Cardboard Living

We had a grandmother come into the store today to return a couple of guinea pigs on behalf of her Daughter.
As one of the guinea pigs had unfortunately passed away and the Daughter was worried that the other guinea pig would catch whatever had caused the first guinea pig to die and so she wanted both returned.

The return process was slightly complicated because the customer hadn't been given a receipt and didn't have their phone number in the computer to be able to look up the receipt.

They did have the paperwork though which proved that the guinea pigs were bought from us.
So the manager gave the okay to do a receiptless return.

And because the customer was planning to buy two more guinea pigs to replace the other two.
It made it easier to do the exchange so the customer didn't have to pay anything.

However.
The grandmother was ill prepared to actually care for the guinea pigs.

As she revealed as I was getting the new guinea pigs ready that she wasn't going to be heading back down to her daughter's place for two more days. 

......
And wanted to know if the guinea pigs would be alright being left in a cardboard box for that amount of time.

*exhales*

I don't know person. Would YOU be okay being left in a box with no air holes for TWO DAYS? 

*rolls eyes*

What people think is okay for animals always just...is crazy.

In any case.
I set the customer straight.
Saying that the guinea pigs would need water and food and a container that they couldn't chew their way out of.

But the grandmother wasn't willing to buy a cage, especially for 2 days.
So I eventually was like "Do you have an old plastic bin?" 
Because at least the bin would keep the guinea pigs from being able to chew their way out of it. 

But yah.....
I hope they do okay for the next two days. 

-Sarnic Dirchi