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Have read the thread and couldn't help but want to add that Debs had agreed to take a rescue pig from a rescue who is overrun with pigs at the moment and then backed out even though the run was practically arranged as she'd bought this one so I'm not sure that just congratulating her on getting a pig is the right thing to do - sorry Debs but I don't agree with letting the rescue pig and the rescue down :(

I'm not totally against buying a pig, one of mine came from a petshop and two from a breeder and the other two are rescues, however, to 'fall in love' with a pig in a rescue and arrange to have him then buy one and say to rescue sorry can't have it now, hmmmmm ::)

Don't mean to cause any offence, just my opinion
 
kayjay said:
Have read the thread and couldn't help but want to add that Debs had agreed to take a rescue pig from a rescue who is overrun with pigs at the moment and then backed out even though the run was practically arranged as she'd bought this one so I'm not sure that just congratulating her on getting a pig is the right thing to do - sorry Debs but I don't agree with letting the rescue pig and the rescue down :(

I'm not totally against buying a pig, one of mine came from a petshop and two from a breeder and the other two are rescues, however, to 'fall in love' with a pig in a rescue and arrange to have him then buy one and say to rescue sorry can't have it now, hmmmmm ::)

Don't mean to cause any offence, just my opinion
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Thats just what I was thinking but didnt dare say anything ?
 
kayjay said:
Have read the thread and couldn't help but want to add that Debs had agreed to take a rescue pig from a rescue who is overrun with pigs at the moment and then backed out even though the run was practically arranged as she'd bought this one so I'm not sure that just congratulating her on getting a pig is the right thing to do - sorry Debs but I don't agree with letting the rescue pig and the rescue down :(

I'm not totally against buying a pig, one of mine came from a petshop and two from a breeder and the other two are rescues, however, to 'fall in love' with a pig in a rescue and arrange to have him then buy one and say to rescue sorry can't have it now, hmmmmm ::)

Don't mean to cause any offence, just my opinion
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Agree with Kathryn :).
Its not a problem getting a pig from a pet shop- I'm pro rescue but thats up to you Debs ;).

IMO though it nots right to let the rescue down when you'd even arranged a date when he was coming to you etc.
 
Well we hadnt arranged a date as the lady who ran the rescue was coming to my area on a Sunday, which is when I'm working, I contacted her more than once to explain this and ask how we were going to work around it, and she read the message but didnt reply.
This gave me the impression that she wasnt really that bothered, and then when I saw Simba in the pet shop I took him!

But, anywya, this post wasnt me admitting to buying a cavy...it was me admitting to lying!
 
i got my 2 10 weeks old girls form a pet shop at the weekend - i only got them form a pet shop coz my other 2 where from a breader and the breader has stopped breading er guinea pigs so she said to go there there been ok so far
 
I recently took three guineas in from someone who was breeding for the Wilson's where Debs bought this little chap. Two of them were in such a bad state that they can not be rehomed. They had fathered litters that had all died and killed the sows in the process. They needed vet treatment and were no longer earning their keep, so they were given to me. Of course the sows didn't survive to get rescued :'(

Now what is the problem with buying from pet shops?
 
It is sad the way some pet shops treat the animals and I personally try to avoid them, but its not the animals fault. Its a shame you felt you had to keep it a secret Deb incase made a personal issue of it. I have no problem with people who choose to get their pets from stores... its personal choice and I have done it in the past when I was a child. Thank you for your honesty.
 
Isnt it weird that the only people who seem to have a problem with it are the same people that go on RU. And people wonder why I felt I needed to lie about it!

Simbas happy and healthy and isnt stuck in a tiny hutch outside in the cold, surely thats the main thing.
 
hopperhaven said:
I recently took three guineas in from someone who was breeding for the Wilson's where Debs bought this little chap. Two of them were in such a bad state that they can not be rehomed. They had fathered litters that had all died and killed the sows in the process. They needed vet treatment and were no longer earning their keep, so they were given to me. Of course the sows didn't survive to get rescued :'(

Now what is the problem with buying from pet shops?
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lol depends if its P@h or not ( but the first pigs I had i got from there and love the lil ones to bits)
 
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Isnt it weird that the only people who seem to have a problem with it are the same people that go on RU.
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Maybe that's because it was on RU that you offered a home to the rescue pig and he was then reserved for you and you appealed for help getting him to you and he lost out on another home because he was kept for you and then you decided to buy one instead?

Nothing wrong with buying one imo, Simba needed a home as much as any pig, it was letting the rescue down that's been the issue I think. Anyway, what's done is done, and I'm glad Simba's got a good home with you.
 
kayjay said:
@Debs111 said:
Isnt it weird that the only people who seem to have a problem with it are the same people that go on RU.
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Maybe that's because it was on RU that you offered a home to the rescue pig and he was then reserved for you and you appealed for help getting him to you and he lost out on another home because he was kept for you and then you decided to buy one instead?
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Thats what i was going to say :) :) :), but put much more eloquently ;D
 
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