Animal shelters in New York City are facing a guinea pig crisis as officials say many families bought the animals as pets during the pandemic.
Now, they are being turned in to shelters at an alarming rate.
At Animal Care Centers of NYC in Manhattan, there are guinea pigs as far as the eye can see -- so many that they had to buy specialized housing with a price tag of $20,000. This year, roughly 600 have been dropped at city shelters, compared to 481 and 282 during the same periods in 2021 and 2019. "You need to know they live 7 to 10 years," Hansen said. "Their gestation period is 70 days, so they can produce a lot of offspring."
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