So many piggies unloved

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I've just been looking on the website of the rescue centre we got our piggies from, as you do, just to see what's new....and they have SO many new piggies :'( :'( :'(

There are several batches of babies. Plus pairs of adults. I just don't get it, where do they all come from? I just don't understand this world :tickedoff: :tickedoff: :tickedoff: how can it be too hard to look after a piggie properly?! Is it breeders that just can't be bothered with their welfare? >:(

I was so nieive to all this before we started the process of adopting our two darlings. I just can't believe how bad the problem is...and this is only one rescue centre. What would the little piggies do without these places? :'( :'(
 
i know what u mean its horrible :'(

ive seen so many poor piggies that needed rehoming since i got my two, if i had the financial backing and the space i would adopt them all, but at the moment i can only stick with the two i have.
 
I'm the same. I would love to take in some more, but don't feel am experienced enough at the mo as we've only just got ours. Plus we've only a small garden, so don't really have anywhere to put new additions... :(
 
Before we found out about rescues, we were about to get ours from a petshop. I'm SO glad we found out about rescues in time - I truly believe most people don't realise how many are in rescue, we always hear about dogs and cats, but rarely rabbits or guinea pigs.
 
The problem is not down to true breeders but more down to people who put a boar and sow into the same cage and let them have back to back breeding then dont split the sexes and it gets way out of control and they then pass them onto a rescue because they cant find homes and cant cope with them all.
The true genuine breeders care for their piggys every bit as much as we do
 
All my rescues are from members of the public, not breeders. At the moment they are all pet shop piggies, the majority being from Pets @ Home. But often small groups of pigs come in where someone has had a go at breeding pets then got stuck with the result.
 
Sadly the ones I have here in rescue are here because people simply got fed up with them :'( :'( :'( (People usually term it as "I just don't have the time to give them that they need")

Quite a few were bought on a whim as cute little furry additions and when the reality of the feeding/cleaning/caring/loving hits home they were simply given to me. Out of sight out of mind and not a tear shed either when they are handed over.

One woman said to me "Now I've got rid of them it's one less thing to worry about!" (If I got rid of everything I'd ever worried about I'd have rehomed my three children and husband along time ago LOL along with the dogs, the chickens, the cats and my mother!)

Very generally speaking there just seems to be a national shortage of what I call "stickability" and just as animals are bought on a whim so be it that they are disposed of. It's not easy for people to fully understand long term committment.
 
Summerleaze sadly you are so right! People just don't think about the commitment involved in having a pet. I think they think guineas and buns are "an easy" option as you don't have to walk them etc etc but they need just as much love and attention.

Maybe i'm mad, but i really enjoy cleaning out their hutch 0:) 0:) I find it really satisying to put them back in a nice fresh clean home for the night!

I asked my partner if he thought they realised that we changed them every night and made sure the bedding was clean and dry. What do you reckon?
 
sokel said:
The problem is not down to true breeders but more down to people who put a boar and sow into the same cage and let them have back to back breeding then dont split the sexes and it gets way out of control and they then pass them onto a rescue because they cant find homes and cant cope with them all.
The true genuine breeders care for their piggys every bit as much as we do
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I'm sure you're right about real breeders with a passion for the animals, but from what i can gather there's a lot who just think of them as money making machines. The rescue said there was one serial offender that they kept getting buns off when they were either ill, past their prime breeding or that produced babies with slight deviations from the perfect colours of the breed. They'd had something like 80 from them in the last two years. :tickedoff: :tickedoff: :tickedoff:
 
I love cleaning the hutches too. Will be signing off to do it in a minute. I love everything about the darlings, even Cozzie crapping all over me last night :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
 
Lucinda said:
I love cleaning the hutches too. Will be signing off to do it in a minute. I love everything about the darlings, even Cozzie crapping all over me last night :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
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Ha ha haa i haven't had that pleasure yet, but don't think will enjoy it as much as you seem to! ;D ;D ;D
 
i got my piggies from a proper breeder who has kept every single piggy, and seperates all the sexes, and gives them so much time, space and attention. she was genuinely sad when i got my piggies from her, wouldnt let me give her any money for them, she just made sure she taught me how to hold them/ look after them, and that i had suitable housing for them before i collected them.

