Fun Question: Where Did You Get Your Piggie?

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Now that I'm interested in looking for a cagemate for my little piggie, I wanted to ask around & get some stories about where you guys got your little lovebugs. Did you go to the pet store? A breeder? A rescue? I'd love to know!

Thanks!
 
my first two were rescues
Peter was rescue but found him through this website
Jemima I thought was rescue but she was bred in rescue
 
my first two were rescues
Peter was rescue but found him through this website
Jemima I thought was rescue but she was bred in rescue
 
Priscilla Walsall RSPCA vis this forum and was part of a big rescue with her friend Amber who has sadly passed on. The older girls were not so easy to rehome and had come over from Norfolk.

Marmaduke ditto. He isn't my normal rescue because he was young and hansom and I'm sure he would have had plenty of offers. But we'd just lost amber and I fell in love with his pictures.

Stella and Guiness were preloved piggies whose owners had lost interest. Someone posted about them, they were really local to me and the thought of two five year old girl unwanted just togged at my heartstrings.

Of the others Radar the degu Coventry RSPCA as we needed a friend for our girl since passed away and noone wanted a degu with no tail.

Basil the chinchilla was 11 and in Coventry rspcas small animal shed late autumn and again an elderly chinchilla is difficult to rehome and I didn't like the thought of him spending the winter in a shed at that age with a heart murmor - even a big, clean heated one. He's now 14.

Fidgit was borrowed from someone on a forum who'd taken her as a rescue to live with my neutered male with teeth problems. He sadly only made it a couple of months but she somehow stayed and that was over 6 years ago and she is now 13.
 
I've never done rescues before, do you often find only older guineas in those? After losing I'm chipotle at 7 I'm afraid to get an older one only to lose it soon..maybe that's just because I haven't looked yet. I'd probably fall in love with any of them, I'm just scared to get an older one. :(
 
Well I can't speak for the rescues in your area but I have to say that I rarely have pigs over 2 years old here - and nearly always have very young pigs as so many females come in pregnant - at the moment the youngest are 6 weeks and the oldest 2 years and every age in between.

Suzy x
 
katzintheclouds said:
I've never done rescues before, do you often find only older guineas in those? After losing I'm chipotle at 7 I'm afraid to get an older one only to lose it soon..maybe that's just because I haven't looked yet. I'd probably fall in love with any of them, I'm just scared to get an older one. :(
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I don't know what the situation is like in the US but of all my rescues, the oldest was about 3 (we're not exactly sure how old she is... but she had lost her friend and was a free to a good home piggy - you can definitely tell that she's older than the rest of them though!), the next one was 18 months old at adoption. The others were all (I think) around or under a year old and were either paired with a friend of the same age, were young neutered males or mums with their daughters/two of the sons paired together. Most of the pigs I looked at when choosing my piggies were, as Suzy said, under 2 years old.

I think it'd be worth ringing around the centres local to you and seeing what they have!
 
After one of my first shop bought couple of sows promptly had surprise babies (which I sadly couldn't hang onto and had to rehome through a rescue), I have gone strictly reputable rescue since - and have not rued it 21 rescue piggies and several years later (15 of whom are still with me)! I couldn't think of a better place to get a new guaranteed healthy, well bonded and not pregnant piggy from! There is also nothing like the joy when a piggy discovers that paradise is real - and it is for keeps!

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I got all 6 of my piggies from rescues on this forum
Ralphie and Oreo from Becklen
Sooty and Sweepy from Sokel
Ben and Jeremey from Clairlove

x) x) x) x) x)

Love them all, they are my fab boys x
 
katzintheclouds said:
I've never done rescues before, do you often find only older guineas in those? After losing I'm chipotle at 7 I'm afraid to get an older one only to lose it soon..maybe that's just because I haven't looked yet. I'd probably fall in love with any of them, I'm just scared to get an older one. :(
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Three out of my four girls came from rescue. Eleanor was one year old, Erin six weeks and Ena four weeks
 
Wiebke said:
After one of my first shop bought couple of sows promptly had surprise babies (which I sadly couldn't hang onto and had to rehome through a rescue), I have gone strictly reputable rescue since - and have not rued it 21 rescue piggies and several years later (15 of whom are still with me)! I couldn't think of a better place to get a new guaranteed healthy, well bonded and not pregnant piggy from! There is also nothing like the joy when a piggy discovers that paradise is real - and it is for keeps!

