasn't necessarily because I couldn't get a Piggie or two. I was because this whole situation could have been avoided if she had just been upfront with me. This put a bad taste in my mouth and I ended up getting the biggest pet store cage I could find which was the equivalent to a 1 and a half by three and picked my pig up from my local feed and tack store that really cared about these pigs. The even NICELY explained that he wold do best with another pig and explained to me how to make a c&c cage. He pointed out all of the BEST brands to use for food, hay and toys. He told me that yogurt drops and colored treats were not good because they contained much sugar. He gave me the WHOLE run down of everything and told me to bring Asher back in in a few months so he could see how big he got. I have never been so happy. When Asher turned 10 months I started gathering supplies to make a c&c cage. I finished it last night and it is a 3x4 and he loves it. Now I want to get hi a cage mate. I know adopting is the right thing to do but I had such a BAD experience I just don't want to go back! My mom vowed that we would NEVER go back there because she never wants to see me that upset again. And no there aren't any ore even semi-close rescues around me.... any help?
