:sad: I thought this was a friendly, helpful site, but I'm feeling slightly attacked now. Especially by one particular member. I admitted my mistake and am here looking for solutions, not to have my nose rubbed in it and made to feel worse than I already do. I don't live in America and when I was looking for a friend for Ninja, I couldn't find an available piggy within a 30 mile radius, or rather kilometer as we say here. I've never heard of guinea pig rescue shelters. I had to wait weeks for the next guinea pig breeders show, so that I could buy a Ninja friend from there. I am learning along with the rest of you and until finding this site, I was considering breeding, seeing as I had such a hard time finding a guinea pig when I wanted one. But now I have learned more. But it doesn't change the fact that I have what I have and I'm trying to deal with it in a responsible and caring way. Hindsight is 20/20. Bagel was already pregnant when I got her. She was part of a breeders extra pedigree stock he was trying to sell before handing all his pigs over to another breeder. She was going to have babies whether I bought her or not, it didn't seem a problem until I found this site. It never occurred to me that I would have problems finding homes for babies because at the show, people were handing over their $30 per piggy like as if there was about to be a national ban on them or something. Of course I have separated my boys I'm neither stupid or cruel, everyone is now safe, but I'm looking for a more permanent solution where everyone can be happy and healthy. I phoned my local vet for advise and was told that neutering one of the males would cause him to back down from a fight and accept a submissive role, but that it would take about a month. I have several cages, two of which can be divided. My pigs have a large enclose patio where they have plenty of room to run around as much as they want, all day generally, but at the moment I have the girls in the house in order to try and calm the hostilities between the now separated boys.