Well I went spying on my local Petco yesterday and the place made me sick! I got chatting with one of the pet care assocites and this is what I found out...
First of all I found out that have no quartitine room, they leave the animals were they at for the public to see and "treat" them right were their at.
They have no idea who their breeder vendor is, but they only deal with one so when and animal dies in their care they can blame it on the vendor not on their neglagence sp? jerks...
They was this poor little oscar cichlid (a fish for people who dont know) who had ick (a horribel parasite disease) really bad...I asked the guy in teh fish department what they were treating it with and he said nothing!!! I asked why and he said simply..."its gonna die anyways, there's no point it trying" I wanted to punch him so bad, I swear I felt handcuffs already on my wrists!
There was a guinea pig who I know had mites...the lady who was giving the guinea pig hay said that he just scrached his ear and thats why is was red and raw. She took him out to "treat" him, and she put on this ointment stuff on his ear...the poor little guy was sqeeling so bad, you could probably heard him on the other side of the store. I told her to take him back to vet because he needs ivermectin. She got all snotty on me and said that ivermectin is only used on horses. So I argued with her for a couple minutes before I won. She said that she would "try" to take him to the vets but I dont know if she really will.
In the finch cages, there was 5 spice finchs and 3 zebra finchs all who had plucked feathers really bad. They had no shredded papers, no timothy hay, nothing for them to make nests and thats why they were plucking out each others feathers...thats what they were using to make nests. I wouldnt leave until they did something about it, so the lady just put the plucked feather guys in a cage up above everyone else apparently so they can "heal"
I want to turn them in, but I have no idea where to turn them into, so I know this is the place to come! I live in Antioch, CA...the Bay Area to be exact, what organizations are there over here where I can turn them in?   |