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This is why I hate people trying to rub my face in how "well educated" people who work for these places are. It sickens me. The only education they have is how to rip people off no matter what it does to the pet. Thank you for letting me vent. I think I'm PMSing.  |
You're welcome (for letting you vent). Now it is my turn to "vent" I am sick and tired of people who generalize. ONE bad experience doesn't mean every employee is bad or store. I happen to have a teaching degree and also work for Petco. If spending four years in college, maintaining a 3.4 GPA, running my own pet-sitting business while doing so, and passing student teaching doesn't require intelligence (and tons of sleep-deprived time), I don't know what does. I think I am "educated" (I will not discuss WHY I haven't found a full-time teaching job as it is a long explaination).
The person who told you that information wasn't neccessarily trying to "rip you off". She may have heard that
GP's ARE frightened of larger, open areas and need a smaller area to feel safe. Who knows???
Petco has opportunities for employees to learn much more about animal care. They have videos and training programs. One
GP website I frequent is quite large. The mods there feel that NO one has the right to INSIST that cage sizes be a certain minimum and so on. They have banned members who push their OPINION of cage sizes too. JUST because
GPC.com says that minimum cages sizes should be XXX, doesn't make it gospel. It is the opinion of the website owner and SOME members. Don't get me wrong, it is a GOOD opinion and one that does benefit the piggies. I have two large C&C cages myself, but that still doesn't mean this site has the ONLY right answers in regards to how big a cage should be.
Petco has had trouble with sub-standard animal care at SOME locations in SOME states or towns. I can tell you at our store, I bust my A** to make sure the
GP's get fresh hay,pellets, and veggies daily. They may not have the largest cages in the world, but MOST are not here that long. MOST sell pretty quickly. I spend a LONG time with each prospective owner; explaining the good, the bad, and the ugly of
GP ownership. I explain about adoption and C&C cages. I recommend this site and Guinealynx to new owners even though I know they bash Petco and its employees.
I am sorry, just because I CHOSE to buy my first piggie from Petco (I did adopt my other three), a Silver Agouti, doesn't make me horrible because someone ELSE decided to get a
GP for the wrong reasons and then dump it a few weeks later in a shelter where it MIGHT get euthanized. I refuse to feel guilty because OTHER people are making poor choices. I bought my pig at a Petco and I did it "impulsively" but you should see how spoiled he is and how I will never give him up!)
Sometimes in spite of adoptions as an option, people fall in love with one of a particular color or pattern or breed. and sometimes no matter what, they WON'T wait forever for the right one or won't go to adopt. So we do provide
GP's for sale too. If some of ours are in the store too long, we DO put them up for adoption anyway.
I understand this is an anti-pet store website. However, it just seems so one-sided to listen and read comments over and over, people B---"itching" about Petco and other stores without a person or two trying to put a balanced perspective on things. What kind of site just looks at and accepts ONE narrow-view on things and jumps all over someone with a different opinion. That is militant and frankly, kind of boring.
*ducks head and runs for cover*