Pets At Home to stop selling guinea pigs after pets die in 'outbreak'

Pets At Home to stop selling guinea pigs after pets die in 'outbreak'

Pets at Home will stop selling guinea pigs as concern rises over the spread of a 'potentially life-threatening' infection.

Family ‘distraught’ after two Pets at Home guinea pigs die within a week

Sam’s daughters were in floods of tears over the deaths (Picture: Sam Mesher) A family are ‘distraught’ after two guinea pigs bought at Pets at Home died within a week ‘with Strep symptoms’. Sam Mesher and daughters Ava, 4, and Mia, 11, saw their pet Coco die after having her for just three weeks, and then Coco’s replacement, Fudge, died a few days later. Sam claims the animals were infected with Streptococcus, commonly known as Strep, which was…