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linda.b said:
You may not, but if you then go and rescue the pig they sold to the pet shop, they still got their money did'nt they,even if it was'nt from you, but the piggy had to suffer months of neglect before it got to you through the circle.
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now that's a thought, what goes around come around ..........

I bought Fudge from a petshop and I'm glad I did, he was on his own and sooo cute although it is a 'good' petshop who only have a couple of animals in at a time from local breeders, as opposed to the mass produced P@H pigs and buns. He then inspired me to rescue more so he's helped save some too.
 
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Mary said:
Dose anyone know what happens to gps that end up in pet shops for a long time. If they cant sell them and they get too big? I work at a vets but havent seen any come our way that need treatment.

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From what I have seen they either sell them off cheap...or they give away them free to the proverbial good home ::)
But who really knows...

Barbara

I have actually been given a few older pigs from pet shops and garden centers that have not sold or like my darling new rex charlie he was the owneres own pig but the RSPCA told him to stop breeding his own pigs to sell, sounds a wierd one to me but charlie is 18 months old and one handsome chappie must get photos soon,
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I have to say I agree with Linda on this one. How many of the rescue pigs are originally from a pet shop anyway? So, apart from the neglect it must have gone through before coming to you, the breeder still made his money.

Don't know about everyone else's PAH but mine sells one for £20 but two for £30, in one way a good idea I thought as it makes sure they have company and they do tell you not to have a boy and a girl together unless you're wanting to breed and if you do want to breed not to do so until the girl is at least 12 weeks old. So they're being semi responsible. Also, in ours, the rabbits and gps are together but the rabbits are very small, I've only seen one large rabbit in there and he was kept away from the others and a sign said that he had to be on his own. And the gp's go FAST in our PAH, I had my eye on one for my OH and went in to get him and he wasn't there anymore so I ended up with my Flo.

So a lot of pet shops aren't irresponsible at all....I'm afraid that I will not stop buying from them - though I will rescue as well if possible.
 
I agree with you Jenni, If I see one in a pet shop that creeps into my heart then I'll have to take him home! We can't save them all but we do what we can!
 
At least ours don't end up in rescue or dumped hey!

Anyway, to rescue all the animals that need rescuing you'd need somewhere the size of Buckinham palace....or bigger :)
 
Thats right! Once they come home with me thats it! I even have them cremated and plan for us all to go together! I got a few little boxes now including my beloved dog in pride of place! Boy will my coffin heavy!!
 
Really? Well, I hope you have body builders for that day! I bury mine in the garden, they even have their own section for pet cemetary and I make them all crosses!
 
I'd be gutted if bodybuilders turned up for my funeral and I didnt get to see them! I live in rented accom so I'd be scared to leave them behind. I have buried the birdies in my garden but couldn't bear to put piggies in. I woudl if I owned it though I 'd like to have a little cemetary! My Auntie used to belong to British Legion and she got me those little wooden crosses for my graves at my Mums house when I was a kid.

I'm really bad a lettin go - my house is like a shrine to past pets with piccies etc!
 
Hehe, good point, well you'd be looking down on them and could have a good ogle from the spirit world!

I know what you mean, I end up with a picture shrine to my pets when they go on to their big field/sea/jungle in the sky. I just miss them so much, each has such a different personality......I think some people think I'm a bit mad, especially when I cried for two days over my lizard dying....
 
I had to have the next day off when my Tweet died this year, I sat up half the night waiting for him to go couldn't bear to face work next day I was distraught (had him for 6 years) I had a little funeral for him in my garden and I was sobbing so much nearly cut my foot with spade lol!
 
linda.b said:
You may not, but if you then go and rescue the pig they sold to the pet shop, they still got their money did'nt they,even if it was'nt from you, but the piggy had to suffer months of neglect before it got to you through the circle.
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I am pro rescue, but I do think its up to the individual where they get their animals from.

However, by buying directly from the pet shop you are fuelling the trade.....unless you take them all there will always be ones that suffer- including most likely the one that replaces the pig you buy.
 
Understood - but as said, if we don't take them others do and then they may end up being subjected to months of misery and neglect before being abandoned or given to a rescue where someone who gives their time only to rescues will end up taking it on anyway....Its a no win situation.

Same Piglover! When I had to buy Mishka (lizard) in August of this year my OH rang work and told them I wouldn't be in as I couldn't stop crying, when I finally stopped I went to take her out of her tank and bury her and that set me off again. I didn't go so far and nearly injure myself but I did pull out a nettle in the spot where I wanted to bury her as didn't see what it was through my watery eyesight - that hurt.....
 
What are we like Jenni eh?! Soft as S***t which is why we can't resist that poor little piggy sitting in the shop, I'd rather buy him knowing that he was gonna be safe tonight rather than sit at home wondering......................
 
