2 guinea pigs dumped in the woods

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(01-10-2015, 04:28 PM)Catherine Wrote: I don't think guinea pigs as we know them were ever a wild animal.

I have heard it said that domestic guinea pigs are as far from wild piggies as a chihuahua is from a wolf.
They have lived with people for thousands of years as a food source, and in Europe, at least, they have been pets for at least 500 to 600 hundred years. There's a portrait in one of the galleries in London of an Elizabethan family (painted at the time) and one of the children is holding a pet guinea pig.
We owe them a duty of care as we bred them to be what we wanted and in so doing robbed them of what they need to survive in the wild.