Education is the key to just about everything in life. The more educated a person is, the better off they are. We here at cavy cages are very passionate about our pigs and our other pets. I am going to educate you and any one who reads this thread a little bit.
Every time a pig is "bought" in a pet store, at least 2 or more are bought through pig mills, backyard breeders or other breeders or bred by the petstore to replace the 1 that is bought.
Every time a pig is "bought" in a pet store, it leaves other pigs in shelters and rescues and doesn't open up more space for more unwanted pigs.
Pet stores mis-sex pigs all the time, most pet stores don't even know how to tell a male from a female and dump the whole shipment of pigs they just received in tiny little plastic containers into small cramped cages without sexing. Males get with the females and unsuspecting buyers come in and buy a pig being told it's male and it turns out to be female and pregnant.
Because of the cramped conditions of most pet shop cages, pigs often are ill with Upper Respiratory Infections, mites, lice, fungal infections and who knows what else because the owners of the pet stores only care about the money they make off the pigs and don't care if they are selling healthy pigs.
Not every pig in a shelter or rescue is sick. Many are just unwanted, abandoned pigs that some jerk decided they didn't have time for anymore. Many are baby pigs because they unknowingly bought a pregnant female that had pups and they don't want to keep them.
You have to understand this, the members that have been here for awhile are very, very passionate about the lives of their pigs and we are anti-petshop (the ones that sell animals), pro-adoption, anti-breeding and anti-breeder. Some posts may come across as rude but the intentions behind the rudeness are well meaning.
