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Interesting article.

🙄 There is so much easy to access information out there on guinea pigs and their care but still we get piggies in at Merrypigs that have been fed weird foods, haven't had nails clipped, males kept with females, fed lawn mower clippings, not given enough hay/any hay at all, fed on muesli and much more.
There really is no excuse, now more than ever.
 
It's so sad :( but on the flip side, hopefully an increase in calls shows an increase of awareness by the public and a willingness to demand action when they see substandard keeping. It used to be just accepted that they would sit forgotten at the bottom of the garden in a tiny hutch, hopefully now people are starting to expect better, and reporting it when that is not the case.
 
Until being able to pop into a shop and pick up a guinea pig (or any animal) into a box and take it home sadly things won't get much better. I've seen pester power in action in our local pet shop, some parents just can't say no to anything, they don't want a small furry and the children get bored after a few weeks. To be fair to the staff in our shop they refuse to sell under these circumstances when they can and refuse to sell a lone piggy unless they know it's going to a home with other's for companionship but I doubt there are many like them.

I was asked this week by a relative if I'd heard that you can't buy one guinea pig. A friend of his was discusted to be refused one a couple of weeks ago. Well done that shop too. Maybe the message is getting out there slowly!
 
This is also a reason why it’s a shame that the Guinea Pig Magazine isn’t available to buy in pet shops anymore.
If it’s there in front of people waiting in a queue they’re more likely to buy than when you have make a conscious effort to get it .

Things are changing slowly but it’s up to us to keep on pestering
 
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