My local pet store is a family run one and after hearing av
out the petcos and pet shops like that I'm amazed what I hear, the pet shop hear has adequate sized cages for the pets housed there. they have information leaflets beside every pet they have, sometimes if you go in the manager will be at his desk with a guinea pig or rabbit on his knee asleep. over all the food they feed them the hay and the general well being if the animals is quite close to how it should be.
They also don't get their animals from breeding mills, they take let's in from people who's pigs have surprise baby's like my surprise a few months ago, they share the burden with the rescue down the road apparently and also give the rescue food and supplies. They also take in
unwanted piggies and act like a rescue making sure you have the just if the care and the correct cage (they have good sized 7square foot cages) and they run you through everything with you
, then they keep the pigs you are rescuing and put them in a separate cage and bring them to your house for you and they make sure the pig is going I to good hands, this is how I got one of my pigs (first one please don't judge )
I would never get my pigs there anymore but they seem better then any pet store I've heard about here and I guess I'm just lucky ( they have all the food and hay I need there)
they don't have sales and they insist on the person taking the pigs home getting two. They are more like a rescue, I have spoken to the manager about him getting in dust free hay in for me and he is very nice and we got into a long conversation about guinea pig care and he showed me pictures of this cage at home for his pigs and it is HUGE maybe 8x3 for three pigs with a loft all made out of wood with plexi glass, and I showed him my cage plan for my new cage (coming in October) and we had a lovely long chat. His shop is like a rescue and I get all my food and hay and toys there.