But what about the parrots, birds, fish, ferrets, etc.... They still sell those. I hate (but in a bind, will buy my parrot food there)...but they are a chain and hire really stupid people most of the time. The groomers have killed several dogs thru the "hair drying" station alone. Yea, they talk a good talk about having rescues.... any rescue is going to take what they can. But they still take certain animals from breeders and re-sel them. It's a corp. and that's all it is.... It was (is) a money making venture..... bottom line
Been to the pet store so angry!
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Pet stores must be very different in America. I haven't been to sydney or melbourne recently so i can't tell you what they're like, but down here you won't find a pure breed pup in a pet shop. They're all cross breeds, and they're not sold as some 'new' breed under a fancy name. It just says Jack Russel x poodle, or what ever. (that was just an example). Prices are only ever within the hundred dollar mark. That's Australian though. DOn't know what the exchange rate is. I go into pet shops regularly just to look at the puppies and kittens and i've never seen them not fat, healthy and clean. One pet shop here actually told a customer that a puppy had already been sold, when it wasn't. When i asked her why, she said "he looks like a ***hole." Like i said though, i havn't been to one of the BIG cities in years, maybe they're worse.
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I was talking to a guy the other day who was breeding malti-poos. He told me that malti-poos were a rare breed and that they are not mutts! What a load of crap! I told him that he shouldnt be breeding mutts and he shouldnt be selling puppies for over a thousand dollars. Then he told me that if you cant afford one of his quality puppies that you shouldnt have a dog at all.
I'm glad I worked for them when they were still a fairly new and small company and were stricter on their hiring and training. This was almost 10 years ago now...and all the groomers I knew actually knew their stuff and never left a dog in an "on" dryer for more than 15 minutes at a time or whatever is the actual safe time. They have gone downhill since I was there.
And as far as 'my' petsmart goes, they really don't have anything to do directly with the dog adoptions, they simply allow some of the local shelters to use the floor space. Petsmart gets nothing monetary from it, unless the people adopting buy all their supplies from them. As far as your point about re-selling breeder dogs, well, doesn't every rescue do that to a point?
And as far as 'my' petsmart goes, they really don't have anything to do directly with the dog adoptions, they simply allow some of the local shelters to use the floor space. Petsmart gets nothing monetary from it, unless the people adopting buy all their supplies from them. As far as your point about re-selling breeder dogs, well, doesn't every rescue do that to a point?
The worst thing about PetSmart and Petco is their employees. They seem to be hiring a lot of unambitious young women who like dogs and a lot of young men who like fooling around with little forklifts. Neither group has a clue when it comes to customer service, and both are apparently sleepwalking through their days. I guess this could be said of most large chain stores, but it's more annoying with a petstore where children, adults and dogs are mingling pretty freely. Someone should step in to jettison people who bring rowdy kids - running wildly through a store filled with dogs is a good sign your kid has weak survival instincts - or aggressive dogs. The employees at these petstores just do sales, they don't do any management at all.
And they often have no clue about what they're selling too.
I'm biased though, I applied to petsmart about 6 months ago, they called me and said they would take me, and to go take drug tests, which I did, and they never called me back. On second thought it's probably best because I would have had a hard time not telling people they shouldn't buy their crap food, lol. Plus everytime I go to petsmart there is someone with a 7-8 week old puppy walking on the floor among other stranger dogs and it makes me want to scream.
But yeah, I much prefer smaller petshops that don't sell pets at all... Although I wonder where people would buy their guinea pigs or hamsters if there was no petstore around?
I'm biased though, I applied to petsmart about 6 months ago, they called me and said they would take me, and to go take drug tests, which I did, and they never called me back. On second thought it's probably best because I would have had a hard time not telling people they shouldn't buy their crap food, lol. Plus everytime I go to petsmart there is someone with a 7-8 week old puppy walking on the floor among other stranger dogs and it makes me want to scream.
But yeah, I much prefer smaller petshops that don't sell pets at all... Although I wonder where people would buy their guinea pigs or hamsters if there was no petstore around?
Just curious about your statement... Hamsters are great pets, Gerbils on the other hand are a bit more vivacious. The people that purchase these two animals are moms with young kids who (mostly) have no idea how to care for them. Most think that they are small and cute and need no substance, or interacation at all.
I think that is awful. I am an animal lover....from ants to killer whales.... so I don't understand why "gerbils and hamsters are a different story...."? They have a right to live a nice, loving life just as you do. They might be small and may not mean much to you, but they may not feel the same way.
I just hate when people tend to think they are animal lovers, but exclude "certain" animals. What makes you think you are any better or have more right to a happy home than they do?
Also, if you really care....or not about these certain pets, why not write to these pet stores so they stop getting these pets from breeders....save a whole lot of trouble from people who buy them and not care for them. That would be doing some good.
I think that is awful. I am an animal lover....from ants to killer whales.... so I don't understand why "gerbils and hamsters are a different story...."? They have a right to live a nice, loving life just as you do. They might be small and may not mean much to you, but they may not feel the same way.
I just hate when people tend to think they are animal lovers, but exclude "certain" animals. What makes you think you are any better or have more right to a happy home than they do?
Also, if you really care....or not about these certain pets, why not write to these pet stores so they stop getting these pets from breeders....save a whole lot of trouble from people who buy them and not care for them. That would be doing some good.
That's been my experience too, that their employees are highly opinionated without being particularly credible or polite. I bought dog spray at one last year, and the checker asked why - I told her it was because my dog had been attacked and nearly killed by a pit bull, and the checker looked disbelieving and informed me that "pit bulls are such great dogs" like I was some whackjob lying about sweetum pitties to skew media statistics, instead of a customer whose dog had been hurt. Rotten worker, rotten human.