Pets at home rescu quarantine procedure

Status
Not open for further replies.
V

Vikki

Adult Guinea Pig
Joined
Oct 25, 2007
Messages
2,000
Reaction score
6
Points
510
Location
Norwich Norfolk
Sophie and I visited pets at home to check out how the guineas were, and how busy the adoption section was. We got chatting to a member of staff talking like the guinea mad people we are just saying we were interested in the guineas. she was very forthcoming with the details of procedure of quarantining new arrivals to the adoption section. They are kept out back in close proximity to other animals checked over by a vet but then only kept for four days before going into the adoption section to go to a new home.
Four days is no where near enough for some illness to become apparent.
So if you do get guineas from pets at home adoption section do not rely on their quarantine as an indicator of their good health.
(letter sent to head office about correct quarantine of guineas!)
 
Nice on Vikki. Pudsey was from the adoption centre he had been in there for a whole month. Allergy to woodshavings and I think because people use a lot that they wouldn't change their bedding.

Four days is not long enough at all. But it's turn over and thats what matters to those in business. :(
 
Re: Pets at home rescue quarantine procedure

i know 4 days is not enough and please don't get hungry and bite my head off :o :o :o but 4 days is better than nothing as the pet shops near me get the piggies from breeders and put them straight into the cages and they are up for sale. so there is no quarentine what so ever here. one store i would never buy from again as have bought 3 piggies from them and choloe age 2 was the eldest who passed on the others were 6 months. the other petshop there piggies look healthy and happy. O0 though they don't have hay when i questioned them about this they said hay wasn't needed as the piggies weren't there long enough for hay to be important. whilst the first one keeps rabbits and piggies in the same cage, the second one keeps them seperate but side by side. and at least P&H gets them vet checked which is something both petshops here don't do. so when i get piggy/ies i take straight to vet for health check and keep isolated for around 3 weeks and always wash hands when new addition is handled or cleaned etc. hoping you get the isolation time changed and hoping the piggies at P&H are happy and healthy and sexed correctly O0 one can only hope :o :o :o
 
They are stepping in the right direction with having a quarantene but I would say it should be 3 weeks. If you are thinking of mites as just a simple and common illness of a pig then they are with the breeder (or animal mill depending on where you believe they actually come from) then they move to pet store quarantene for 4 days then they move again to the actual store where they usually have to get on with a large litter of pigs and then once purchased they move again.

That to me is just too much and no wonder they are so stressed. I never gave this a thought when I got the boys. I guess its a learning curve. :)
 
I agree chloe four days is better than nothing but we got the impression it was more to do with getting the paperwork done when we asked if they would be available now she was more than happy to go and ask the manager but we said not to worry (we both have quite enough guineas!). Sadly I am still getting regular calls about them mis-sexing babies but I am trying my best to work with the store on this one. I still write to head office but am friendly with the staff in store except for Eamon bless him who is more than used to my visits and looks at me as if 'what are you going to ask about now?' >:D ^-^.
A friend at another sanctuary has asked me to act as middle man and pass on details of bunnies the store can't take (they have been swamped with calls about rabbits since sprowston rescue closed) and I hope by being approachable and helpful with complaints being politely made to head office and suggestions made to staff as 'an experinced piggy owner' can get some results.
I am going to go ak and have a good chat with them and suggest a few changes when I go to pass on numbers that can be of help when heir rescue section gets calls about animals they can't take in.
With the current state of affairs here with so many unwanted animals everyone needs to work together to avoid animals getting dumped or worse!
 
I'm not sure about the rescues at our one, but theres only a 3 day quarantine for new guinea pigs coming in 98)
i wouldnt like to see conditions out back :(
 
At the end of the day, its a shop. They dont have the room to quarenteen for months do they? If you dont like that, dont buy from them ITS SIMPLE. I'm really bored of people constantly moaning about P@H if you dont like it, dont buy from them. If you dont like it, dont even go into the shop. But you cant can you? People have to keep going just so they have something to moan about.

I have never had a bad expierence with P@H at all, and I'm glad with the health of the animals. People moan about them miss sexing animals, but if you were that bothered you would check yourself what sex it is wouldnt you. People moan about the fact that once you buy them, they somethimes give birth as they were pregnant. That isnt always P@H fault. It can be the breeders they get them off when they got pregnant. Also, people are against breeding, but have you ever thought that if nobody bred them, there wouldnt be any guinea pigs? The ones in rescues would be rehomed, and then no more would be bred to allow the keeping of GP's around.

Rant over.
 
No they don't have the space for quarentene so in that respect because they can't they shouldn't sell animals. It's not just P@H for me its ALL pet shops that sell animals yes I've three boars that came from pet shops so perhaps some of you think I shouldn't moan but my viewpoint has changed so much and I am so angry, infact I'm like the Doctor when he discovers the Daleks are still alive! :tickedoff: 666)

I watched a video here last night http://www.petsmartcruelty.com/video.asp Now it doesn't make nice viewing and I mean it don't look at it if you are sensitive to such things. If staff at pet shops don't know the basics when it comes to caring for animals like sexing and noticing when ill they shouldn't have a job in the industry.

But as you say breeding guinea pigs has to happen for them to exsist and in this sense I do agree but not from BYB's or Animal Mills because. And the end of the day the care has to be 100% spot on otherwise their exsistence for me is pointless. :'(

My Rant over! ;D
 
SunshineAndTwinkle said:
No they don't have the space for quarentene so in that respect because they can't they shouldn't sell animals. It's not just P@H for me its ALL pet shops that sell animals yes I've three boars that came from pet shops so perhaps some of you think I shouldn't moan but my viewpoint has changed so much and I am so angry, infact I'm like the Doctor when he discovers the Daleks are still alive! :tickedoff: 666)

I watched a video here last night http://www.petsmartcruelty.com/video.asp Now it doesn't make nice viewing and I mean it don't look at it if you are sensitive to such things. If staff at pet shops don't know the basics when it comes to caring for animals like sexing and noticing when ill they shouldn't have a job in the industry.

