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Originally Posted by Ly&Pigs  Because lately, more and more, we mods are seeing people say "don't bite my head off for..." or "I don't want to be harrassed because I...". Who says anyone is going to harrass them for anything? By making such statements you are assuming that your post will cause this to happen. But, how do you know it will happen? You don't. So basically you are just assuming and assuming can and has gotten a lot of people in trouble around here.
You are entitled to your own opinion but that does not mean that others agree with it. This site is Anti-petstore that sells animals for a majority of reasons.
Some of these stores that you've personally been to that actually sell the animals, have you been in their back rooms? Have you been there on days they get in animals and seen the conditions of how they are brought to the store? Do you know exactly where they get the animals? Are they bought from mills or backyard breeders? Have you been to the mills or backyard breeders places? Do you know how the animals were raised? Petstores are more than just the appearance when you walk in. It's more than cage sizes in the store, more than how the animals are taken care of in the store. There are a lot of behind the scenes things that you don't see. |
The before anyone says anything is just a throw-away comment. I did'nt mean anything by it, and it was'nt directed at anyone.
Although I was somewhat standing up for the petshops ..its because although I have never agreed with them ..I did'nt realise how actaully decent they are over here in the U.K, but hearing some of the things on here about the American ones .. wow.
Anyway, it was just a way also of reminding people that I DON'T buy animals from petshops, despite my post.
No, I have never been in the back of Pets at Home, but 2 of my close friends have for Work Experience, and neither of them told me anythng awful about it. They are both animal lovers, and they know I am, so surely the would have mentioned it if they had seem something horrific.
However, I'm not naive ..maybe they were kept from the 'bad bits' because they were'nt paid employees? Who knows.
What I do know is that alot of the workers in Pets At Home are animal lovers, and I'm pretty sure they would kick up a stink about it if there was.
Also, the local petshop is open plan. There are'nt any backrooms, its in the back of a shopping market, and the two enterances are the only doors in shop, except for a small stock room, which has no animals in it. I know this because I once helped one of the workers carry a delivery box (full of dry dog food) into the bacl.
They also do a pet sitting service, and that part of the shop is seperated by half a wall, and a sliding glass wall .. I can't really explain it .. but theres nothing horrible there either.
(I would'nt use the pet sitting service thougjh, I would be scared of my babies catching something, so my grandaddy minds my pets if i have o leave them for a few days)