Kenna18155
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I'm fuming.
So as some of you know, my first piggy was given to me as a gift, bought from a pet store. I asked my brother the other day which store he bought her at, and he told me she was from The Pet Store in Chambersburg, PA. Thinking I could do a good deed, I asked to stop by next time we were in town, with the intention of letting the employees know that Scarlet was pregnant when I got her. I was hoping they could separate the animals by sex, thus preventing many unwanted pregnancies and further overpopulation.
I walked into the store and decided to check out the guinea pigs while I was there and assess their care. I noticed that they had no hay and no veggies at all. There were at least seven crammed into a small aquarium, and the only food they had was pellets, oats, and a dirty bowl of water.
I let myself cool down a bit and went up to the counter. I talked to an employee, letting her know that a pig bought from the store was pregnant. I asked if they were separated by sex, and her response was, and I quote: "Uhm, we don't separate them because we don't sex them." So NOT ONLY are they getting pigs pregnant, they are selling unsexed pigs! I calmly suggested that they could let customers know that they just might be buying a pregnant piggy. She ignored me and promptly started talking to a customer.
There was NO WAY I was going to be able to stay in the store without causing a scene, so I just left before I started screaming and/or swearing.
Is there ANYTHING I can do for these poor piggies? If it helps I can give you guys the link to their website. Maybe if they get enough complaints they'll start giving their animals better care. They sell cats, dogs, hamsters, mice, rats, gerbils, guinea pigs, birds, and reptiles, and the conditions their animals live in is appalling.
So as some of you know, my first piggy was given to me as a gift, bought from a pet store. I asked my brother the other day which store he bought her at, and he told me she was from The Pet Store in Chambersburg, PA. Thinking I could do a good deed, I asked to stop by next time we were in town, with the intention of letting the employees know that Scarlet was pregnant when I got her. I was hoping they could separate the animals by sex, thus preventing many unwanted pregnancies and further overpopulation.
I walked into the store and decided to check out the guinea pigs while I was there and assess their care. I noticed that they had no hay and no veggies at all. There were at least seven crammed into a small aquarium, and the only food they had was pellets, oats, and a dirty bowl of water.
I let myself cool down a bit and went up to the counter. I talked to an employee, letting her know that a pig bought from the store was pregnant. I asked if they were separated by sex, and her response was, and I quote: "Uhm, we don't separate them because we don't sex them." So NOT ONLY are they getting pigs pregnant, they are selling unsexed pigs! I calmly suggested that they could let customers know that they just might be buying a pregnant piggy. She ignored me and promptly started talking to a customer.
There was NO WAY I was going to be able to stay in the store without causing a scene, so I just left before I started screaming and/or swearing.
Is there ANYTHING I can do for these poor piggies? If it helps I can give you guys the link to their website. Maybe if they get enough complaints they'll start giving their animals better care. They sell cats, dogs, hamsters, mice, rats, gerbils, guinea pigs, birds, and reptiles, and the conditions their animals live in is appalling.