All over the internet there are long winded animal ranting and raving about pet store problems: the piggies are kept in tiny aquariums, they come from insufficient breeders, they end up ill and pregnant and on and on and on.. THEY ARE NOT WRONG, however all they do is go on and on about how no one should ever buy from a pet store and if you do you are the devil and frankly its just becoming white noise that and nothing is ever going to change. Earlier on this website I was reading another topic about pet stores and one user said that they wouldn't buy from a pet store that sold cats and dogs and suggested that instead of selling these animals they hold adoption fairs which is a very good idea, and it got me thinking... instead of just ranting on the internet like pompous nut jobs why not actually think about it an try to come up with realistic, reasonable, and actionable solutions to the problem. Yes, I know it's just brainstorming on the internet but we have to start somewhere. Things like "all pet stores should have football arena size habitats for their guinea pigs where they run around in the sunshine with unicorns and rainbows every day of the year" are obviously NOT going to work, they have to be financially reasonable, and practical or we are just wasting time. I mean there are obvious ones like "employees need more training" and what not, but we should at least get the conversation moving in a positive, productive direction...
There may be other threads with this same topic, idk I didn't look that hard but frankly if there were even a third as many as there are bashing pet stores we would be in a much better place.
I don't care what you think is a problem with pet stores, I don't care if it's guinea pig specific or about another kind of animal, or maybe you think the uniforms are ugly, I don't care, whatever it is come up with a solution and post it here.
(It's not just "guinea pig people" who do the ranting and raving but I don't really read forums about anything else so...)
There may be other threads with this same topic, idk I didn't look that hard but frankly if there were even a third as many as there are bashing pet stores we would be in a much better place.
I don't care what you think is a problem with pet stores, I don't care if it's guinea pig specific or about another kind of animal, or maybe you think the uniforms are ugly, I don't care, whatever it is come up with a solution and post it here.
(It's not just "guinea pig people" who do the ranting and raving but I don't really read forums about anything else so...)