rainbowwriter77
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Theres being against and theres being rude...
Wow. I cannot believe how brutal that video is... and how UNTRUE it is.
I have been in their back rooms where the "sick animals are hidden". They're not "hidden" they are isolated so that the illness cannot spread!
Can you imagine how people would freak if a sick pet was kept housed with all the healthy pets?
Of COURSE the sick pets are "hidden" in the back; that's the only sensible thing to do.
Petsmart does NOT have a fridge stuffed full of dead animals (unless you count the packaged frozen feeder mice for the snakes),
Okay, now I totally agree, this is horrible. And while at the same time I know not all of this is true. My local Petco is absolutely amazing. We know the workers personally. When I went to adopt a hamster (from the side adoption tanks/ the ones they were fostering back to health) upon MY request they led me to the back and I witnessed them giving medicine to sick animals (NOT FORCEFULLY) and I went to Petsmart on a Saturday and they were cleaning out all the cages, I went back on that Monday and they were cleaning them out again.
The guinea pigs had more than enough hay, and there were only two of them, the same gender, as they don't want to risk the accidently placement.
The hamsters of the same breed that didn't get along were in a separate tank titled "Semi- aggressive."
I don't ever plan on getting animals from them. but whenever I look, they SEEM to be in good hands, the ones in my area anyways.
The thing is, why should Petsmart, Petco, or any pet store be commended for doing these things? They're all just proper care, not anything out of the ordinary. They medicate sick animals. Big deal. I would certainly hope they wouldn't let them suffer. The pigs have hay. Big whippy wow. That's just as it should be, not something extraordinary. They clean the cages regularly. Big deal. I clean my girls' cage daily and don't expect any kudos for it. It's a sad state of affairs when pet stores are praised for doing proper animal care.
I'm saying that from what I have seen at my location or pets mart and cos they take care of their animals!!!!! This is what this thread is about!!!!! I'm not saying that they shouldn't feed and clean of course they should. I'm just saying they are! However my point is I'm not trying to make bad with anyone over opinions and we don't have the
same people who work there either and I do think that shelters are so much better instead of buying your piggie and recommend it. All I'm saying is not all Pets marts and petcos are as bad as that one shown in the video. Sorry if I offended you I didn't mean to.
The issue of why Petco and Petsmart and other chains and stores are "bad" isn't because they don't take care of their animals as much as it is WHERE they get their animals from and HOW they "SELL" their stock. Geez, it's not what you see it's what you don't see that is the issue. Shall we dig up the distributor videos for you?
The thing is, why should Petsmart, Petco, or any pet store be commended for doing these things? They're all just proper care, not anything out of the ordinary. They medicate sick animals. Big deal. I would certainly hope they wouldn't let them suffer. The pigs have hay. Big whippy wow. That's just as it should be, not something extraordinary. They clean the cages regularly. Big deal. I clean my girls' cage daily and don't expect any kudos for it. It's a sad state of affairs when pet stores are praised for doing proper animal care.
Let me know if it doesn't. I am for shelters. I am against shelters. My whole problem is that what I see and what really goes on are so different and they can hide it so easily.
I work at Petsmart does that make me a bad person? This is RIDICULOUS.
Ummm no? I wouldn't read too much into things. What exactly are you referring to that is "RIDICULOUS"?
Not trying to say anything to offend you, but then how would you like to explain what we just watched in that video?talking poorly about people who work at Petsmart i work there and i don't hurt animals and NO ONE in petcare mistreats an animal and they name ALL the animals and i have seen many people say no to sell a pet to a customer. I would just appericate the slander away from the employes because im not a bad person and id like to not be called one for working at a company.