| Re: Adoption Areas in Pet Stores
My sister does photography for a national pet chain and brought home Orange Piggie for me because she knew I'd been looking into guinea pigs. He was for adoption, but free. She signed something and got the little small animal coupon book thanking her for saving a life, or something. If Orange Piggie had been dumped with a cage, the cage would have come with him, too.
My sister adopted two abandoned rats from the Petco we do our cat adoptions at, for free, and there's been several hamsters abandoned at that store in the last few months, too.
FYI - petco, at least, re-stocks returned "merchandise"/animals. They don't offer them for free. We took in a returned baby corn snake who was refusing to eat, because we had more experience than the employees and the manager wasn't going to re-sell it, even though he would have had to if it had been 100% healthy and not a pathetic skinny thing. He did refund the guy who had purchased it two and a half months earlier. |