Galaxy&nibbles
Adult Guinea Pig
the truth, it was awful! I don't know where to start. And I ask please please don't judge me for still bringing a boy home!
I'll start with the good point.. The guinea pigs all seemed and looked happy and healthy (they made happy squeaks anyway) and the hutches look clean and so the bottles..
The bad points
Over crowded isn't even the right word. There were lots of tiny little hutches some with 4 pigs in each. Maybe even more. As one lady walked out she had a tube that looked as if it had been smeared with poo. The box for bonding was one of those fold up crates and at one point my poor roddy was in there with another 3 babies. (I'm someone that can't speak my mind) I was horrified but I just couldn't say or do anything. Though I sutbly pointed out that oh he is a no no in a jokey way so she would take one away, and so on.. One thing that horrified me is she said if they fight, you just have to leave them to get on with it...WHAT? She swaps the piggies around willy nilly, so poor things probably fight all the time! So anyway, because one I couldn't say anything,two I'm desperate for a friend for roddy and three I needed to rescue myself atleast one poor piggy from this I have bought home a beautiful ginger boy supposedly 7 weeks old, though he's nearly as big as roddy so not convinced. As I was leaving she said, oh I'll just spray him with this in case he's got mites? You mean you don't check? And then picked roddy up and said he needs some so they smell the same! I'm just so lost at what Ive seen, those poor piggies! I don't know apart from the size of the hutches if it's something the rspca would look into? I'm worried that something might be wrong with this current one (though she did say she quarentines them), that he and roddy might not get on in a few days, what kind of a life these others still there are going to have. I kind of feel traumatised, and feel terrible for staying and not Saying anything but I don't have the confidence to just leave or say what I honk. The good thing that's come out of it though is that I have rescued atleast one the guinea pigs there.
Sorry for the long post I just feel lost, sad, anxious etc
I'll start with the good point.. The guinea pigs all seemed and looked happy and healthy (they made happy squeaks anyway) and the hutches look clean and so the bottles..
The bad points
Over crowded isn't even the right word. There were lots of tiny little hutches some with 4 pigs in each. Maybe even more. As one lady walked out she had a tube that looked as if it had been smeared with poo. The box for bonding was one of those fold up crates and at one point my poor roddy was in there with another 3 babies. (I'm someone that can't speak my mind) I was horrified but I just couldn't say or do anything. Though I sutbly pointed out that oh he is a no no in a jokey way so she would take one away, and so on.. One thing that horrified me is she said if they fight, you just have to leave them to get on with it...WHAT? She swaps the piggies around willy nilly, so poor things probably fight all the time! So anyway, because one I couldn't say anything,two I'm desperate for a friend for roddy and three I needed to rescue myself atleast one poor piggy from this I have bought home a beautiful ginger boy supposedly 7 weeks old, though he's nearly as big as roddy so not convinced. As I was leaving she said, oh I'll just spray him with this in case he's got mites? You mean you don't check? And then picked roddy up and said he needs some so they smell the same! I'm just so lost at what Ive seen, those poor piggies! I don't know apart from the size of the hutches if it's something the rspca would look into? I'm worried that something might be wrong with this current one (though she did say she quarentines them), that he and roddy might not get on in a few days, what kind of a life these others still there are going to have. I kind of feel traumatised, and feel terrible for staying and not Saying anything but I don't have the confidence to just leave or say what I honk. The good thing that's come out of it though is that I have rescued atleast one the guinea pigs there.
Sorry for the long post I just feel lost, sad, anxious etc