On holiday I saw A really good pet shop/education centre. The cages were huge, at least 5 metres by 3 metres, loads of hay everywere filled bottles and bowls and plenty of toys. The piggies were pop-corning round and round and rabbits were housed next door.
Some of the pet stores we have here in Canada ( I am not gonna say they are great ) aren't that bad. The one that I use for all my animal feed (dog, cat, fish and guines food ) does not sell any animals EVER! They do occasionly have an abandoned animal or too for adoption but that is it.
But for toys, hidey houses ect. ( sometimes when the sale is right I will buy food ) I go to a store that does sell animals. They have everything from kittens and puppies, fish and lizards to rabbit and cavy's. The only good thing I can say is that the houseing is a fair sized, and the store by my place will only buy males of every species (hamsters, rats, cavy's, bunnies ect.... ) in the store! Another location will only buy females, this I give them a thumbs up for, and there buying pollices usually take an hour for a 'rodent' and up too 2 days for dog/cats. The paper work you have to fill out is good they want to know about everything living in your household, then they talk to you for a good while and want to know where you are going to house them. Who is going to be the primary caregiver, they want you to buy there food first just so that if you are changing there diet you can do so slowly. And by the time you are done.....you feel like you have been through a wringer, plus you have ( I'll use the guinea pig sheets for an example ) 3 to 4 information sheets to take home. As well as the name and address of the vet clinic that they use for all there animals.
So they do a good job in caring for and educating the buyers on there animal of choice.....but as for where they get there animals.........no one in that store can answer that. It is that reason alone that is why I will never buy from a petstore!!!
I cannot believe the amount of complaints people here have mentioned about these ... pet stores. I had two pigs from pet stores, luckily they were boars as told, but i am very wary about buying boars from pet stores now due to this complianing about being given the wrong sex. I think it is terrible!
Last edited by Percy's Mom; 11-15-06 at 08:11 am. Reason: removing red and curse word
Sorry if that came out wrongly. I mean I cannot believe the amount of pet stores that have let people down, therefore there has been many complaints
i go pets at home every week , but the other day i went in and the rabbits & guinea pigs didnt have no food and the cage had quite a lot of poo in it. i dunno whether it was because it was the end of the day . i think its really over-priced its 35 pound for 2 guinea pigs and in another local pet store its 10 each.
Well so far Pets at home had been all round terrible, i was looking at cages so i wander over to the rats and theres one little guy whos huddled against the wire corner shaking.Staff are just awful there.
Weve had two anti social rabbits,a bunny who died a day after purchase,two guineas who passed away with a disease (one on the way to the vets died in my mums arms),dead fish,hamsters living a month or so.
Yeah i know, why go back? my parents have no idea and no matter how much i try to explain that theyre a pet mill, it just goes in one ear and out the other.
Me and my partner have had 3 rescue cats and soon to adopt two guineas.
We wont touch pets at home animals as sad as those little furry faces are we know it just leads to mills breeding more and not really helping the situation.
Over in England i have also only seen a couple of bad pet shops. One of these was pets at home, this is one shop i shall never buy from and another was in a town near where i live. We saved a hamster from them, they had it in a cage with no food or water, and claimed that it must have burried it. My mum yelled at them and did not pay for him, we took him to the vet and it turned out that he was blind.
However the pet shop in the town that i live is really nice, ive known the owners for years, the animals fcome from respectable breeders and are in very good conditions. The only thing i complain about is the fact that the rats tanks are far too small.
Once again I would like to remind everyone to look at the big picture. How the animals are treated and kept is not the major issue with petstores. The major issue is the cycle of abuse they perpetuate and people help feed every time they buy from a store that sells animals http://www.cavyspirit.com/petstores.htm
Anyone who thinks they "saved" an animal from a petshop needs to read this link http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/...-adopting.html
I was in pets at home only yesterday to get some bedding for my piggies and the hamsters are desprate to get out I felt like crying it was skreching and scraching the GLASS cage it was in . It was so sad, But I must say that they have sectioned of the guineas and the rabbits alough not good enough as they are too small. Is it ok for guinea to sleep in hay? as I was told it was, I assumed it was too dusty, I use their safe bedding almost like tissue.
Hay is perfectly safe, it is straw that isn't. What sort of bedding are you using for your pigs? I thought that "safe bedding" was made from some sort of shredded cloth and only came in tiny quantities.Originally Posted by Getting.cavys
I wouldn't use their safe bedding either, if it is the one I am thinking off. I brought a bag a couple of years ago; I left it on the floor open during floor time and the pigs ate the entire contents, luckily they were fine!
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