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As you are all aware I am trying to get my daughters school to understand that it is wrong to house a guinea pig with a rabbit.
Despite providing them with information and facts about the seriousness of this I feel that I am not being listened too.
Please respond to this thread with any helpful comments you can give to the school.
In particular, if you run a rescue and have had any piggies brought in that have been injured through irresponsible people housing them with rabbits.
Thank you all for you continued support :)
 
If they dont want to listen then that school is bad for educating such youngsters to grow up thinking its fine to house rabbits and guinea pigs together and that is just being ignorant if they dont want to listen :-\ What are they getting out of not listening to you and not taking advice on bourd - Do they have them together if so then tell them its not hard to get an extra cage/hutch to separate them just to be better safe than sorry even if you are wrong - which your not obviously but in their minds you are ::)

Ive had guinea pigs with injurys to their eyes and a death of a little baby guinea pig due to housing them with a rabbit when i didnt know better but as soon as someone told me i took them away :)
 
I have seen how a rabbit can injure a guinea pig without meaning to by standing all over it. This can cause internal injuries or worse. It is not right to house rabbits with guinea pigs. A rabbit should be housed with a rabbit and a guinea pig with a guinea pig! They have different diets. Rabbits need vitamin D and guiena pigs vitamin C.

Also rabbits need a yearly injection of two jabs and also spayed or neutered at around 6 months.

Please consider this, by all means educate children on pet care but please provide the correct information otherwise I have to ask what is the point?
 
Have they come back to you since you spoke to the Head yesterday, or the other people that you contacted?
 
Well done for standing up for what is right and doing what you can for those poor school pets. I think it is so wrong to keep pets in a school. The poor animals have to be continually picked up by children who don't know how to handle them, and then they are either abandoned or sent out to lots of different homes at weekends or in the holidays. If you don't get a reply (and suitable action) from the headmaster soon, I would write again, WITH COPIES TO THE GOVERNORS, asking why he is not taking advice from people who are experienced and qualified to give it, and stating that if anything happens to these animals then you trust he will be able to justify his decision. >:(
 
Stefanie said:
Well done for standing up for what is right and doing what you can for those poor school pets. I think it is so wrong to keep pets in a school. The poor animals have to be continually picked up by children who don't know how to handle them, and then they are either abandoned or sent out to lots of different homes at weekends or in the holidays. If you don't get a reply (and suitable action) from the headmaster soon, I would write again, WITH COPIES TO THE GOVERNORS, asking why he is not taking advice from people who are experienced and qualified to give it, and stating that if anything happens to these animals then you trust he will be able to justify his decision. >:(
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agreed!!
 
i live in australia and am apalled by the lack of knowledge about guinea pigs and rabbits by vets, also appalled that most people won't take these pets to the vet as they are cheaper to replace than to fix. i would suggest you go onto the internet and do some research for yourself, and you will find what you have been told is right. you are a school teacher who teaches children who are willing to learn, why is it that adults refuse to listen and to learn?
this person has only the best interest of your pets at heart and she is trying to help you to help them! i have had guinea pigs for years and thought i knew a lot until i joined the guinea pig forum and found i knew next to nothing but i love these furry babies and i am willing to learn.
so please for the animals welfare and for the children in your care education please won't you rehome either the bunny or the little piggie? i would hate to see the bunny accidently step on the piggy or sit on it or for the piggy to get sick from the bunny, what will you tell the children then? please at least be open to learning and to help these poor animals have a long happy life and to teach the children the right way to care for these pets. just log onto the internet and look for yourself all i ask is please!
 
Pigs can catch Pasturella or Pasteurellosis from rabbits, I believe.

Not all rabbits carry it, but they can carry it without becoming ill/without an owner knowing. If the guinea pig picks this bacteria up from the rabbit it basically equals death.

Also, I did read somewhere, it may have been on here, that someone had a rabbit who basically flattened 2 or 3 guineas to death, not intentionally, but because the guineas were warm to lie on :( The way it was explained was pretty graphic to say the least.

The rabbit may be a baby still and very small in size, but I wonder if the school might change their minds once it gets full grown...they can get very big!

I worry about the animals social behaviours, pigs (as we all know!) need company of their own kind, they chat away to each other in their own language etc. Rabbits also need their own company but unfortunately owning two rabbits is not ideal for everyone, and I would be quite concerned if the school got another rabbit. In my opinion they shouldn't have one! Rabbits in comparison to pigs need more stimulation, more exercise, are harder to handle, will get hormonal if not spayed, need injections, need huge accomodation....not to play down the needs of piggies, nor try to make out pigs are a better childs pet (because I don't think anything is a good childs pet unless closely supervised!) but I think pigs are a better, gentler choice for a school.
 
Stefanie said:
Well done for standing up for what is right and doing what you can for those poor school pets. I think it is so wrong to keep pets in a school. The poor animals have to be continually picked up by children who don't know how to handle them, and then they are either abandoned or sent out to lots of different homes at weekends or in the holidays. If you don't get a reply (and suitable action) from the headmaster soon, I would write again, WITH COPIES TO THE GOVERNORS, asking why he is not taking advice from people who are experienced and qualified to give it, and stating that if anything happens to these animals then you trust he will be able to justify his decision. >:(
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I totally agree. You would think that an educational establishment would take any concerns on board.
If the teachers are not educated themselves what chance have the children got! :tickedoff:
 
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