[Astrantia]

Awful!

When Pets At Home used to be Petsmart I worked a couple of days there as a teenager. A few things shocked me 'behind the scenes'. Now compared to that article, where I worked ran a more humane store... but not by much. What shocked me was what happened to dead animals. Animals that came in were first quarantined in the rooms out the back of the store. It wasn't, apparently unusual for a good number of these animals to die. When they did die, I witnessed what they did with the animals. I saw dead fish, mice and hamsters thrown together in a ordinary looking plastic swing bin. I was horrified to say the lest. I didn't go back to work there again. I contacted the RSPCA about the situation, but apparently they were abidding by the law so nothing could be done.

But now what horrifies me is the ridiculous information I've heard their young staff dishing out to curious people enquiring about animals in store. I saw one girl cleaning out the guinea pigs while yammering over the fence to a non-staff friend of hers. She was carting a black stack around the cage, paying no notice of the pigs and put the black stack ON TOP of the guinea pigs! I ran over and said "Hey! Watch it, you've put the bag on the pigs!!!". She looked down, shrugged, snorted at me and went "Oops?" then moved the bag. When a customer was asking about their diet and she blurted out adding vitamins to their water I lost my rag and cut in saying WHY that's not necessary and WHY it's a bad idea to add vitamins to their water.