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Today i went on a visit to pets at home to see if they had any new rescued piggies (they didnt which i was in a way pleased to see, but gutted i couldnt rehome a piggy!) - and i ended up looking at the regular piggies they stock, and couldnt help but notice how feminine and quite largely PREGNANT one of the 'male' piggies looked, it was quite noticably large which lead to my concern, mainly due to the fact that they are only a couple of months old when stocked at [email protected] then asked one of the shop floor assistants if they were meant to be male or female piggies. I was informed that they were all male and females were only kept at the back of the store, I asked them if they were sure the large piggies was a male, and they claimed to be sure...they then checked the sex of the guinea and turns out i was correct! and it got moved to the back of the store!
- Less than impressive!
Later today, I then took a trip to see what piggies a store in Lichfield had in stock, they had 12-13 in total. Split into two average sized cages (under-sized for 6 and 7 in each). When i asked if they had any sows in stock (to purchase a cage-mate for our other sow), they guy told me 'yeah half a dozen' and i asked which cage they were in, he told me..then my girlfriend picked one she liked and the guy came over to get it. He said he would check the sex before he sold it to us, and before our very eyes, he sexed a little boar! He then began to sex the rest..and found sows and boars mixed in each of the two cages! We eventually walked out disgusted without a potentially-pregnant guinea and will instead be looking to rehome another in the near future from somewhere else!
Whatever are pet shops thinking! mixing guinea pigs together, and at such young ages it is ridiculous!
- Less than impressive!
Later today, I then took a trip to see what piggies a store in Lichfield had in stock, they had 12-13 in total. Split into two average sized cages (under-sized for 6 and 7 in each). When i asked if they had any sows in stock (to purchase a cage-mate for our other sow), they guy told me 'yeah half a dozen' and i asked which cage they were in, he told me..then my girlfriend picked one she liked and the guy came over to get it. He said he would check the sex before he sold it to us, and before our very eyes, he sexed a little boar! He then began to sex the rest..and found sows and boars mixed in each of the two cages! We eventually walked out disgusted without a potentially-pregnant guinea and will instead be looking to rehome another in the near future from somewhere else!
Whatever are pet shops thinking! mixing guinea pigs together, and at such young ages it is ridiculous!
It was very frustrating ! I immediately checked all the piggies we had in to make sure they were all appropriately sexed. Luckily he was the only one. There is also a smaller pet store here whom gets there piggies at about 3-4 weeks of age and keeps them all in one large cage. Most of the pigs don't get adopted out before they become of breeding age and I have seen boars try to mount younger females. I don't' understand why they just can't separate them! Plus what if someone buys a sow and she has baby's a week later!
