Im glad you got a response. I have no idea why anyone would imagine that you wouldn't. Animal-World.com is obviously a pet lovers site owned by pet lovers. Any mis-information would be handled immediately.
Im glad you decided to lighten up in leiu of some of the comments I've heard on this thread.
I've given a comment that gives a link to cavy cages, but they're editing and proofing every comment before publication. I'd be happy to wager a bet that it will NEVER be published!
Pages that are published on the site itself (user comments) are heavily edited. Can you imagine what you would be publishing if they weren't? Forums are open to anyone, but not the site itself. It is stated on the "Add your Comment" page that emails and urls will not be published. This is for privacy reasons.
I am sorry for posting so many of these idiots comments who are actually getting information from this crap site, but i just can't control myself.
Calling people, who are well intentioned and expressing their love for the pets, "idiots" is just cruel. I can only hope the little girl(s) that wrote the quoted comments don't come here and find your comment. (A comment like this would not be posted anywhere at Animal-World).
I submitted a "comment" telling them that they need to correct their information... I tried to make it sound as nice as possible; hopefully by being courteous they may listen! Doubtful, but I figured it was worth a shot.
Being courteous is the respect we give everyone in our daily lives. The staff at Animal-World looks at every comment seriously and updates the site accordingly. It's obvious they have put alot of time and effort into a quality pet site. No doubt. Check the comment page, its probably there right now.
Guinea Gal. I know you mean well but please stop copying the comments, or any other part, of a webpage and directly posting it on the board. Websites are protected by copyright laws and there could potentially be problems.
Animal-World is known for giving everything away. Any picture or information owned by them is free to anyone who asks, as well as those who don't.
Wow, that's quite a lot of bad information. You'd think that someone with internet access & the ability to put a site together would be able to do research about basic care. I wonder what their sources are?
Every word at Animal-World is researched. A list of references can be found here:
https://animal-world.com/encyclo/information/references.htm
If you read the first line on that page it says that "Guinea pigs make great pets, especially as first pets for children, because they very rarely bite even if handled roughly." is this to encourage people to get them for their kids, because they wont bite and the kids can be rough with them then?
If you have ever worked in the pet industry you would know that the first thing a customer asks is "Do they bite?". It is one of the qualities of guinea pigs that their temperment is such that they rarely do, as opposed to hamsters or rats. Most people with children, for instance, want their childs' first experience with a pet to be a joyful, loving one, not a painful one. To construe the above sentence to mean that its "okay" to handle them roughly is rather sinister but in lieu of the "lets imagine the worst scenario" attitude, rest assured that sentence will be changed.
They did get the liquid Vit C in the water correct, they said don't do that so they aren't complete idiots, just 99%.
Great stuff! Its really helpful to call people 99% idiots, at least you gave them that 1%!
The information on the site has already been changed and links will be put up to your favorites, guinealynx and cavycages.
Anyway.. thanks for all the information and pointing out the problems at Animal-World, hopefully with that 1% "non-idiot" part, they can get it updated.
Cheers!