i think its terrible the way some breeders treat their animals, the poor things deserve a much better life than what they get, i cant get how some people just dont care about the lives of another living thing.

me and my friend keep saying in a couple of years once I'm more experienced with piggies, and we have the money we'd love to adopt/rescue loads of pigs and buns (she loves rabbits) i just wish i had the space for them now. i would love to adopt a couple of sows, i only have 2 boars at the minute both of which are very spoiled and get so much attention. i wish i had a garden to put piggies in but i dont, so unfortunately i only have indoor space too
 
I agree with teabag - bear in mind that some of these so-called good breeders offload their excess "stock" (usually the pigs that don't have show quality markings) to the general public either directly or via pet shops some even via the free ads. These are the animals that often end up in rescue just because they didn't make the show stand/breeding pen and were given/sold to anyone that would take them.

It's a shame that so many more people out there don't realise rescues exist - probably because it's easier to go to your nearest pet shop, hand over some notes and get a pet no questions asked.

There have been some spectacular excuses I've heard about for people giving up to rescue - "I can't keep the pigs because I wouldn't have room for the Christmas tree" is my personal favourite. Ridiculous, really.

I honestly used to believe there wasn't a problem in my area but I was sooo wrong and now volunteer at Thistle Cavies whenever I can.
 
daftscotslass said:
I agree with teabag - bear in mind that some of these so-called good breeders offload their excess "stock" (usually the pigs that don't have show quality markings) to the general public either directly or via pet shops some even via the free ads. These are the animals that often end up in rescue just because they didn't make the show stand/breeding pen and were given/sold to anyone that would take them.

It's a shame that so many more people out there don't realise rescues exist - probably because it's easier to go to your nearest pet shop, hand over some notes and get a pet no questions asked.

There have been some spectacular excuses I've heard about for people giving up to rescue - "I can't keep the pigs because I wouldn't have room for the Christmas tree" is my personal favourite. Ridiculous, really.

I honestly used to believe there wasn't a problem in my area but I was sooo wrong and now volunteer at Thistle Cavies whenever I can.
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They got rid of their piggies to home a Xmas tree? :o :o :o That defies belief
 
I have been looking for a rescue piggy for a while but there were none near me. They all seem to be in Kent! I was considering going to see Graham's George, but that would make our herd 3 boars.
I saw 2 babies in P@H and I know it is not the best idea to buy from a pet shop but I fell in love with them. You know when you just know that they are supposed to go home with you?
We have 1 rescue piggy, Jeremy, who is a very naughty funny boy and eats for England!
 
We have some in Reading too Katie and more waiting to come in when there's room :)
 
I rescued a piggy at my local p@h recently. I know what people mean when they say some breeders only think of them as money making machines, I had to go into a small local pet shop for supplies recently and when the owner saw my shopping he was full of questions- 'are you breeding your animals, if you do can I buy some? They sell so well'... etc. Yeah I bet they do, and yet I hear of so many near me that have met a sticky end and have heard petshop owners giving out husbandry advice that was simply wrong. I was asked to leave another local pet shop for telling a fellow customer that no, you should not actually keep syrian hamsters in pairs as they are solitary animals and would fight. Sometimes I despair at the thought of all the sad rodents out there :'(
When I win the lottery I will never have to turn down waifs and strays, I will buy a farm and open a rescue centre. :)
 
i can't beleive how many piggies are homeless. :'( it's terrible, some of them are there for 'ok' reasons i suppose (i saw one that had been owned by a mentally ill person who thought they could look after it and actually couldn't ) but the majority are just not wanted, children got bored of them, people moved, families split up etc. . :tickedoff: :tickedoff: :tickedoff: it makes me so mad! i really wish i could take in more, i just can't at the moment. :'(
 
There are so many unwanted animals and the worst of it is you get people that are fully aware of the amopunt of animals needing homes and they still go on to rehome animals to fit new ones in ::)
 
katiep said:
I have been looking for a rescue piggy for a while but there were none near me. They all seem to be in Kent! I was considering going to see Graham's George, but that would make our herd 3 boars.
I saw 2 babies in P@H and I know it is not the best idea to buy from a pet shop but I fell in love with them. You know when you just know that they are supposed to go home with you?
We have 1 rescue piggy, Jeremy, who is a very naughty funny boy and eats for England!
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Where do you live katiep?
 
