upset with pets at home

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I never go into my local pah but heard they had started an adoption scheme so went in to have a nosey. THere was a male guinea pig in there about 6mths old living alone and when i started talking to the assistant about possibly pairing him up with a baby so he had a cage mate i was told that guinea pigs over 4mths old cannot be paired up as they will kill each other 98). I told him i had succesfully paired up male guinea pigs before and that i kept a trio of boars and he told me that guinea pig welfare associations say they cannot pair up adult boars. I asked how long he had been there and they said he was ex stock and that he had been in since a baby. I asked to hold him and got him out of the cage myself as he was wild. But as soon as he was in my arms he settled down and eventually started purring. The assistant then told me he had been living out the back with a rabbit for the last few mths :'(. When i was holding him i noticed he had a forth claw on his back foot that was hanging off! pah have said they will take him to the vets today. i too soft and couldnt leave him there so I'm picking him up after hes been to the vets. I'm going to wait a few weeks to see what his personalitys like then try introducing a cage mate. I cant believe that there giving out crap advice, keeping guineas with rabbits out the back, have a animal for 5mths that they didnt notice had an extra claw thats hanging off and using there adoption scheme to get rid of old stock. Sorry for the rant I'm just soooo mad!!
 
What an 98)
Glad you will be giving him a nice new home...please post pics when he has settled :smitten:
 
That's really bad. Poor little thing... :'(
I haven't been to P@H in years but last time I went they kept all the piggies with rabbits. is that still the case?
 
Well done you O0 let us know how you get on :smitten:
 
Fools! Yes it probably is easier to pair up babes but that doesn't mean to say that an older pig can't have a friend!

Let us know how the little one settles in!

Louise
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atleast you got him out off there, good luck for future and i hope he settles in well and becomes friends with another boar. P@H in preston are just as bad every time i go in i always see rabbits and guineas housed togther. they dont give out very good signals to new pet owners :tickedoff:
 
Grrrrrr poor wee man! P@H can be so useless they told me not to pair my eight week old baby that I had, had for only three days as he would fight with it, he was paired up with a 8 month old male a week later and they get on like a house on fire.

Good luck with the new little fellow, so pleased that you were able offer him a home.
 
No what makes it worse is that they have seperated pigs and buns in the shop and its only out the back there keeping them together still so they cant even claim its through ignorance. They know its wrong and they hide it. I'm never going to be able to go in there again iv already got 7 guinea pigs but just couldnt leave him there alone where he was going to be taken on by some well meaning person following crap advice to live alone. plus the fact hes wild so someone with no experiance probably wouldnt want him or wouldnt be able to handle him. They had also placed him right in the back so that people had to walk past all the babies to get to him. They had a sign on his cage saying he was a fully grown adult guinea pig and the reason he was looking for a new home was because he had grown too big for his cage. :tickedoff:
 
That is ridiculous, idiots! That is most of the issue isn't it? When pet shops give the wrong advise what hope is there for new piggie owners?
Well done for taking him in! Let us know how you get on.

Laure
 
my friend bought a bunny on friday and wasnt told anything, and they sold her a tiny cage telling her it was fine because the bunny wouldnt grow because its 10 weeks old.
 
Does anyone else P@H have that four section system? Male guineas in one male rabbits in another female guineas in one more and female rabbits in the last with unlockable doors between the males of both species and only a home (hutch) in the rabbits end...

I have a theory that they just open the doors when the shop closes and seperae them in the morning :-\ Why else would they only have the hutches in one area and a unlockable gate :-\

Maybe just mine though and my theory could be mad :-X
 
gp-d said:
Does anyone else P@H have that four section system? Male guineas in one male rabbits in another female guineas in one more and female rabbits in the last with unlockable doors between the males of both species and only a home (hutch) in the rabbits end...

I have a theory that they just open the doors when the shop closes and seperae them in the morning :-\ Why else would they only have the hutches in one area and a unlockable gate :-\

Maybe just mine though and my theory could be mad :-X
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gp-d, thats EXACTLY how our local P@H house their buns and pigs.
 
P@H in preston have a circle split into two semi circles, boy rabbits in one and girls in other and then two smaller squares for guinea pigs and any rabbits which cant live with other rabbits go in with guineas. >:(
 
In one of the Norwich stores they still have piggies and buns together in same run... :tickedoff:
 
Warrinton P@H isn't too bad, they have the circle split intwo for rabbits, a hutch in both sides.
Then in a completely seperate part of the shop, pens for boy guineas and girl guineas.
One of the girls who works there has her own guinea pigs and gave me some advice when we got our two.
Anne. :)
 
Send an email to customer services - chances are that head office don't know that your store is doing such a retarded thing. Once you tell them, they can go kick their ass and hopefully they'll stop.
 
