Kids guinea pig competition based on sob stories

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Every year a local Farm near me hold a very popular guinea pig competition, it's nothing serious just a bit of fun & they have different categories you can enter, for example cutest couple & most handsome male etc etc & if your guinea pig wins you win a rosette & some goodies. :p & the winners from each category then go onto a grand final where the overall winner is picked & i think you win trophy.

When they first started, you basically won if you guinea pig fitted the category you entered (which tecnically should be right mallethead) so if a little girl entered a stupidly cute long haired baby guinea pig she instantly win cutest guinea pig etc etc
Well now it's basically the same only based around who has the best sob story!
When I went a couple of years ago my two girls came 2nd in the cutest couple & there were alot of sob stories going around then & at the time i didn't no that a sad story would make you win, so i just told them the truth & that I got Lucy & Scruffy from the county show, only Lucy had been rejected because she hadn't won anything so the owners no longer wanted her & i brought her.. & I came 2nd & at the time i was dead happy and so forth but now I can now see why I won, because of the sad story about Lucy

Well last year i went, this time just to watch, & i'm not joking, some of the stories people were coming out with was ridiculous, nearly every single person had a horribly sad story & for saying this is really meant to be for kids there were fully grown adults trying to compete, they were quite happily towering over these small children in order to win a quite frankly rubbish (& useless to them) rosette, where as a child would be completely over the moon if their little guinea pig won, and their not going to be telling horrible sad stories in order to win!

But i just think it's stupid, i personally don't think adult should be allowed to enter (when I say adult I mean people in like their mid 40's) it's a farm for children, and the contest is designed for children & yet the adult always seem to win with their stupid stories.
If you think I'm being harsh this is what one lady said (not in exact words XD & I've trimmed it down massively as she spoke for AGES, lets also call the guinea pig star, can't remember it's name)
When i moved into my new house i found star at the bottom of my garden, she was in all the over grown grass & had clearly been left by the previous owners (so far this could be true) I took her in and looked after, trimmed her nails down, gave her a bath & fed her, she was really frightened (so far still looking true) I then noticed she had some funny lumps on her back, so i took her to the vets & after being examined it turned out she's been shot 8 times in her back (this is when my o___O face started to appear) it looked like poor star had been used for target practice and because she was just left in the garden she hadn't been cared for so her wounds had healed with the bullets left inside. As you can see from her now you'd never have been able to tell (As she shows everyone a perfect looking guinea pig with no scares or anything) mallethead
What the hell! For starters a guinea pig wouldn't survived one gun shot let alone 8! and, AND this crazy woman won w.e category it was at the time! (thankfully she didn't win over all)

But other people were winning with their sad stories too, saying how they rescued there's & found there's in a ditch etc etc 9 time out of 10 they were completely made up lies.
And then it's some poor little child's turn with, "hi this is Ted, I got him from a pet shop & he's my best friend", & they don't win anything! In fact they seem to get frowned upon for saying they got it from a pet shop!

I just don't think its right, it should be full of kids having a good time, not full of middle aged adults, spinning a tail of lies. grrrr
 
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That is really bad - perhaps a nice letter to the organizers pointing out that as a previous winner and knowing a thing or two about guinea pigs that this years winner was in fact telling whale sized whoppers as there is no way a guinea would survive shot wounds etc - and that all entrants over a certain age should be banned - or they should have a junior section - teenage section and a golden oldies section- after all - how much does a rosette cost to buy! - failing that perhaps an open letter to your local newspaper might help .
 
Yeah I agree with TAN about having different age groups. Poor kids loosing out to some middle aged person making up lies to get a rosette. It's just rotten and spoiling the kids fun. Talk to the organizer or whoever holds the event and express your concerns. Are there mothers that feel the same? They might be able to send letters etc and if enough people complain they will probably change the event around so adults can't enter or have to enter with other people their own age
 
Hi I think I know which farm you mean as I live near it. I was actually going to take my 2 piggys last year as my son wanted them to enter but something came up and we couldnt so promised him we could take the 3 we have up this year. After hearing what you said, it just isnt right! I think that if the owner is someone who is NOT under 18 they shouldnt be allowed to enter! The whole point I thought was for the CHILDREN to show their beloved pets! I think I may not bother now, and I'm writing a letter of complaint to them as well!
 
Piggy people are lovely, they are some who are also completely insane. I say ask that a catergory be included, 'most insane guinea pig owner' - advertise it as:

'has your guinea pig been shot 8 times? has it been eaten by a fox and survived? has it died 10 times and come back? was it the only surviving creature of an earthquake? Did you save it just before the wild tribe of the local park was going to sacrifice it to their G_d's? Are you so obsessed that you make up stories just to win a kiddy contest?' if so this is the category for you'.inbreeding

Then, call your local mental health service, and have them come down in white coats and vans.....

Stand back and marvel at the stupidity of it all. @)

xx
 
That's terrible. Those poor little kids. I know winning something like that is a memory you treasure. I've only won one contest at a competition for making a hat and I was so proud to win (even if my brother did steal my prize!) so I know that in comparison to an adults ego being inflated, it'd really make a childs year!

I would certainly complain and ask for aged catagories or no one over 25 to enter.
 
squeakysmallpaws said:
Piggy people are lovely, they are some who are also completely insane. I say ask that a catergory be included, 'most insane guinea pig owner' - advertise it as:

'has your guinea pig been shot 8 times? has it been eaten by a fox and survived? has it died 10 times and come back? was it the only surviving creature of an earthquake? Did you save it just before the wild tribe of the local park was going to sacrifice it to their G_d's? Are you so obsessed that you make up stories just to win a kiddy contest?' if so this is the category for you'.inbreeding

Then, call your local mental health service, and have them come down in white coats and vans.....

Stand back and marvel at the stupidity of it all. @)

xx
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PMSL... :))

it is totally disgusting though... some people and their ego's eh...
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Thanks for the reply's everyone, I'm glad it's not just me who think's it's wrong.
I'm really hoping things will have changed for this years show (although it's been getting worse ever year so I doubt it) & I think an age restriction should be applied definitely, it's not fair having fully grown adults competing against little kids, especially when the kids don't seem to have any hope in hell of winning.

I think I'll go again before I write a letter just in case they have changed things, but if everything's still the same then they will definitely be receiving a letter with all the pointers on.

In fact I might enter and go in with some hocus-pocus story about my guinea pigs & see how far I get & if I won I would then put it to them how this show is set sourly on sad stories & how mine was made up to prove this point :p
 
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