where do you get your pigs?

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Aww it's so special when you see the sides of the female moving and you know life is in there!

Just taken a peek at the pictures - Blaze, Pumpkin and Flash and gorgeous. I love their little crests. Treacle too looks stunning, her dark brown colour is lovely (all my piggers are closer to ginger brown than really chocolate brown). As for Bumble she really looks like my girl Pickle just with a little more silver and little less white! :smitten: I'm quite partial to agoutis!
 
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We got 2 of our guinea pigs (sows) we've had a year from this place called 'twy cross zoo' which is a zoo PLUS a pet place
We got the boar(neuted) thats with the sows from this lady down kent, her guinea pig had just 1 baby and we got him :smitten:
And blossom and treacle we got them off a lady, so we could rescue them and care for them and now blossoms had her babies we're waiting for treacle to pop too!
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Hamish and Bumble came from white post farm you ninny not twycross zoo they do not sell animals ;D Rimmer our boar came from my friend Kay down in Kent. Blossom and Treacle are rescue girls both came to us pregnant. Blossom had four babies one died at two days old. Treacle did not look pregnant when she came to us but is getting a big girl now.
 
I have 14 now :)

Some have come from pet shops, rehomed from guinearehome, one from a 'friend' who didn't want them, and some from pregnancies :)
 
I have 5 :)

Wilson and Angus are from the same petshop... and Cindy is from a different petshop :)
The 2 babies are obviously from Cindy's tummy ;D
 
I bought my 2 from Wilson's in Kiddiminster.Wilson's is very similar to Pets at Home but only have shops in Worcestershire. They started out as a family run business. Much nicer shops than P@H. I did loadsa research and there are no rescue centres or breeders any where near me at all. So I rung around to see if they had the colour/sex/breed I was looking for and they had one. I had to drive quite a way to get there but it was worth it. They were a great help. O0
 
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I bought my 2 from Wilson's in Kiddiminster.Wilson's is very similar to Pets at Home but only have shops in Worcestershire. They started out as a family run business. Much nicer shops than P@H. I did loadsa research and there are no rescue centres or breeders any where near me at all. So I rung around to see if they had the colour/sex/breed I was looking for and they had one. I had to drive quite a way to get there but it was worth it. They were a great help. O0
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Ooh mine are from there too! When did you get yours? What colours/sex? I might have seen them, I live in Kiddy and am always up at Wilsons! Whereabouts are you from then?
 
I'm from Herefordshire. I bought my piggies on June 19th 2006 and they were 8 weeks old. They were never out and about in the run in the shop. They must have just come in cos I went into a back room where they had a hutch full of them. They also had mice/gerbils in that room too. Think they were in their 'quarentine' period! I was in there before anybody else had seen them.

They are both sows. Ruby I guess is a Saffron smooth self with ruby red eyes and Dilys is a golden smooth self with dark eyes I think.... although coming from pet shops you never really know if they are pure breds or not.
 
Ah right. Aww they sound gorgeous!
Simba was out on display in the first run, but Nala & Kiara were also out the back in a hutch. I've been in that room before to see their rats before they've gone on display. The rooms very over crowded isnt it!
 
Do you know where they get their 'supply' of piggies from? I would love to know a bit about their background. I know our Pets At Home have their supplier down in Dorset which i think is an awfully long way for baby piggies (or any of the baby furries) to travel from. Bless 'them. A bit cruel when they've just been separated from their mums. A bit of an ordeal to go thru. :(
 
i have 2 boys, reggie and ramone - the first place i would have gone to was a petshop like notcutts or pets at home but the day after i decided we were going to get guinea pigs i found out my nutritional therapists guinea pig was pregnant - so i waited weeks till i got my boys

i think if i got any more i would probably look in a rescue, i didnt think of them as an option until i came on this website

Laura
 
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Do you know where they get their 'supply' of piggies from? I would love to know a bit about their background. I know our Pets At Home have their supplier down in Dorset which i think is an awfully long way for baby piggies (or any of the baby furries) to travel from. Bless 'them. A bit cruel when they've just been separated from their mums. A bit of an ordeal to go thru. :(
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Do you think they would all make it? It would be very stressful :(
 
miss piggy said:
I'm from Herefordshire. I bought my piggies on June 19th 2006 and they were 8 weeks old. They were never out and about in the run in the shop. They must have just come in cos I went into a back room where they had a hutch full of them. They also had mice/gerbils in that room too. Think they were in their 'quarentine' period! I was in there before anybody else had seen them.

They are both sows. Ruby I guess is a Saffron smooth self with ruby red eyes and Dilys is a golden smooth self with dark eyes I think.... although coming from pet shops you never really know if they are pure breds or not.
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I'm going hereford this weekend, great place O0 i love it! Don't like the new road works to the new asda though, tis abit mucked up
 
miss piggy said:
Do you know where they get their 'supply' of piggies from? I would love to know a bit about their background. I know our Pets At Home have their supplier down in Dorset which i think is an awfully long way for baby piggies (or any of the baby furries) to travel from. Bless 'them. A bit cruel when they've just been separated from their mums. A bit of an ordeal to go thru. :(
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Got no idea I'm afraid. Would be nice to know! I know they get people bringing animals in, probably private breeders. I was there once when a woman bought a box full of budgies in. And when I went to collect Simba, with my carrier, someone came upto me (one of the staff) asking what I'd bought with me, thinking I was bringing them 'stock'.
 
I did an internet search to find a breeder local to me - great breeder she sold me a sow and boar as two boars! The babies are lovely though and they are well cute, going to post some pics on Wed when they are two weeks old - hopefully then their sex will be clearer!

Nicky xx
 
miss piggy said:
I know our Pets At Home have their supplier down in Dorset which i think is an awfully long way for baby piggies (or any of the baby furries) to travel from. Bless 'them. A bit cruel when they've just been separated from their mums. A bit of an ordeal to go thru. :(
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When we got our boar Rimmer he was just six weeks old. He was collected for us from Kent which was a three hour drive up to Nottingham. It was a long Journey for him he had food and water and was fine. Ali loves piggies boyfriend picked him up for me and stopped a couple of times to give him a cuddle on the way.
The piggies from pets at home would be vet checked on arrival at the store before they go into the sale pens.
 
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