I got one of my pigs from a p@h 'rescue centre'. I asked where they'd rescued her from, and they said they didn't, but couldn't sell her. When I asked why, I was told it was because she's 'ugly'. They also had a suspicion she was pregnant. I couldn't leave her there, so I took her home. She's far from ugly, and turned out she wasn't pregant, just a little bloated. She was probably undernourished. She's healthy and happy now though.
Bristol p@h keeps all the rabbits and pigs seperated with gates, but they sometimes leave the gates open, so they mix.
I did overhear a sales assistant refuse to sell a guinea pig to a lady who intended to house it with a rabbit though, so they must have policies about it.
 
Alfie said:
Warrinton P@H isn't too bad, they have the circle split intwo for rabbits, a hutch in both sides.
Then in a completely seperate part of the shop, pens for boy guineas and girl guineas.
Anne. :)
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My Pets at Home in Scunthorpe is the same as yours only recently have they separated the piggies and bunnies like this though.
 
I m in Bristol Damonismyslave O0 and ive witnessed lots of things in our P & H they have improved but still not happy.

Some know there stuff others dont.
 
Last time I went to a Pets at Home the rabbits and guinea pigs where seperate, but I don't tend to shop there anymore O0
 
Damonshumanslave said:
When I asked why, I was told it was because she's 'ugly'.
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Similar thing with him apparently his "cute" brothers had all found homes as babies. I'm not getting him till 2morrow now because they couldnt get him into the vet till then tho i suspect they will prob just snip his claw off themselves. I'm just feeling really fed up now. They told me they re homed a lone boar last wek through the scheme that had been there mths and i just know there will be another one waiting out the back to replace the one I'm taking. Feel like whats the point? There just using this whole adoption scheme to sell animals at a discounted price. It actyally says on his adoption papers reason for rehoming and they have put fully grown. Makes you wonder what they did with these animals before the adoption scheme.
 
Ashford (In Kent) recently got a P@H and to be honest they seem to do a good job. The buns have a massive glass enclosure which is deep enough so morons cant get to them.

As for the piggies, they have a smaller area but have a bundle of hay to hide in and also a little wooden home (no windows just an entrance/exit).

We got our Corona from their and was looking at another but when we was looking she was holding one and I asked to hold the sow myself. She said its against company policy in case I drop her. Whats the difference between me (a now experienced handler of piggies) and some saturday girl who likes pets? If a piggie is gonna squirm, it doesnt care if someone is in uniform or not.
I merely wanted to hold the sow to see what she was like, calm, curious or a little rascal. Decided against it in the end and came home to spoil our other 5 :smitten:

Havent seen any up for adoption yet but I will keep an eye out.

Also they mentioned harsh new measures to make sure all pets are going to the right home. Those measures are? Taking your name and address :-\ Wow, I felt grilled! And what if I happened to be one of those sickos who feeds live piggies to snakes just so i can film it to put on you tube and laugh like a moron?

Sorry but I read in another thread about you tube and done a search, couldnt believe the amount of videos that came up. Also felt sick, just glad I didnt click on one... wish I could swear here...
 
archieismybaby, do you go to eastville or filton?
I actually went for a job interview at the filton one, and had a look around out the back. There's hundreds of animals out there, waiting for their to be room on the shop floor for them! A lady came in with 13 baby rats (unwanted litter, apparently) and asked p@h to put the in the rescue centre bit. I think people who have animals that need rehoming should stick to real rescue centres.
 
I'm banned from most of them ! ::) just cant keep my :-X !

I went to one the other day and a woman had brought a boar the weekened before from them but then she had been on some websites and read that they should have a friend... but the assistant said to the woman that boars had to be on their own as they fight until death but they could live with a dwarf lop as they were small rabbits..
erm.. since when? 98)

So i marched straight out to the carpark and gave her my number and she took on one of my rescue boars 3 days later- apart from the first bit of chattering for half an hour the pairing went smoothly and she rang last night to say they were cuddled up in their tunnel together and that the first pig now comes out for food rather than hiding, shes also got them in a new indoor enclosure (dithed the 3' hutch) O0

So sorry P@H but once again you almost gave another guinea pig a boring solitary life!
 
As its said in a few stores that boars have to live alone i wonder if its their policy? I suspect whats really happened is they have been told they cant put a load of new babies in with adults that have been there a long time because they will fight and they are getting this confused with proper introductions at home.
 
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