Animal advocates at the Lowell Humane Society call it one of the worst cases of animal abandonment they’ve ever seen: 49 guinea pigs found dumped in the woods in Dracut in early August.
But weeks later, thanks to the hard work of volunteers, most of the guinea pigs are now ready for new homes.
“The fact they just left them in the woods was just completely insane to me,” says Cyrstal Arnott, Lowell Humane Society’s executive director. “They were in horrific condition. They had hair loss on much of their bodies. All of them were very nervous and scared. They had mites, eye discharge, wounds from fighting with each other.”…