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What an amazing picture!I love it :)
 
katzintheclouds said:
I've never done rescues before, do you often find only older guineas in those? After losing I'm chipotle at 7 I'm afraid to get an older one only to lose it soon..maybe that's just because I haven't looked yet. I'd probably fall in love with any of them, I'm just scared to get an older one. :(
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My two rescue pigs were both less than a year old when I got them. Boris was about 6 or 7 months old and Hettie was still a baby at about 14 weeks or so :)

Also, Boris is by far the most laid-back out of my Gang
 
i got my current two from a rescue, my previous two from a rescue and my first one sadly came on his own from a pet shop, but i didnt get him my friend did thinking it was ok, i have educated her now.

My two current dogs are from rescue, my previous two dogs were from rescue.

Also, my little baby hammy is from rescue.

Can you see a pattern? :))
 
my boar is a rescue (neutered)

the three girls well two as I shamfully wanted a rex I found a nice lady with two youngsters (where I got the hutch from) also happened to have an abby (and crested but the crested was going to a friend of theirs) I fell in love with them but unexpedidly the abby was up the duff so I had the only baby from her pregnacy which happened to be a female.

The previous piggies were all rescues when I had them before

My dog is a rescue as well
 
My first two boys were from a tiny little pet shop in the village where our caravan is sited and they fuelled our passion for piggies.
Two more little boys came from a rescue, then two little sows.
Four baby girls came from a pet supplies store, someone was trying to sell them to the owner that doesn't sell pets mallethead so we took them in and they live as a herd now.
Three little girls came from a retired breeder whom I persuaded to hand over to me as they are the Himalayan breed and I worried they'd get into the wrong hands ?/
That completes our piggy family of 15 x)
 
A pet shop.

Local shelters, even PAWS, only have cats and dogs. Looking up "guinea pig adoption philippines" shows links to pages that have "adoption" on the title but if you read the content, they're actually breeding and selling the little ones :(
 
My first 2 female guinea pigs who I got in december were from mosschops rescue, I found out about the place from becoming a member on this forum:) I'm so glad I got my girls from a lovely rescue it made me so happy to know that they would a forever loving home for christmasx)
 
All of my past pigs have been from a pet shop. McMac was a suprise my mum brought home from P@H. Then I was worried he was lonely so I went and bought my dearest Momo from a local pet shop. I didn't bond them properly so they didn't get on amazingly but they would still play together and sit next to eachother when they were in a good mood.
 
I got my first guinea pig, Daisy, from a hobbyist breeder and my second piggie, Minnow, from a Petshop.
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I don't regret getting my girls, however I wish I had stayed clear from petshops/breeders and gone for a reputable rescue.
I would urge you to get your piggies from a rescue because there are so many lovely piggies who need home and they are just as beautiful, maybe even more so, than the specifically bred ones.
I plan on getting my next piggie from a rescue :)) x
 
Snowball & Cookie were from a local pet shop. We didn't plan to get Snowball but we instantly fell in love and knew we would take proper care of him, as his hair is hard work and his had many skin problems and still is.

Then we tried to rescue two pigs which fell through.

Then we bought Bonnie & Lottie from a breeder BUT she rescues rabbits & guinea pigs too. We saw them and the parents of Bonnie & Lottie and looked healthy.
I don't regret having our piggies from these places. But in the future i would love to rescue as i believe its very rewarding. We never thought about rescuing before until we found this forum!
 
My current piggies
Wibble came from a rescue in Norfolk.
Pollyanna previous owner did not collect her from the vets.
Genghis was sold to a friend as a female (pets@home) but is clearly a male.
Skittles and Chquers are from the adoption section of pets@home.
Marmite came from a friend who had a litter of piggies.

I would always prefer to rehome a pet from a rescue, and believe that they find their way to you for a reason.
 
I went into Pets at Home to get some cat crunch that was on special offer... and stupidly walked past the adoption centre where they had a sad looking little ginger boy called Cecil who was apparently very shy and had a vitamin C deficiency. I went home and didn't sleep that night so eventually went back the next day and got him and a little friend for him. Basil sadly passed away a couple of years later so I went boar dating at my local rescue and got Jackson. I lost Jack back in October so had Cecil neutered and went back to the same rescue where I found Poppy and Pippin to be his little hareem. I've never seen him so happy and they have all settled in amazingly well together. When I have more space I plan to get a second cage and to go back to a rescue to get a couple of older piggies, preferably the ugliest ones (no such thing in my book as an ugly piggie but some people seem to think there are) that nobody ever shows any interest in so they can have their forever home and be loved to bits! I'm so happy to see so many rescued piggies on here having a happy ever after x)
 
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