I get all my guinea pig food and bedding from a chap that delivers to my door and they don't sell animals. If people don't go into pet shops and get all their pet supplies from other means then we will not be lining the pockets of petshops. They can not make a living by just selling animals, hope I am making sense!

Mary
 
Definitely Piglover! Oh, and I meant to say bury rather than buy Mishka, but I think you knew that! I didn't want another lizard after her but my OH took me to a pet shop a week later and I ended up with a Water Dragon......can't resist! ::)

I see what you mean Mary but I don't have anyone that will deliver to me unless I spend a small fortune delivery wise and also, I wouldn't want to get rid of pet shops. I've always loved them and always chose my pets by what I saw in the shop and then read up on. Wouldn't it be sad if you couldn't take your kids into the petshop to see what sort of pets they could have rather than telling them what they will have?
 
I agree, I love petshops I can resist buying things other than animals, chews for the dog next door, grassy hutches, cat beds (for the piggies) readigrass, timothy hay. Toys for my birds treats for the birds, And the odd lonely guinea pig - I would never split a pair in a shop because at least they have each other but loners just eat at your heart and if you are a true animal lover how can you resist?!

And yes kids need to see animals like that. When I was a kid my treat of the week was going to see the puppies in Bentalls on a saturday morning! cause they only had them on sat mornings.
 
Me too! Well, not in Bentalls but it was in a gorgeous petshop in Stroud where they had loads of different breeds of animals and my mum would take us there every saturday, we'd walk around oohing and aahing while my brothers would walk off to the sweet shop. I couldn't deny my children (when I have any) that experience.

You're as bad as me Piglover! I go into a pet shop and think oh, Freddy would love that, Flo needs that, Iggy would have so much fun with that - how I manage to feed and clothe myself I'll never know I give so much money to the petshop!
 
D'you know I have even gone overdrawn for the sake of my piggies! If Gillian McKeith came and looked in my fridge she be highly impressed until I told her its for the piggies - mines the fish fingers and chips! I panick when my hay is getting low I'm off to the pet shop at dinner time actually to stock up so brace yourselves they may have piggies..........!
 
Restrain yourself! Later that is!

Ditto! I've gone overdrawn this month getting more things for my lizard and a log cabin for my rabbit - well, the gp's have hogged the log round in the bedroom so she needs a winter home too!
 
I'm the same I cant resist the little piggy chairs, pigloos, the new toys and the best of hay ! I'm sure my husband despairs of me sometimes. He has actualy said its a good job I knew you were eccentric and animal mad before we married. My fridge looks like a green grocers shop and like you most of it is for the piggies and buns. My neighbours think I'm potty, the way I sit and chat to ALL the animals including the koi ! I do buy alot online now, so it can be secretly delivered to my work hee hee ! I dont feel at all guilty I want all my animals to have the best of lives and I try and support all my local rescues by fundraising.
 
I must get a pigloo again.......! Thanks for reminding me!

OH said the same about me! Well, actually, my mum apologised when we were talking pets and I was wanting all the baby rabbits and Tony said it was ok, he knew what I was like before we met!

I chat to my tropical fish...... :-[ I think if anyone saw me they'd think I was mad, especially when I tell the parrot fish to stop bullying the others!
 
My mother always said she hoped I didnt marry a zoo keeper because all the animals would be in the house ! My beloved first horse would walk into the kitchen ! ;D
 
Hehe ;D

That reminds me of one Xmas my stepmother brought my Xmas present into the house - it was her horse that she was giving to me! a 16.1 hand horse coming into the hallway with a huge silver bow around his neck, not something you see everyday!
 
Jenni75 said:
I see what you mean Mary but I don't have anyone that will deliver to me unless I spend a small fortune delivery wise and also, I wouldn't want to get rid of pet shops. I've always loved them and always chose my pets by what I saw in the shop and then read up on. Wouldn't it be sad if you couldn't take your kids into the petshop to see what sort of pets they could have rather than telling them what they will have?
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I think that a bit of a silly reason for pet shops to continue ;D You can always take your children to a rescue centre to choose their pet, providing you met the rehoming criteria ;)

piglover said:
And the odd lonely guinea pig - I would never split a pair in a shop because at least they have each other but loners just eat at your heart and if you are a true animal lover how can you resist?!
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I doesnt make someone not a true 'animal lover' because they dont buy from petshops ;D.........I'm not sure what the figure is for guinea pigs in rescue, but there are 33,000 rabbits in rescue centres aound the UK currently waiting for a forever home...wouldnt it be wonderful to give an animal a home who has been neglected and now needs some TLC?

