OH NO! You adopted from Susan. The same animal control officer in charge of this rescue is the one doing the welfare check and follow-up on Susan.
"(hmmmm... how bad was/is it?)..." From what I understand, pretty bad.
Susan scouts the shows and takes pigs the breeders don´t want: breeder culls. (Anti-breeding? Yeah right.) She has way too many pigs for what she can afford and the conditions are bad. She was going to rent an airport locker and move her rescues out there after animal control got on her case (confirmed from two sources). No one (except animal control) gets to go to her house. She comes to you. She does adoption days in the pet store chains that SELL GUINEA PIGS! Hello???
Did you notice she´s not listed on the rescue list on Cavy Rescue?
This was part of a completely unsolicited email I received from someone who ran into her at one of the pet stores:
She had guineas in what reminded me of trapping cages. They were 8 - 10" tall about the width of a few guineas, metal, and she had them stuffed full of guineas.
They had no water no food, the shaving they were pine or some other light color wood chip, with a few strands of grass. I also noticed something that might be due to neglect, their poop was an odd color orange. I´ve never seen any poop that color come from my guineas. Also one was missing fur from it´s lower hind quarters. The other animals looked almost drugged.
I hope my call to the Humane Society will do some help. I will follow up with you and let you know what becomes of the inquiry.
I won´t repeat the physical description. And then there was also this:
she didn´t give me her name, but she did bristle at the mention of your name and cavy spirit.
Big surprise. I believe the trapping-type cages he´s referring to are the standard breeder transport and show storage cages. I don´t know their official term for them. Just go to one show, you´ll see what I mean.
I could tell you more. Hopefully you get the idea. Heart in the right place. Bad execution. Of course, I feel the same way about myself the vast majority of the time.
Also, there are several breeders listed for Hollister, just FYI.
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I´ve got tears in my eyes just reading and looking at the pictures....
