Thirty eight guinea pigs including 10 pregnant females have been dumped outside a pet store.
They were left in children’s toy boxes outside Pets At Home on Mostyn Champneys retail park Llandudno - one of the guinea pigs has since died while the rest are being nursed back to health by the store’s shocked staff.
Pets at Home and Support Adoption For Pets are working together to find new homes for the animals.
A spokesman for Pets at Home said: “When colleagues arrived at work on Tuesday morning they noticed a number of boxes left outside the Pets at Home store entrance.
“Upon examining the contents of the children’s toy boxes, the team were met by the unfortunate sight of 38 guinea pigs left abandoned by an owner unable to cope with responsibility of care for the animals.”
Instore vets then checked on wellbeing of the pigs: "Unfortunately it was found that one was too sick to survive and many of the males were also found wounded and injured with bites – most likely due to being kept in cramped conditions.
“Upon a full health check, at least 10 females were also found to heavily pregnant,” a spokesman added.
Emma Nefield took responsibility for the animals and is helping to nurse them back to full health.
Emma, who works part-time at the RSPCA centre in Bryn y Maen, is unfortunately well accustomed to finding abandoned pets on her doorstep.
She said: “It’s always sad to see a situation like this but we are doing our best to care for them until we find them forever homes.
“Support Adoption for Pets has been kind enough to help us out and over the next few weeks many of the guinea pigs will be moved to other stores.”
Support Adoption For Pets will assist in the rehoming of at least 30 guinea pigs who will be moved to Rhyl, Bangor, Wallasey, Queensferry and Holyhead adoption centres in an effort to find them new, loving homes.
Emma added: “We believe the owner has been struggling to cope with the animals due to the speed in which they breed.
“Guinea pigs can breed every four weeks so can quickly become a handful and take up a lot of space. When we find a home for one of our own guinea pigs, we also ensure they have a suitable enclosure waiting and are given away in same sex pairs.”
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