im thinking of making a sign for petsmart, help!

Or grab a photo of a real rice paddy (you know, those large areas with water that pet stores like to call "mud puddles"), and print "This is the "mud puddle" we're from -- Please don't keep us in these small cups. Give us room to swim!" below it.

I think we should start wearing "FREE THE BETTAS" t-shirts.

After you post enough of those signs we'll probably have to free you to. Have you established your legal defense fund yet?

I'd like one of those shirts...

How about: Here at petsmart we take crappy care of our bettas and sell you plants that are guaranteed to die in your tank because they aren' t meant to be grown in aquariums.

Here, here! The Hornwort I bought from PetsMart is already dying, and it's only been a bloody week.

interesting because the plants I bought from petsmart are still alive and in fact, I've split the hornwort up so much it's overflowing in my 29, my 55, my 36, my 65 and now starting in a 10 and I'm a moron when it comes to plants. guess all petsmart's aren't created equal. Kyle

1) The bettas everyone buys in stores DO NOT come from Thailand. Whoever says that is wrong. All the bettas are commercially bred in tanks. The wild bettas are the "short fin" bettas that are brown with fins like females and have some blue and red in their fins and body.

2) Hans- do you work at Petsmart? (I honestly don't remember- I know you talk about it a bit but not sure). If so as a Petsmart employee it is your job to inform the customer about the fish. Does your Petsmart offer Care Sheets? If so, just give them those. I work at a local Petsmart and we always try to give a care sheet for each betta sold. The Petsmart I work at must be one of the better ones as we have really healthy and happy fish and plants.

Thats funny. I was going to post a topic similar to this a little while back. The Wal-Mart we have here has a similar sign up. Except that it says the opposite. The sign at my local Wal-Mart says that their bettas "thrive in the tiny cups that they are sold in".
Also stated are the following 'facts':

In their natural habitats when the mud puddles they live in dry up, they hop around to find a new puddle to live in. They have develped a special way of breathing that enables them to do this. Once they find a new puddle they fight with any males already occuppying the puddle until one dies and they can take over it.
They will thrive in the cups they are sold in and as well as any other smaller unit that we sell.

It also says many other things that rose my blood, but I dont remember some of it. I wish I had a picture of it, or I wish they had the post as hand outs. I'd like them to try prove to me that their source of info is a reliable one.