Surrender Guinea Pigs

Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue

Surrendering Guinea Pigs

Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue works to provide permanent, loving homes for animals we rescue from local animal shelters. We are a small organization with only a few volunteers to foster guinea pigs, and we are only able to rescue a small fraction of animals in these shelters.

Therefore, we cannot accept private owner giveups for any reason.

If you need to surrender a guinea pig that you previously adopted from Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue, please disregard the remainder of this page and send us an email message (info@mgpr.com). We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if you need to find another home for your guinea pig, there are two options:

Option 1: You can contact your local animal shelter to surrender your guinea pig. Note, however, that most area organizations are not "no kill" shelters--you should ask before turning an animal in.

Click here for a list of animal shelters

Option 2: You can try to adopt the animal out yourself. Below are some suggested ways to get the word out that you have an available animal.

If you can possibly take pictures and put them online for people to link to, that helps immensely since there are quite a few guinea pigs needing new homes in our area. Here are some online resources for you to post about your pig. Remember that the more you say about age, color, how friendly, sex, what they looks like, what equipment you'll provide, etc., the better your chances. People who follow up and do this DO find homes--it takes some effort and patience.

1. Guinea Pig Adoption Network (GPAN) : Read other posts first to get a good idea. The better you write it, the more you might get a response. If you are willing to do any transport, please say that. This is a wonderful way to advertise your piggie. You will be surprised at how quickly someone may take them. They are all guinea pig lovers looking on this board.

2. Petfinder : Post an ad by following their instructions.

3. Online forums to post information:

Cavymadness : Click on 'Message Board' and look for the 'Adoption and Rescue' section.
Caviesgalore : Go to the FORUMS section and look for 'Piggy Placement'.
Cavyrescue : Go to post a 'new listing'.

You can request to post an ad at any of the offices of the veterinarians listed here: