Guinea Pig Charities

Our recent Thanksgiving giveaway featured a donation to a guinea pig charity. Your participation in that giveaway resulted in us donating $30 to the Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue. Some readers may want to know how they can do more for guinea pigs in need, however, so in this post, we're going to provide a list of guinea pig charities.

Guinea pig charities provide food to less fortunate guinea pigs, and food is important! And delicious!

For the purposes of this post, we're defining a guinea pig charity as:

• U.S. non-profit organizations that have obtained 501(c)3 status from the IRS
• Non-profits that explicitly mention guinea pigs in their name, and have a mission to help guinea pigs

In addition, we're going to provide some links to Guidestar and review sites so you can read up on them before donating. Also, in case you would like to assist in other ways besides donating money (such as volunteering or donating items), we're listing the location of each one.

Here's our list:

Cavy Care Inc (Aurora, CO)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/84-1502027/cavy-care.aspx
• Reviews: http://www.yelp.com/biz/cavy-care-inc-aurora
• Organization website: http://www.cavycareinc.org/
• Donate: http://www.cavycareinc.org/donate.php

Cavy World Guinea Pig Rescue (El Sobrante, CA)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/91-2162223/cavy-world-guinea-pig-rescue.aspx
• Reviews: none found
• Organization website: http://www.cavyhouse.org/Home.html
• Donate: http://www.cavyhouse.org/Donate.html

Crazy Cavies Guinea Pig Rescue Inc (Coral Springs, FL)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/26-2270589/crazy-cavies-guinea-pig-rescue.aspx
• Reviews:  http://www.guineapigtoday.com/2011/09/13/rescue-roundup-crazy-cavies-guinea-pig-rescue/ ; https://www.facebook.com/Crazycavies/reviews
• Organization website: https://www.facebook.com/Crazycavies ; http://www.crazycavies.org/
• Donate: https://www.facebook.com/Crazycavies/app_128953167177144

Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue (Fairfax, VA)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/54-1982408/metropolitan-guinea-pig-rescue.aspx
• Reviews: http://greatnonprofits.org/whitelabel/reviews/metropolitan-guinea-pig-rescue#r_id-143564--user_id-190022
• Organization website: http://www.mgpr.org/
• Donate: http://mgpr.org/newsite/Donate/Donate.htm

North Jersey Guinea Pig and Hamster Rescue: A NJ Nonprofit Corporation (Budd Lake, NJ)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/26-0314896/north-jersey-guinea-pig-hamster-rescue-a-nj.aspx
• rescue.aspx
• Reviews: none found
• Organization website: none found
• Donate: https://amex.justgive.org/basket?acton=donate&ein=26-0314896

Orange County Cavy Haven (Fullerton, CA)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/20-0025377/orange-county-cavy-haven.aspx
• Reviews: http://greatnonprofits.org/whitelabel/reviews/orange-county-cavy-haven
• Organization website: http://www.cavyhaven.org/
• Donate: http://www.cavyhaven.org/how-can-you-help.php

Piggie Poo (Phoenix, AZ)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/20-5738769/arizonas-piggie-poo-rescue.aspx
• Reviews: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arizonas-Piggie-Poo-Rescue-Inc/174843145898322?sk=reviews&ref=page_internal
• Organization website: http://piggiepoo.org/index.html
• Donate: http://piggiepoo.org/waystohelp.html

Texas Rustlers Guinea Pig Rescue Inc (Lewisville, TX)

• Guidestar listing: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/14-1865740/texas-rustlers-guinea-pig-rescue.aspx
• Reviews: http://www.yelp.com/biz/texas-rustlers-guinea-pig-rescue-lewisville
• Organization website: http://www.theguineapigrescue.com/
• Donate: http://www.theguineapigrescue.com/donate

Other
There are also other guinea pig rescues out there that didn't meet our definition of a guinea pig charity for the purposes of this post (in other countries, or not registered with the IRS as a charity), but probably still do good work. Here are a couple lists of them:

• Guinea Pig Zone: http://www.guineapigzone.com/guinea-pigs/rescues
• Guinea Lynx: http://www.guinealynx.info/rescues.html

Have you donated or volunteered for one of these organizations? Let us know about your experiences in the comments section!