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Originally Posted by rabbitsncavyluv  Petsmart sells animals, often sick and pregnant ones from pet mills. Yes, it makes them look good while hiding some ugly truths. They're in the pet mill business and contributing the the pet overpopulation problem. |
Thats not true. each petsmart chooses to sell female or male animals. i know a ton of people are going to hate me but I do work at a petsmart, in the pet care department. sorry but reading this got me mad, we never sell animals that are sick! and we get our animals from one breeder. we have two rooms that are not on the floor one called ISO which we keep the sick animals, and then another called new arrival which we monitor the animals we get for atleast two weeks to make sure theyre healthy. in ISO we take our animals to a local vet and medicate them back to health and when theyre ok'd to put on the floor we tell the person buying the animal that they WERE sick but are fine now.
and we also take in animals, in ISO is where we keep the animals that have gotten dropped off etc.. and we feed them and take care of them and clean their cages every week to make sure theyre healthy. we always tell customers that there are also animals for adoption too, which we give to propper homes.
and we always make sure that people have propper set ups or we dont sell them, im the main person that takes care of the rodents in the store. and i have adopted out a lot of the pets that have gotten dropped off and i've even taken in quite a few.
and its hard for a lot of people to get guinea pigs that arent from pet stores from where i live by, even though i live in chicago, a big city. the closest shelter that takes in mainly guinea pigs is an hour away far into the suburbs