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Originally Posted by John4216  Umm I think you should check again. That investigation was in 2005. And the legislation they fought was after that. All you can say about Petco is what happens at YOUR store. |
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Ultimately, the suit was successful. Fines of $50,000 were assessed against Petco and the court issued an injunction. Now, six years after the City first began citing Petco for problems, the injunction expired as conditions at the stores have improved.
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It looks like this was an on-going process that began six years ago but now Petco's conditions in (those) stores have improved.
I'm not saying that animals at Petcos NEVER suffer or die. They do. However, they suffer worse in the wild (I know these aren't wild animals), they suffer in homes, they can suffer and die at the breeders (small or large scale). Animals get sick. Rescues that take in cats and overcrowd them, wind up with huge outbreaks of all kinds of diseases and URI's.
For animal rights groups to expect pet-stores to never, ever have an animal get sick (not even one) is extremely unrealistic. It's the care they recieve IF/when they get sick that counts. Sometimes when our hamsters have a particulary rough time with wet-tail and we know they are going downhill in spite of treatment, we bring them to a vet to have them humanely euthanized. That's how much Petco cares. $50.00 spent on one hamster (or mouse, or anole, or whatever) to spare it from suffering further. That hamster cost Petco what? $1.00? That's why Petco is so anal about having initialed Wellness cards and incident reports attached to each and every cage in the back. Document, document, document!!!
Hell, people get sick and die. IT's a fact of life. I cannot speak for EVERY PETCO, but whenever our animals even have a cough or sniffle a vet is consulted IMMEDIATELY and the animals are removed to the back for treatment until they are well.