Today, I went to Jacks Pet Aquarium just to check up on the animals. I usually do this about twice a month, and when I go in and I see something wrong, I cause a fuss. However, today was different, I saw a mother, and her 2 daughters walking around the store with a cart filled with bad guinea pig items. She was planning on purchasing a new guinea pig, and I obviously could not control my urge to tell her no!
After the Sales Clerk went away, I told her the horrors of buying a pet store animal, and how 90% of the things she was planning on buying were bad for her potential new pet. She was very nice, and was asking me a whole lot of questions that she felt the Sales Clerk did not touch on. (obviously)
All she bought was some CareFresh, and a wooden hidey house. We went to the parking lot, and I gave her this website, and all the knowledge I had learned from this website. Also, I have her a phone number to a guinea pig rescue.
The best part is after all the good & bad things I told her, she was still up for the challenge. She kept thanking me over and over again, because like many of us, she would have wasted money on bad guinea pig items, and not even known it. I also gave her my phone number just in case
The moral of the story is that if you do go into pet stores, and you see someone about to make mistakes for ANY animals life, politely ask them about it, and 9 times out of 10, they'll thank you for the advice, and tips.
Making animals lives better starts with their humans, and if everyone just stopped and helped someone else from making the same mistakes we did, then I really do think we could make a strong impact.
I just thought this would be a cool story to share.
After the Sales Clerk went away, I told her the horrors of buying a pet store animal, and how 90% of the things she was planning on buying were bad for her potential new pet. She was very nice, and was asking me a whole lot of questions that she felt the Sales Clerk did not touch on. (obviously)
All she bought was some CareFresh, and a wooden hidey house. We went to the parking lot, and I gave her this website, and all the knowledge I had learned from this website. Also, I have her a phone number to a guinea pig rescue.
The best part is after all the good & bad things I told her, she was still up for the challenge. She kept thanking me over and over again, because like many of us, she would have wasted money on bad guinea pig items, and not even known it. I also gave her my phone number just in case
The moral of the story is that if you do go into pet stores, and you see someone about to make mistakes for ANY animals life, politely ask them about it, and 9 times out of 10, they'll thank you for the advice, and tips.
Making animals lives better starts with their humans, and if everyone just stopped and helped someone else from making the same mistakes we did, then I really do think we could make a strong impact.
I just thought this would be a cool story to share.