[Gpdd] Misc: Piggy Got Too Big

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Sun Dec 26 23:58:05 EST 2004


Dear Dawnda,

Sorry for being so slow in responding to this posting, but I have been really 
busy mailing out copies of CARROT WARS (because of the Christmas season). I 
have reread this recently, and just had to post a response, because it is 
something I feel very deeply about.

You wrote (in part):
I wanted to say that I enjoyed the "Carrot Wars" movie
too. I laughed and laughed. 

For the last thing, I just don't understand people.
The bumper sticker that says, "The more I'm around
people, the more I like my guinea pig." fits me. 
I was at work (dental assisting) and I was telling a
women who is a neighbor of mine that I take in
rescues. I was telling her all the animals that I have
and she said she wished she would have known that
because she would have given me her guinea pig.

She thought that guinea pigs were small animals. Her
guinea pig grew big and she just couldn't keep it
because it was too big. She gave it to a pet store. 
How could you raise a pet from a baby and just give it
away because it grew big? It's just beyond me!!!

Dawnda

I am just shaking as I write this. I feel the same way, that pets are your 
babies. They are thinking, FEELING creatures, and I would no sooner give away a 
pet than give away a  human child of mine. I, too, have heard all the 
excuses--"got too big," "got too smelly" (in other words, the owner "didn't have time 
to clean the cage when it got dirty"), "got too wild," "got sick." A neighbor 
of mine actually took her little white poodle (which she'd had since he was a 
puppy) and had him euthanized "because it got too expensive to keep treating 
him for ear infections." People "dump" cats and dogs along the side of the road 
when they no longer want to care for them. I live in a college town, and 
every year after students graduate, some of the students move on, and leave their 
animals behind. This means that there are bewildered "stray" dogs and cats 
wandering around, cold and hungry, their hearts broken, waiting for "their 
person," who never comes back. (This is how we got our beautiful cat, Precious. He 
was dying of kidney disease and starvation in our backyard, abandoned by a 
previous owner.  We had to spend nearly a thousand dollars nursing him back to 
health, even though my mom is deathly allergic to cats.) Through the years we 
have rescued so many of these poor defenseless pets. I cannot, cannot, CANNOT 
understand how anyone in their right mind could be so heartless. Don't they get 
it? These helpless creatures are just as entitled to love and happiness as WE 
are!!! And a guinea pig getting "too big"???? Just exactly HOW BIG did this 
guinea pig grow--big enough to not fit in the house???? I am just appalled and 
sickened. I am sorry to bring this subject back to the Digest, when it is such a 
wonderful time of year, but I just had to respond. What do you say when 
someone says something like that in your hearing? What can you possibly say?

Love and Wheeeeeeps,

Alyssa and the guinea pig movie stars
http://hometown.aol.com/guineapigfilms




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