[wendys treasurenook]

Just a bit of information for you. When I purchased my four piggies at the pet store (Petsmart) I never thought to question their capabilities, so I got my four piggies and brought them home. They were all housed together in super sized cages, we make them ourselves. A few months later, we find out that two of the pigs we bought are girls and yes, they both were pregnant. They said they only housed and sold boy guinea pigs. I was livid. I called the manager of our local petsmart and the only response I got was that they would take the babies once they were born if I wanted them to. They said they would send them back to the breeder until they got big enough to sell (yeah right). They acted like it was a common occurance and no big deal. My children and I and of course our piggies went through alot of stress. We had to build seperate cages for the girls and boys, find homes for some of the babies and one of the babies were stillborn. My children cried and cried because we couldn't keep all the babies, but we already had two other pigs besides the four we had gotten at the petstore. It was such a stressfull event and The pet store didn't bat an eye, or care one bit. I have learned not to buy guinea pigs, but adopt them instead because the pet store don't know anymore than I do about guinea pigs. They are not specialists, they are just ordinary people, who don't care and don't know much about pigs themselves. I was very displeased that I had to learn things the hard way. Hope this helps somone else out and they won't make the same mistake I made.