Guinea Pigs £350 ono

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I thought maybe my eyes were deceiving me...

He must be running a horrid breeding farm of some sort, to advertise guines for £350, there must be soooo many of them.:)>>>
 
maybe it's a typo considering the amount of spelling and grammatical errors in the message??

It's the 'entertainment and food' bit that worries me... you can't even report for inappropriate content... grrrr
 
I've just sent an email to the 'report abuse' address on freeads. No idea who it goes to or if I'll get a response, but that ads sick.

Wondering if they mean reptile food? Its pretty upsetting when you see frozen guinea pigs for sale at £3.50 each in petshops... I mean what kind of a life must the piggy have that it can be produced and sold for just £3.50? It really doesn't bear thinking about. :)>>>
 
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I've just sent an email to the 'report abuse' address on freeads. No idea who it goes to or if I'll get a response, but that ads sick.

Wondering if they mean reptile food? Its pretty upsetting when you see frozen guinea pigs for sale at £3.50 each in petshops... I mean what kind of a life must the piggy have that it can be produced and sold for just £3.50? It really doesn't bear thinking about. :)>>>
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food ? frozen g pigs in petshops

thats just awfull he cant love them if he is happy to sell them as food, i am sooo angry
 
daisyd said:
I've just sent an email to the 'report abuse' address on freeads. No idea who it goes to or if I'll get a response, but that ads sick.
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I agree that their precategorising for reporting is too narrow... grrrrgrrrr
 
obviously breeding willy nilly for cash - unfortunately people do breed piggies specifically for the snake food industry.................i got handed some many many months ago (a rabbit was included which we kept) - they were at a market and were caged with a label at the side saying

? snake food.


A lady I know bought the lot for a tenner and brought them to me - all rehomed now of course.

Anyhow I wonder the RSPCA could do anything about this - is Allan on today? He will know.

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About the food part,

Peruvians consume about 65 million guinea pigs each year, this is because they are high in protein and low in fat, they also take up less space that 'traditional livestock'.
The animal is also in the western culture that one famous painting of the Last Supper in the main cathedral in Cusco shows Christ and the twelve disciples dining on guinea pig.
In many US restaurants they use guinea pig as a delicacy.

I thought I should show the other side of the story.

However, in our eyes it may seem wrong, for others it's a source of food for their family.
Remember guinea pigs were eaten before they were domesticated!

This advert must be a sick joke, the spelling and grammar is appalling. The advertiser could be a mass producer.

"unfortunately people do breed piggies specifically for the snake food industry................." - Hels
I'd also like to add, as a Reptile owner, that you cannot feed baby guinea pigs to reptiles because of the bone, fur and teeth cause them to be indigestible. Also the little meat compared to the baby mice, rats and chicks make them a less 'valuable' option. And for some snakes they are too big to feed to snakes smaller than a yearling.

-Rose.
 
But in our culture we don't eat guinea pigs, so it is alien to us.

Helen awful to think of were Rupert came from, he is one lucky rabbit. x)
 
it seemed to me like maybe the person selling is foreign, probably from South America? just a thought...
I do agree though that it is culturally wrong here to think of GPs as food but we know that other cultures eat cats and dogs, horsemeat, frogs legs, snails, rabbit, etc... and that is widely accepted.
 
Maybe I'm just being optimistic but I think there are 2 errors - the price and is food maybe not meant to be fun. The rest of the advert is promoting guinea pigs so it doesn't fit in that they mention food as well - just thinking maybe they were thinking about their dinner at the time of writing the advert.

I'm not standing up for them in any way as mass breeding is totally wrong but just when I read it over it just seems as though they made errors in the advert. I'm also sorry to add but if it is for food, unfortunately snakes etc do have to eat too - and that is their diet. I'm sure the chicken that is in my cat's food came from a non-free range farm and they were probably poorly looked after but my cats have to eat meat at the end of the day.
 
I am very suspicous of the adverts of people that are willing to give guinea pigs and rabbits a home, but they don't want to pay for them, or it doesn't matter what sex they are or how many you want to give to them, cos they would be going to a good home. Some people might be genuine, but some are not. :(
 
As a non-vegitarian I can't say I have a problem with animals being used for food - be it for humans or petfood. Everything lives and dies...

I just like to think that if the animals are domesticated they should get best life we can give them, rather than suffering and being miserable, which is why I made my point regarding the g'pigs as snake food... but seeing as I have never seen the conditions of g'pigs that are kept for reptile food this was probably unfair. I think its just as bad when piggies are bought then doomed to live the rest of their lives shoved in a tiny cage, neglected and hungry when owners lose interest.
 
damn didnt get to read it its been removed!

I love snakes and understand that they need to eat too. just selling that number of animals off and to any tom dick or harry is a very scary thought! fingers crossed for a typo!

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