Mikey and Tyke's Story

In May 2007 ACS received a call which was passed onto us by the RSPCA. A 6yr old female guinea pig had been bred many times over the past years and the owner of the guinea pig finally decided to stop breeding her and had decided to keep her and surrender her last two male guinea pigs.  The owner of the guinea pigs did not want to pay a small donation of a gold coin to surrender the guinea pigs to the RSPCA initially hence why the call was passed on to us as we do not charge a surrender fee. The owner also did not want to drive to the ACS shelter to surrender her guinea pigs. After speaking further with the owner of the guinea pigs we were told that the female guinea pig was living in a cane basket and that the two males were being kept in a MILK CRATE. After hearing this, with concern for the guinea pigs ACS Brisbane Shelter manager and one of our volunteers made our way an hour and a half from the shelter to pick-up the guinea pigs from the owners home. Once arrived at the home we found the two male guinea pigs both very underweight and with internal mites/mange infestation and sitting in a milk crate no larger than a small animal carry cage. The guinea pigs returned to the shelter where they were treated and stayed for several weeks gaining condition, weight and growing their coats back. ACS has had to make several rescue trips over the years to pick up guinea pigs when we've received phone calls from members of the public where they want to surrender their animals but don't want to drive to the shelter. We make these trips without hesitation when we feel the animals welfare and health may be at risk. We make the effort to take these trips because we care, and the results are usually as suspected.

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