And you can still get the fun of buying toys etc from a store that doesnt sell animals- they are around if you look for them ;).
Or why not save some money and buy them off the internet. www.bunnybasics.co.uk is excellent and not just for rabbits :)
 
maxthepig said:
Jenni75 said:
I see what you mean Mary but I don't have anyone that will deliver to me unless I spend a small fortune delivery wise and also, I wouldn't want to get rid of pet shops. I've always loved them and always chose my pets by what I saw in the shop and then read up on. Wouldn't it be sad if you couldn't take your kids into the petshop to see what sort of pets they could have rather than telling them what they will have?
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I think that a bit of a silly reason for pet shops to continue ;D You can always take your children to a rescue centre to choose their pet, providing you met the rehoming criteria ;)

piglover said:
And the odd lonely guinea pig - I would never split a pair in a shop because at least they have each other but loners just eat at your heart and if you are a true animal lover how can you resist?!
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I doesnt make someone not a true 'animal lover' because they dont buy from petshops ;D.........I'm not sure what the figure is for guinea pigs in rescue, but there are 33,000 rabbits in rescue centres aound the UK currently waiting for a forever home...wouldnt it be wonderful to give an animal a home who has been neglected and now needs some TLC?

And you can still get the fun of buying toys etc from a store that doesnt sell animals- they are around if you look for them ;).
Or why not save some money and buy them off the internet. www.bunnybasics.co.uk is excellent and not just for rabbits :)
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You missed the point - I was just saying that if you love animals like we all do here then its even harder to resist. I have also given a home to a rescue pig I dont just scour pet shops looking for lonely pigs y'know!
 
When I was younger we rescued a dog from Battersea - and it was the worst experience ever. Walking up and down rows of cages with all the dogs wanting attention and to come home with you. When we eventually did find a dog there was paperwork, loads of it, interviews to see what we were like, money paid out and then, after all that, we couldn't take the dog because it got kennel cough so it was either wait till it got better which my mum didn't want to do or choose another, the dog they chose was untrainable because it was so scared but it would happily attack any other dog. Happy ending though as my mum found her a home with a farmer that lives on his own and gives her loads of exercise and love and isn't bothered about whether she'll sit on command or not.

So, slightly off the trail there but when I do eventually have kids I want them to have the experience of going to a pet shop and seeing happy (which they usually are) pets and choose one, not take one because they feel guilty. It's like zoo's, yes, you can feel guilty for taking them out of their habitat but at the same time a lot of them run a breeding program that keeps these animals from extinction.
 
My guineas are rescued , from a rescue centre, so are my rabbits, two of my cats and Ive had two dogs from the dogs home. I have though bought animals from a pet shop in the past. I was actually in the pet shop delivering fundraising raffle tickets for a local rescue centre and the PDSA. As an animal lover I did look at the animals because I would have said something if they werent looking healthy. I have found many a pet shop that doesnt sell livestock and I also know about numerous online pet stores and have bought things from many of them. My feed and bedding is all delivered to me as I buy in bulk, having so many loved animals. The pet shop I went in supports all the local rescues hence them selling the raffle tickets.

I doesnt make someone not a true 'animal lover' because they dont buy from petshops .........I'm not sure what the figure is for guinea pigs in rescue, but there are 33,000 rabbits in rescue centres aound the UK currently waiting for a forever home...wouldnt it be wonderful to give an animal a home who has been neglected and now needs some TLC?
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May I add that it doesnt make the people who buy from a pet shop not a true animal lover too, they I'm sure on this forum love them as much as anyone :) Rescue Centres can be quite rural and if they arent local and you dont drive, it can be a problem. Same as if you cant drive and your nearest pet shop stocks animals, nobody would see their pet go hungry or without bedding if thats the only place they can go to.
 
My Blackie was from Battersea ( the old one with sheds outside thats all I can remember it was a blur from tears) It was the most awful experience I wanted them all! We had to fill out reams of paperwork and blackie then had to see the vet for a final check cause he had terrible eczema. He and I sat in the back all the way home and he licked me from Battersea to Northolt!! Happy days.

Exactly Beatrice I cant drive past PAH at night or lunchtime to try and find a petshop round here that doesn't stock animals, in fact I have to drive to a special one becuase they're the only ones who do the hay I like! We have 3 pet shops round here and a PAH, I'm always picking faults in PAH they know me well know! the other pet shops sell pets except one that is so ancient and spooky that it should be shut! They've never even heard of readigrass.
 
BEATRICE said:
Rescue Centres can be quite rural and if they arent local and you dont drive, it can be a problem.
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Also you will find they only rehome to within a certain mileage of where they are so if you are out of the permitted area you haven't got a hope in hell
 
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