G-Force - what does this mean for guinea pigs?

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Are Mark, Jason, Princess, Tiny, Keyop and 7 Zark-7 in it?
 
Give them a pat on the back though for mentioning:

"Either way, wheels are for hamsters! Running on wheels and playing with giant exercise balls can injure a guinea pig’s back and feet."
 
I was in P@H the other day talking to a shop assistant, he said they has 25 baby piggies out the back ready to come out on friday to meet the demand following Gforce... There were already about 10 on the shop floor so I have no idea where they'll put them all, but its quite worrying:

a) it only takes 1 miss-sexed boy and thats a lot of pregnant baby girls
b) who is going to buy them all and will they love them forever...?

I think I'm going to offer to foster for my local rescue, as it looks like they're going to need help sooner or later! :{
 
when i went to my local pets at home the other day they were using the film to promote the guinea pigs in store and posters next to their cages! i expressed my disgust loudly much to my boyfriends embarrassment!
 
I guess it was bound to happen so we can see guineas on the big screen, same thing happened with rats, mice, dogs, and so on. But now you see a rat and mouse movie all the time. In the beginning kids wanted mice and such but it all fades and people move on. Its going to be hard, But people will get over it. Just like Easter with the millions of bunnies that kids want (drives me nuts) But at least with a movie it won't start a trend the second time around.
 
The big pet store supermarkets that use `G Force` posters to sell guinea pigs are exploiting guinea pigs. Its disgraceful. What is the RSPCA doing about this? I wrote to them but got no reply. They are like a limp lettuce on these matters.

From now on I will buy my pellets from pet shops that don`t sell animals (only food).

Anders, xx>>>
 
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I am afraid the film will cause a large no. of guins to be come throw aways.
loved because of the film them discarded
Its happened many times as mentioned,
Lassie I am showning my age but lassie was the love of my young 5 year old klife Igot one
since them there has been
dogs, rats fish etc
Even if Disney had a nmessage at the START saying a guin is for life not for a craze
venice
 
my children and i watched g force on dvd last night and really enjoyed it but there were a few worrying parts such as the little girl dressing up and painting the guinea pigs nails and putting lipstick on the guinea pig and the boy putting the guinea pig in a remote control car i can also see why it is going to get children wanting a guinea pig though
 
g force

hi I have been thinking of getting some guinea pigs for a year now and have finaly made the decision to get two girls, i have also noticed there is a film out about gp 's and i now want to see the film , so its the other way around i have not bought them because of the film , but i can see your point , unfortunately this does happen but not all people that buy them are bad owners this film could create new homes and new interests for people , there are currently thirty thousand gp in the country looking for homes , i read it somewhere, thats a lot so already there are people not keeping them which is a real shame i think breeders need to be careful about the amount they breed, i understand some are bred accidently , probrably most of them are . all i can say is if we all look after the ones we have then we are doing the best we can for our own animals , i also have a horse that i have owned for 9 years and rather than donate to horse charitys i make sure i do the best for my mare , thats one less on the market looking for a home , xxxxx:)
 
I know of two GP's that have been rescued because of the film and are living in a palace of a three storey hutch. That said, they've borrowed an indoor cage from me for the next few nights "just in case" it's too cold. The amount of hay in the hutch with the size if it I reckon I could be warm in there let alone her Piggies.. :))
 
Many small kids will be like "Cool!I wanna a guinea pig!" or "I have got to get one,NOW!"

The problem is that they might have not done research when the buy the guinea pig,so many abandoned guinea pigs will go into the shelter therefore,increasing the number of many innocent pets to be killed for more space.

Plus,not all the little kids know that the guinea pigs were computer generated.
The guinea pigs were using balls,which are not good for the guinea pig's back.
 
I know many kids would be after a guinea pig after this film, then bored of it when they don't do the things the pigs in the film do.

However, I have to say, I LOVED the film :) its so adorable, and my sister loved it too.
 
There is a wonderful one liner in ti that really applies to my pigs

"We may be guinea pigs but, we are not ordinary we are special"
 
Pancake and G-Force

We found Pancake abandoned shortly after G-Force had released in the Comcast On-demand. Finally watched the movie myself after rescuing her. Someone mentioned that the dressing up of the female GP worried her. I noticed on-line in the first days of being a Pancake slave that there where sites that sell clothes for them. That disturbs me more than people who dress up their dogs and cats. Have you seen the GP in "Bedtime Stories"? The number of GP's rescued in my area has gotten so bad that the local rescue has them listed as "Guinea Pigs Various". Meaning the numbers are too large for individual postings. As much work as they are I may go to a rescue further south of me if I don't think this one is doing enough investigating. I fully expect when we go to the rescue for Pancakes friend that they will be in my home being nosy and checking out my C&C as well as Pancakes diet. We want to have built the base by then and have built the C&C into a dual level.
 
