Can I Just Rant About People Not Taking Advice?

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Squidgypigs

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Sigh. This past few weeks I've been asked several questions about pregnant sows and baby pigs (and other general pig care questions) by a few people, only to discover the majority haven't listened at all.

Fathers to be board are still being kept with heavily pregnant sows (sometimes reintroduced a couple of times a week for playtime...) and then they ask why the sow seems stressed and doesn't come out her pigloo.

Babies left til 6 or even 8 weeks with mum then they wonder why baby girls are pregnant.

I offer advice to go to the vets when sows go off their food in late pregnancy, but nobody ever has the money for that. Sow and babies die.

And then there was somebody with a pig in a hamster ball...

I'm finding it all very demoralising.
 
I'm assuming this isn't on here @Squidgypigs ?
I'm still a member of a number of other groups and forums but I seldom post for pretty much the same reasons you've spelled out above. The mods, admins and many members on sites give sound advice, recommendations and education but sadly there is still so much ignorance of the needs and welfare of Guinea pigs. It's also a sad fact that often time the great advice is challenged, criticised and undermined or simply ignored. One of the many joys of this forum is that there are so many experienced cavy keepers willing to offer their support and advice and that people asking for advice on the whole seem to take it on board. We can't force people to take our advice or to act responsibly. All we can do is to be there to keep trying to educate people and to offer support that may improve the lives of these piggies.
 
VickiA said:
I'm assuming this isn't on here @Squidgypigs ?
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No thank goodness not here. I will actually edit post so that it doesn't read like that. I'm talking about "real life" and elsewhere online, and yes I agree with your points.

Also I'm not directing this at people who do things in ignorance, rather those that ask for help from numerous sources then ignore it.

I'm clearly just a bit demoralised today. Thank you for replying :-)

Edited to add: apparently I cannot edit my first post. So I'll just reiterate my point here ;-)
 
Agree with all of the above, its incredibly hard to watch and listen to some folk who ask about one thing and then ignore anything or advice given. I just have to shut up and close my mind to it. Say the words which you know they don't want to hear because it means a couple of things a) it will cost them b) time on their part c) effort and actual thinking with an action at the end of it.
 
Did all of this happen on the Facebook groups? I gave up on them last week. It's so stressful.
 
It's a kind of cognitive bias, they'll ask for help in order to be seen to do the right thing, but any advice contrary to what they're already doing will be rejected or reinterpreted to affirm their present method of doing things.
 
Falken said:
It's a kind of cognitive bias, they'll ask for help in order to be seen to do the right thing, but any advice contrary to what they're already doing will be rejected or reinterpreted to affirm their present method of doing things.
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I think you may have hit the nail on the head, completely!

Thank you to everyone who replied.
 
I have ranted about a friend's boy piggies that ultimately died and my sister's rabbits that she lost within a week of each other, two in the same day.They weren't neglecting them enough for rspca reporting but enough for them not to survive.My sister then had the cheek to have a go at me for giving her next door neighbour the option of taking on a rabbit that needed a home and not her.I advised both on proper animal care and neither took any notice.
 
I don't think that if people wont listen to what other people say then they have to take the consiquences
If they get more animals and still wont listen to what your trying to tell them, why ask for advice in the 1st place?!?!
 
I know the feeling, last year I advised someone I knew that her two rabbits could do with more space and advised what would be suitable. They upgraded their hutch but it's still not big enough. Now the kids have 'got bored' and they were rehomed.
The same at work, advised a lady what rabbits need (And I do NOT know that much about rabbits tbh) and they just ignored it.
Lots of times I've been on facebook groups and advised how big a cage needs to for piggies or that boar trios are not suitable etc and you either get critised or ignored. I know I'm not an expert and I'm learning all the time too but I'm 32 and been keeping pigs since I was 3 so I like to hope I have a bit of knowledge by now! It's so frustrating sometimes I have to look the other way otherwise I'd end up in a corner rocking!
 
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