Bumped into a breeder today in a pet shop...

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I popped into the pet shop that was next to the vets today to get some readigrass and took the boys in with me in their carrier, at the checkout a man started to admire my boys and said that they were very handsome and told me he used to be a breeder and sold the baby pigs to a local market.
He said to me 'Are they both boys?' i replied 'Yes' he then said 'Dont they fight?' and i said 'No, they have been together for 2 years and they arent brothers they are rescue pigs.' He was VERY surprised that two males got on so well. mallethead I wish that breeders would do more research on guinea pigs, it made me quite mad! Silly man and he was telling me that they were aby guinea pigs! I think not they are long haired cornets! :{ I could have talked to him for hours about that males can get on!

Just had to share that and rant a little.
 
I know it drove me mad, i suppose they just do it for the money really which is so sad. :(

I just had to rant about it. I know that we are all against it and we arent allowed to discuss it, but ive never met a breeder before and it shocked me one how little knowledge he had on piggys, so sad. :(
 
I do know its all for money so as long as the piggys give them babys to sell they dont worry about anything else. :)>>>
 
What an idiot . . . maybe he was just a guy who had guinea pigs and bred a few together . . . you'd think he'd know they were longhaired at least! And the way some people will tell you things about your pets and act like they know more than you mallethead

I dunno, I guess people do it for money, but how do they make money? Guinea pigs cost money to look after and don't have a lot of babies . . . I guess by never cleaning out their guinea pigs and giving them the cheapest food they can, and overbreeding them and not taking them to the vets and having huge numbers of them . . . :)>>>

I can understand how you'd make money from selling expensive dogs/cats, though it'd be a lot of hard work . . . but don't understand how people can make money from animals like guinea pigs and rabbits . . .
 
I don't think they sell them for very much... I mean, the snake food pigs I bought were two quid each and there can't be much profit in a business like that.
 
its probably a good thing h never put males together he probably wouldnt of had enough knowlage to notice if they dint get on and who knows what *** of happend.
 
skrikopanik said:
I don't think they sell them for very much... I mean, the snake food pigs I bought were two quid each and there can't be much profit in a business like that.
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Exactly. And if a pet shop sells them for £20, the breeder would have to sell them for £10 each at most I'd say . . . they'd need hundreds of piggies (and to spend very very little on them) to make money. They'd have to be a very very bad breeder . . . and then still I can't imagine them making a lot.
 
I too have wondered how they could make money from it. Even if they did buy the cheapest food I don't see how it is possible to make any money at £10 per pig.

I visited a breeder when looking for a companion for my boar (who turned out to be a sow). I came away without a piggy. He gave me the creeps and I would not buy from him. I can't see that he could make money yet he clearly didn't seem attached to the piggies either and I wondered what he got out of it. He kept going on about how he had imported his stock initially from somewhere in Europe like I should be impressed.
 
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