Over 50 guinea pigs abandoned

date - 5-3-08 Over 50 guinea pigs were abandoned at a local business near Cheektowaga/Buffalo , NY, in dirty bins where males and females were mixed together. These guinea pigs were allowed to breed to an extreme number then were abandoned :( One female is nursing babies and 7 of the females are pregnant. We have the nursing Mother and the pregnant Moms with us here at Life Long Tails. But we are physically unable to keep and house that many guinea pigs within our home. We are looking for foster homes so they are taken out of the business's building. The business can only keep them there for a certain period of time before they will send them to a nearby shelter where they might be euthanized as a result.
update 5-6-08 - All of the abandoned guinea pigs are now in foster homes and out of the building. None of them were sent to anywhere else. I thank everyone who helped out! Everyone is very wonderful to us and the guinea pigs. One of the foster Moms is looking for other people to foster some of the guinea pigs in her home right now, she took in 25 of them to save them, she is fostering them right now. She would be relieved if anyone else would like to foster any of the 25 she has. Two more females have given birth to 6 babies total, 6 more females are obviously pregnant. We are not sure how many females could be pregnant and aren't showing yet. We could wind up with another 50 guinea pigs from resulting babies from having males and females mixed together in the bins they were left in. ( all guinea pigs are separated by gender now , of course) female guinea pigs will be on pregnancy watch before they are placed up for adoption. All guinea pigs except for nursing Mom's and babies have been treated for guinea pig lice and mites. Males will be up for adoption very soon. Again, I thank everyone for the HUGE effort to save all these guinea pigs , they all deserve a second chance at a better life, and now they will get it!
We will greatly appreciate any donations of timothy hay, alfalfa hay, timothy based and alfalfa based guinea pig pelleted food, aspen shavings, water bottles, food dishes and guinea pig approved toys. Also any fresh fruits and vegetables. We use a lot of red peppers which are high in vitamin C for the guinea pigs.

Update 5-7-08 Today I have received numerous e-mails saying we are a fake rescue. That we just take animals and resell them for profit. And that we are threatening to kill these guinea pigs if we do not find foster homes or adoptable homes for them. I am in tears right now that anyone would think this. It is FAR from the truth. Since that call from the business owner on Wednesday night I have spent the rest of my days and time to get them out of the business building and into homes so the business wouldn't have been forced to take all of them to the SPCA. We did even better than that, we were able to find a place for ALL of the guinea pigs to stay until they are adopted. I thought this was a good thing. I do not understand why I am being threatened. People have e-mailed me about shutting us down for our scams, what scams? I'll try to explain the situation with the guinea pig abandonment further- the guinea pigs only had a certain amount of time where they could stay at the business building. I personally couldn't take in that many guinea pigs , it was impossible. That was the need to find foster homes for them, in order to get them out of the building on time to save them. If they had stayed at the business,( we are not that business! and they want to remain anonymous to the public) the business would have sent them to the Erie County SPCA where some of them MAY have wound up euthanized. We wanted to avoid that. Our posting was to find foster homes and get them out of the business, and from there we will have them vet checked and treated for parasites and then placed up for adoption. We do not make one cent of profit from what we do in fact I can't even fathom how much money we would have right now if we didn't help the animals. Trust me, we do pay a lot out of our pockets just to keep all animals happy, spoiled and healthy before they find their forever home. That is all I have to say and I don't even understand why I would need to defend myself. All of the guinea pigs are safe and are being treated with love and TLC for the fist time in their lives I am sure, I think that is a wonderful thing.