"The Man in The Pet Shop Said....."

[honeybunny]

how many rescue workers get soooo fed up with this quote?

"The man in the pet shop said......"


A 4 foot cage is fine for two dwarf lops...

Guinea pigs can live with rabbits...

You can't keep rabbits together they fight...

Rabbits don't like eating those pellet things and anyway they are bad for them....(guess what his shop didn't stock?..yep any kind of pellets)

Rabbits are great for kids and loved to be cuddled

Rabbits don't need much looking after, they do most of it themselves......
(well my Rufus did use to get his own dinner.of those pellets they won't eat!)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/HONEYBUN1/ruffeed-1.jpg

and last but not least
"The man in the pet shop said rabbits are really cheap to keep and if you go away for the weekend you can leave them..like the goldfish..and they'll be fine....):censored::censored:

[bunnymadhouse]

hmmmm ....yes those phrases are definatly a bit well worn ..:rolleyes::evil:

[kayj]

Definately phrases that are used alot:D, & yes it gets a bit boring after a bit hearing them don't you think;):lol:

[nursecroft]

Yep ignorance is bliss for alot of people, very sad.

I have to say though my sister has my nethie titch ( he really is tiny :lol: ) he lives in a big stable and she just wanted a hutch to leave open at all tiimes for him to snuggle in. We went into pets at home and they wouldnt sell her a 4 ft hutch even when we explained i guess incase we weren't telling the truth? He has a bigger one now but he's never shut in and has cosy beds outside, he mostly snuggles up with dotty ontop of the hutch!

Titch
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/nursecroft/titch800x600.jpg

[elve]

You forgot the best one - 'the man in the pet shop said they were both girls' :shock:

[nursecroft]

You forgot the best one - 'the man in the pet shop said they were both girls' :shock:

:lol: yep classic

[ZakuraRabbit]

You can't keep rabbits together they fight...


I keep hearing almost the opposite:

Two same-sex rabbits get along great (then gives the buyers a tiny cage and within 6 months the two un-neutered buns start to fight:roll:)

Or bunnies can make it without their mother at 4 weeks old:shock:

[Victoria39]

:lol::lol:Great piccy :lol::lol:

[Doncat5]

Soooo worryingly true!

[Lucy]

So true. I usually retaliate with "the pet shop is there to make money from you, whereas we are only focusing on the animals welfare"

[chloaster]

Yup get them ....... but probably more often it's the mysterious allergies .... :roll:

[Denny]

Heard a few of those but 'the female customer in the shop has replied with "what century are you living in", I have then gone on to ask them where they have got that information to which most cannot answer and I advise they read an upto date rabbit care book :lol::lol::lol: Then I proceed to ask them what they will be doing with their hutches once the new codes become law under the animal welfare act;) They look a tad worried at that statement and I smile and walk out:lol::lol: hopefully it may send them to seek the animal welfare act out but I often wonder if even the councils that issue the licences know what the animal welfare act is because I am sure that the pet shops don't:roll:

[doorkeeper]

The latest one is that Pets at home told them two boys would fight, two girls would fight and that an opposite sex pair would get on best AND THEY WOULD BE SAFE TOGETHER UNTIL THEY WERE OLD ENOUGH TO BE NEUTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have mum and 6 babies arriving tomorrow:roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

[jrn1310]

I have had a poor couple who about 3 or 4 years ago were intitially told by the lady in a large national pet store that the 2 guinea pigs were both girls. 12 weeks later a litter of 5 babies arrived. They were then told by the lady at the same large national petstore that one of the girls must have been pregnant when you bought them, one of these 'girls' has since been castrated :shock:

The lady at this pet shop also told them that baby boys are not fertile until they are sexed at 12 weeks old, this same lady also told them that guineapigs cannot be sexed until they reach this age. This poor couple left the babies and the 2 'girls' together, the female who had the first litter ended up having a second and a third litter .... the little girls from the first and second litter also ended up having babies as they didnt realise that the lady at the pet shop hadnt told them that they boys are usually fertile at 5 weeks.

Oh how I do so love the pet shop nearbye which also has a large cinema complex :roll:

[mystic.kitty]

Pets at home supposedly sold me two boys. Took them to the vets two days later to get them vaccinated and discovered that one of the boys was a girl! Just as well I was keen to get them vaccinated, the boy has since been castrated and the girl will be spayed in a couple of months when she's a wee bit older.

[Angie65]

Yup get them ....... but probably more often it's the mysterious allergies .... :roll:

yeah, if i pick up a bun where a household develops an allergy, I make a point of mentioning my 15 house buns & my asthma:lol:

[rspcarabbits]

Pets at home supposedly sold me two boys. Took them to the vets two days later to get them vaccinated and discovered that one of the boys was a girl! Just as well I was keen to get them vaccinated, the boy has since been castrated and the girl will be spayed in a couple of months when she's a wee bit older.

At least you got the best pairing:)

[Sarah86]

The latest one is that Pets at home told them two boys would fight, two girls would fight and that an opposite sex pair would get on best AND THEY WOULD BE SAFE TOGETHER UNTIL THEY WERE OLD ENOUGH TO BE NEUTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have mum and 6 babies arriving tomorrow:roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

Some tit at P@H told me that two rabbits wouldn't get on together :roll:

[ZakuraRabbit]

The latest one is that Pets at home told them two boys would fight, two girls would fight and that an opposite sex pair would get on best AND THEY WOULD BE SAFE TOGETHER UNTIL THEY WERE OLD ENOUGH TO BE NEUTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have mum and 6 babies arriving tomorrow:roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

I once heard of a similar case with guinea pigs. A family bought a pair planning to get the male neutered at 12 weeks "because that is when they sexually matured":roll:

Ironically I once read in a guinea pig book that guinea pigs matured at 7-8 weeks, the same book said that if you bought a female pig in the pet shop it was often pregnant... :roll:
Seriously...if you separate them at time that shouldn't happen...did the person who wrote that book ever consider that MAYBE they matured FAR sooner than 7 weeks? :roll:

[Lspacehopper]

The latest one is that Pets at home told them two boys would fight, two girls would fight and that an opposite sex pair would get on best AND THEY WOULD BE SAFE TOGETHER UNTIL THEY WERE OLD ENOUGH TO BE NEUTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have mum and 6 babies arriving tomorrow:roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

Perhaps things weren't quite worded like that by the PAH employee? So quick to believe the person giving up their rabbit, yet not prepared to offer the benefit of the doubt to the PAH employee?

Perhaps if the person still has their livestock scribe which has all the relevant info on including the name of the sales advisor, you could take the issue back to the store and find out exactly what was said or ask them to give correct advice?

[kayjay]

The latest one is that Pets at home told them two boys would fight, two girls would fight and that an opposite sex pair would get on best AND THEY WOULD BE SAFE TOGETHER UNTIL THEY WERE OLD ENOUGH TO BE NEUTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have mum and 6 babies arriving tomorrow:roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

Well to be fair that is actually true, opposite sex pairs do generally get along better than same sex - perhaps they should have been told at what age to get the boy neutered

[kayjay]

A local breeder told someone I know that the best way to find her 4 year old doe a new friend (her sister died) was to breed her and keep one of the babies

.... she'd never been bred and was FOUR years old!!!

She then told her that the second best thing was to buy a baby boy, and get him neutered at 6 months, and this is what she did. I enquired last week how they were and she says they get along fine, he's 6 months old now and they just keep an eye on them to make sure they don't mate :shock: I did tell her it only takes a second but she laughed!! She is going to neuter him.... soon :rolleyes: