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Pebbles82 · 03-14-2022, 08:04 AM

I suggest you write to that Pet Store. Guinea pigs should be in a much larger enclosure. It's common to see hamsters in smallish tanks but they are usually a litter of babies and ready to be homed and are ok with that for that age. The major pet store in the Uk moves them to the adoption area if they get too old to be bought as babies and they have very large enclosures for guinea pigs.

Suggest you get some authoritative research together about welfare for guinea pigs (eg government rules or a well established welfare society like the RSPCA (I think it's the ASPCA in the US) and write to the pet store and tell them that the guinea pigs housing doesn't meet welfare requirements and ask them to change that, citing your documents and enclosing them.

Alternatively you could just contact the ASPCA. They do look like baby guinea pigs but even so they need more space than that.

03-14-2022, 08:04 AM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: There ought to be a law I suggest you write to that Pet Store. Guinea pigs should be in a much larger enclosure. It's common to see hamsters in smallish tanks but they are usually a litter of babies and ready to be homed and are ok with that for that age. The major pet store in the Uk moves them to the adoption area if they get too old to be bought as babies and they have very large enclosures for guinea pigs. Suggest you get some authoritative research together about welfare for guinea pigs (eg government rules or a well established welfare society like the RSPCA (I think it's the ASPCA in the US) and write to the pet store and tell them that the guinea pigs housing doesn't meet welfare requirements and ask them to change that, citing your documents and enclosing them. Alternatively you could just contact the ASPCA. They do look like baby guinea pigs but even so they need more space than that.