North Wales. We got Jeremy from Guineas for Life in St Helens so I was looking anywhere in Cheshire/Merseyside/N.Wales but there didn't seem to be any piggies in these areas... I can only have boars as my brother is chronically allergic to female furries?! 98)
 
katiep said:
North Wales. We got Jeremy from Guineas for Life in St Helens so I was looking anywhere in Cheshire/Merseyside/N.Wales but there didn't seem to be any piggies in these areas... I can only have boars as my brother is chronically allergic to female furries?! 98)
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ooh blimey! Thats a shame...they have lots of single boars looking for homes at the rescue i got mine from, sadly is in south london! You could have a look on here...you may already know about it tho...
http://www.animalrescuers.co.uk/html/rabferr.html
 
katiep said:
Thanks Teabag, I think we have enough piggies/rabbits/hamsters now though!
Its a shame there were none closer.

I love the name by the way!
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;D ;D Its actually one of my piggies names...figured i'd never forget my log in that way!
 
Hmm, I kinda guessed it wasn't your name!

Mind you, OH calls me "Egg", so you never know! (Natural progression from Chuck to Chuckly to Chuckie Egg to just Egg now!)
 
I would adopt them,But am not that old not old enough to drive.I have to pay for 2piggies and a hamster when am older i will adopt some though,Because there lovely animals. 8)
 
I breed for exhibition. I only breed when I need to as I have to control my numbers as I won't let any of my pigs go. I'm ok with the breeds I have as an undermarked pig can be paired with an overmarked pig to even out the markings so I don't have any pigs that are 'no good for breeding/showing). After I lost all my pigs (bar 3) to the mystery virus or whatever nearly 2 years ago it made me really possessive of the new pigs that I got and I won't part with any of them, they'll be with me till they die.

Kat
 
It's so very sad, there are so many unwanted and uncared for animals in the world.

I don't believe in breeding, a few years ago I use to be indifferent to breeding, but seeing the sheer volume of animals that die in rescues every single day, I truly don't believe in any sort of breeding anymore. There is no need to continue with these man made breeds. I know some rabbit breeders and I don't think they're bad people by any stretch of the imagination, they're nice folk who look after their animals well, it's just the act of adding more unwanted pets to this world that I disagree with and don't even get me started on bad breeders, who breed from animals with known problems and for profit.

I am a weirdo vegan though, so in my ideal world we would live side by side with animals and not keep them as pets. My animals enrich my life and I love them, but I would be so much happier had they of never been domesticated in the first place and we had no animals in captivity.

While there are animals in need of home I'll help as much as I can, it just breaks my heart that their are so many unwanted animals, the lucky ones are in rescues, the unlucky ones are sat at bottoms of gardens, unloved, un-kept and forgotten and slowly die in their tiny coffins that they're owners call a hutch. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

If you can please rescue.
 
but I would be so much happier had they of never been domesticated in the first place and we had no animals in captivity.
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Not sounding rude here but if that were the case, there'd be no dogs, cats, cows, pigs, sheep, etc etc the list goes on and all animals that did exist would be scared of you.

Kat
 
KatsCavies said:
but I would be so much happier had they of never been domesticated in the first place and we had no animals in captivity.
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Not sounding rude here but if that were the case, there'd be no dogs, cats, cows, pigs, sheep, etc etc the list goes on and all animals that did exist would be scared of you.

Kat
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That is what I prefer, why would I want a cow to exist purely to be slaughtered? Why would I want any domestic animal to exist purley for my own amusement? I would not be bothered in the slightest, if animals were scared of me! Unfortunately as humans we're born to think we should be the master of every other life forms and control everything. When us, as a race are parasites, all we do is destroy our environment, kill each other, dominated and kill other species, pollute the sea, the air, the soil and all for endless greed. Really if there is any hope for this planet and the animals on it, it would be better if we didn't exist. ;D

Sorry kind of off topic, you don't sound rude btw O0.
 
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