But as you say breeding guinea pigs has to happen for them to exsist and in this sense I do agree but not from BYB's or Animal Mills because. And the end of the day the care has to be 100% spot on otherwise their exsistence for me is pointless. :'(

My Rant over! ;D
Click to expand...
a very well said rant ;D
 
My spelling is up the swanny without a paddle! ;D (I think thats a Liverpool saying)

You know no offence to anyone, I do have extreme views on petshops and I know nothing can be done about it. I do hate the moan moan moan threads myself as well because its frustrating that nothing can be done about it, I mean where do you start? Who will listen?

My MP is a nutcase whois only concerned with knocking bridges down! 98)
 
SunshineAndTwinkle said:
But as you say breeding guinea pigs has to happen for them to exsist and in this sense I do agree but not from BYB's or Animal Mills
Click to expand...

And this is exactly what pet shops encourage.

Tom_cat come on, be realistic. It's not like they're going to become extinct. There will always be people breeding them no matter what we all believe. But we need to cut out the poor, sickly beasts that are the "stock" that most shops sell. If you cut out the selling of animals in pet shops that encourage impulse purchases then perhaps one day we might have no rescues - BRILLIANT! I'm sure all the rescuers deserve a rest.

Yes they SHOULD have space to quarantine, it's disgraceful that they don't. I don't like the attitude that because it's a shop they should in some way be exempt from checking the animals they are selling are healthy? At the end of the day, it's a life. And it might be a sickly life that ends up in the hands of an inexperienced owner that decides it's only a guinea pig and isn't worth treating.
 
daftscotslass said:
SunshineAndTwinkle said:
But as you say breeding guinea pigs has to happen for them to exsist and in this sense I do agree but not from BYB's or Animal Mills
Click to expand...

And this is exactly what pet shops encourage.

Tom_cat come on, be realistic. It's not like they're going to become extinct. There will always be people breeding them no matter what we all believe. But we need to cut out the poor, sickly beasts that are the "stock" that most shops sell. If you cut out the selling of animals in pet shops that encourage impulse purchases then perhaps one day we might have no rescues - BRILLIANT! I'm sure all the rescuers deserve a rest.

Yes they SHOULD have space to quarantine, it's disgraceful that they don't. I don't like the attitude that because it's a shop they should in some way be exempt from checking the animals they are selling are healthy? At the end of the day, it's a life. And it might be a sickly life that ends up in the hands of an inexperienced owner that decides it's only a guinea pig and isn't worth treating.
Click to expand...

Agreed!!
 
They live wild in Peru and the like so they aint going anywhere anytime soon. 8) I don't like animals going extinct! :'(
 
SunshineAndTwinkle said:
They live wild in Peru and the like so they aint going anywhere anytime soon. 8) I don't like animals going extinct! :'(
Click to expand...

The piggies that we have in captivity don't exist in the wild :( There's about 2000 years of domestication between them and their wild counterparts.
 
Guinea pigs and rabbits will never become extinct :) They are bred too much ::)
 
But we need to cut out the poor, sickly beasts that are the "stock" that most shops sell. If you cut out the selling of animals in pet shops that encourage impulse purchases then perhaps one day we might have no rescues - BRILLIANT! I'm sure all the rescuers deserve a rest
Click to expand...
.

Well said and I totally agree O0
 
That's true Lorna, you see it all the time people saying they'll be ok in the winter outdoors because they live in the wild abroad. But they are totally different. The only thing you can say is the specie won't disapear.

Kelly you are so right, and Pet shops will keep going and we'll keep moaning. We need a Mary Whitehouse of the pig world. :-X ::) :o ;D

I think having done some fostering it just makes me aware of what goes on a little bit better than before, which is why I'm like a bull in a China shop about this topic right now! >:D
 
It annoys me too it makes me feel sick, there would be an uproar if humans were treated like this >:( But whilst there are selfish irresponsible people (if you can call them people) are out there animals will be treated like this and theres not much we can do :(
 
Re: Pets at home rescue quarantine procedure

louise, that video made me sick just to watch. why treat innocent animals like that? why abuse them? it is a sad world we live in. it is bad enough to sell sick animals to people but to treat them like that behind the scenes is appalling. surely something can be done for them? i sent the email to the owner of petsmart but doesn't seem enough. thank you for opening my eyes to it, it is bad enough here in oz with dog farms. just makes me so damn >:( >:( >:( get the :police: :police: :police: onto them!
 
Mary it's truley awful I wanted to turn it off but I knew that was too easy. I'm not sure if things like this happen in the UK I sent the email too. It's a help I guess but sad we can't do more. (((hugs)))
 
None of the rescues I have ever taken in have fallen ill as a result of being at P@H or not being quarantined for long in the shop. I know there are many P@H shops out there but I share the same as Vikki.

At any point when I have been in there, all the animals are clean, fed and have water and at least the shop assistants are willing to discuss the quarantine procedures and for this we should be grateful.

I know of a shop out this way that won't even sex the small animals. You have to sex them yourself upon choosing. This way they cannot be held responsible.

I think when you buy any animal, from anywhere, pet shop or breeder or even from the free-ads, it's a case of buyer beware !

Claire
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top