I haven't seen the film but I do understand what you mean. I'm sure there would have been quite a few 10 year olds who would have watched it and gone and bugged their parents to buy them a guinea pig that would have been then roughly handled, housed in a tiny cage and forgotten.
Not sure if it was an add for the sequel or the actual G force movie, but I saw an add that showed an excerpt where a little girl has two guinea pigs and is holding them the wrong way and they are dressed in dolls clothes...ughhhh. Just think of the message it's sending out to kids...makes me sad and sick at the same time...
 
Thats why i have guinea pigs but i was carefull with mine i do like this movie and my guinea pigs are named after them but people do need to be sensilbe when buying pets because there just like us but furry unles you have a hairless one!
 
I haven't seen the film (and don't really want to) but I saw the ad where a guinea pig was eating pepperoni pizza? That's just wrong! And kids mightn't know that that's the kinda thing you really shouldn't feed a guinea pig (or any pet!).
 
Well i must say, and although it does make me seem like a child. I watched G-Force, and after i wanted a guinea pig, in my eyes (before i watched the film) they were boring oversized hamsters that didnt do anything, after watching the film it made me see them in a different light. and no not because they spoke and acted like agents because i am not a child. but to me they made an animal really intesresting for me, and my love for guinea pigs is now huge, i love my 2 guinea's J.D & Turk, they are lovely, although not had them very long I'm trying my hardest with them
 
So True

This is so ture as you have said about the 101 dog film. It was the same with me as I wanted a puppy and I wanted that breed. I was younger then but still all the same, this will probly happen! I didnt get a puppy of corse and what I now think is compleatly the right thing. This could of been me. Also, the film I say was good, but sending out the wrong message to children as I did see a talking mole and it turned out to take over the world. Ok, zzz we have seen it before. Also, as my last comment on the film itself, I thing as a hole (or a mole. Ok that joke was bad) children will get an animal what they cant look after and will fail to keep up with the standerds neededfor a healthy guinea piggy. Over and Out- LittleGuinea x
 
I haven't seen the film but I bought my two piggies. When I went to the vet, she had asked me if I had seen it and she was talking all happily about it.
I'm going to watch it one day when I remember.

I think the breeders might take advantage, but at the same time, it might mean there would be some new guinea pig owners who find they love and adore the new little cuties and add to the group of us who already adore them =)
 
My brother has bought this dvd from tescos at £5 for my daughter and my niece for xmas and he's gonna put some other guinea pig stuff with them too.
I think it's up to the parents of these children to be responsible, my daughter watched 101 dalmations when she was about 5 and all I ever heard was 'I want a dalmation I want a dalmation' same thing with Nemo.
I just explained to her that just because it's on a dvd doesn't mean that you can have it in real life.
My girls had wanted guinea pigs for over a year but I made them wait to make sure that they really really wanted them before I bought some in June, even though I desperately wanted them too, I had to be sure that they'd share some responsibility.
 
I don't think they should ban using animals in films :) But thats my personall view, its upto the parent, whos the adult to be responsible and say no. I enjoyed the film, and thought it was great fun :)
 
I haven't watched it yet so I'll wait and watch it with my little girl probably boxing day afternoon with a tin of choccys.
Everyone says how good it is so hopefully it'll be worth the wait.
 
Awww that sounds like a brilliant idea the film is fab esp if your a piggie fan, it's nearly christmas - eik! >.< hope you have everything wrappd up, ive just started mine today!
 
I've been finished ages ago (I'm way too organised for my own good) there's only a few things that I haven't wrapped yet but I can't wait till xmas cos I've had some free argos vouchers & I've had to wait ages for it to come in stock but I've bought my 7yr old a digital cam corder on offer at £45 (half price) she loves to take photos and already has a really good digital camera what my mum gave her 2 yrs ago (her old one) and she's had a play with my cam corder so I thought why not, it's her main prezzie along with an electric scooter.
The oldest has had a smart phone but then 13 year olds aren't that interested in anything else lol.
So from Janurary they'll be loads of piggy videos lol
 
Well Racing Stripes came out a few years ago, and you didn't see loads of people start trying to race zebras.

Can't blame Disney if people lack common sense really, can you? Like guinea wiggles says, her kids saw 101 Dalmations and wanted dalmations but as a responsible parent she didn't go out and buy a puppy, she said this word quite a lot of parents seem unfamiliar with these days, it's NO.

I personally love the film and like working out which of my guineas is most like the characters :))
 
i saw it on dvd, and it was horrible, the guineas were way too humanised and the idea of mixing sows, boars AND hamsters made me so angry
 
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