The problem with looking at Rescue sites

[MommaPiggy]

8... Don't you just want to call up and say you'll take all of their small animals?

I was looking at the "Little Valley Animal" shelter website, so see if they had a lone male piggy and I see Ferrets, Hamsters, Bunnies and Rats all needing homes...I just can't help but go "Awwwww~" when I see them and I wish I could just save them all! @)

Does that make me crazy?

I need to win the lottery and buy a mansion with acres and acres of land just for abandoned animals xx>>>

But it is so sad. Especially for Hamsters. I had a Hammy that lived 3 years and she was the longest living one I had (Which is odd considering she also got pregnant and had babies while she was living with me. Sexing gone wrong! It was terrible! But she still lived longer than all the others!) ...Generally the others died within 1-2 years...So it makes me sad to see Hamsters on their site. 8... Because there's no way anyone could have had them for that long.

 

[Wiebke]

I've gone from one girl (and possibly another) for Llewelyn to four new girls since joining the forum in spring... Says it all!

Mind you, I could run my own rescue with all the pigs I would have liked to adopt as well!

 

[Millie's-Mummy]

Its horrible what ppl do to animlas.
I dont understand how ppl can rehome hammies.
My 1st ever hammy was joey who i took on when he was 3 and lived til he was 5.
It broke my heart to see him go but he went in my hands with me telling him i loved him loads and is now buried I'm my flannel under the rose bush in my mum's garden along with a few birds.
We now have another rescued hammy called Ting.
I try not to look on rescue sites as it breaks my heart :0

 

[lindsay7]

I'm just the same only this week in our local paper have been abandoned kittens and guinea pigs makes me just want them all.

Going to the Bunny Camp in bradford a week on sunday to their open day and i know i will want to fetch a van load of them back.

 

[MommaPiggy]

It makes me happy to know that we all think alike xx>>>

I just can't believe it.
I know that times are hard but...My brother once told me, if he was running out of money...He'd rather sell his cars than give up his Guinea Pigs..And my brother is a real car maniac, he's into his flash cars and fast wheels and all that jazz...So for him to say that, I just think "How can other people give up members of their family?"
I know situations cause problems but too much of it is people just not wanting their animals anymore.

You'd never put your children up for adoption because you're a little short on cash ;.; so why give up your animals.
I couldn't do it. I'd rather go without food and see my Guineas get fed, rather than give them up.

 

[stargrrlclaire]

i'd rather live on dry bread and water than give up my pets

 

[Wiebke]

I think it is really hard on those people who lose their home due to the recession and are not allowed pets in their new home; there are genuine people around as well, let's not forget that!

 

[Briony_S]

That is a good point some people simply can no longer afford them do to a change in circumstance beyond their control.

Anyone of us could lose their job at any moment and struggle with bills etc.. and have to give our piggies up! It would be terrible but that shouldn't mean we are not allowed them in the first place as noone knows what could happen in the future!

 

[MrsM]

back on topic....

I am the same when look at rehoming sites. I just want them ALL. But I simply can't. I have to consider cost, time and space and I am really short on 2 and totally lacking on 3 so I am just resigned to my little lot of 2 lovely pigs.

off topic - there's the rainbow bridge that ALWAYS make me cry, so I don't look anymore unless it's someone's piggy whom I know.

 

[piggiepaws]

I keep looking at the rehoming pages on this site, guinea pigs are sooooo cute that I can see something lovely in every little furry face that goes on there, if I had the space and the money I'm sure i'd end up having a santuary of some kind, full to the brim!

Its sad that people cant keep their pets (some genuine, but lots not), however I always think if the poor animal has made it to rescue its at least got a good chance of getting a loving home. There must be millions of pets out there all alone caged up suffering from neglect, or have been 'released' into the wild which is just condoning it to suffering/painfull death.

off thread...

MrsM... I have sat here at nighttime and looked at rainbow bridge and burst into tears at every little piggie pic.... i dont look now, not because I'm hard but because I'm too soft!

 

[saralou]

i know how * feel at the mment i take in guinea pigs and find them homes only on small scale..i love hammys ive had that problem i bought a female though i will get another 1 then 1 day found 10 babys they all found homes but no 1 keeped in contact with me apart fom my nan who had 1 tom he is now 4 and still as livly as ever...great minds think alike I'm looking at mansions on net...only if thou....

 

[teadragon]

I made the mistake of looking at the SSPCA's rehoming page.

So many of them are so near but... but...

 

[kikipon]

You'd never put your children up for adoption because you're a little short on cash ;.; so why give up your animals.
I couldn't do it. I'd rather go without food and see my Guineas get fed, rather than give them up.

That's the sad thing, most of the people who give up animals away just think "oh this is so easy, they will get a new home anyway" and just think them as animals, not part of the family
It breaks my heart to see animals, that have been left outside in the leed to die or just in boxes. I couldn't ever put my little boys in a box and leave them on a street! wouldn't you think it would be best for them to get a new home than just leave them to die? 8...
And I have been looking at rescue piggies ever since I got the permission to get gp's for myself and now I just want more and more and become a crazy guinea pig lady -c wish I could just turn our livingroom to a piggy room!

 

[MommaPiggy]

Yes!

Crazy cat ladies are a thing of the past.
Crazy Guinea ladies are a thing of the future! And we're not sexist, either. There shall be Crazy Guinea men, too :<>