Petsmart alledgely leaves animals dyeing for days.

[fish_freak]

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-peta-petstore-0122,0,330053.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

Well I guess we always knew. Now there may be proof. We will have to see how this develope's

[YoFishboy]

Well, the "investigator" was a PETA member, so I would take this story with a huge grain of salt. Not exactly an impartial source.

[watermelon]

PETA, I never agreed how they thought about things..So, I do not find PETA crediable at all..

[Blueiz]

My honest opinion, that article is a load of bs..and PETA doesnt have a leg to stand on. They really should stop wasting the legal officials time. Its just another move to bring attention to themselves. The article states that the animals were being treated...and if they are coming in sick, helloooo....what is petsmart (the local store) suppose to do about it, other than treat the animals as they did.

Anytime you have a large number of animals housed together , they are going to fight, they are going to get sick, and they have the potential to die. Its only logical. Petsmart, like any other chain store houses these animals to sale, not to make pets out of them. Thats what the buyer purchases them for.

Even if the claims in the article are true , in which I do hope the employees did treat the animals, PETA is going to have a tough fight on there hands.

Maybe I have a bit of a higher understanding because of my line of work as to the how and why of things like this... Wonder what PETA would have to say about my job...lol.

Blue





Blue

[Corbin]

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/10624/Penn_and_Teller_PETA.html
Nuff said... even though its not the entire episode i think you get the idea :)

[Ghost_knife]

It's not petsmart, taken from link "PETA submitted a complaint today with the state's attorney's office asking for an investigation into PetCare's treatment of animals." petcare not petsmart.

[fish_freak]

Ya the live story on the news was better than this. It was petsmart Ghost they must have made a typo on that article. I believe them 100% but I also believe that they picked the store's that they investigated very carefully. The petsmart closer to me is a fantastic store but the one in Manchester that they did one of the investigations at is awe full. I have pointed out dead animals and dead reptiles roting in the cages to them several times. The place is awfull and you don't want to know about there fish department. I stay away from this particular location. Personally Petsmart is my favorite chain store but like all places some have bad apples.

Heres another link to more about it.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0123biz-petsmart0123.html
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5974325&nav=3YeX

[Ghost_knife]

pardon my acusation then, my petsmart dosnt carry the smaller mammals, they only have fish and Reptiles. they do take fantastic care of them all. nothing dead and I am in there quite often

[sumthin fishy]

It still pisses me of that they worry about the small fuzzy things, and seem to have no qualms against all the fish that die, or are sold to less than proper homes. Mabey Ill give peta a call and tell them they are jerks for only protecting critters people thing are "cute"

[Blueiz]

Is this possibly a franchise business?

I agree that if they have rotting animals in the cage, something should be done. However if its that bad..why are the doors still open? I dont think there is a single person that would buy stuff from a petstore tha has a large quantity of dead rotting things in there cages or tanks... Sounds like the humane society should be in on this, and if things were that obvious..they wouldnt have to send someone in undercover..

Just my 2 cents,
Blue

[jm1212]

My honest opinion, that article is a load of bs..and PETA doesnt have a leg to stand on. They really should stop wasting the legal officials time. Its just another move to bring attention to themselves. The article states that the animals were being treated...and if they are coming in sick, helloooo....what is petsmart (the local store) suppose to do about it, other than treat the animals as they did.

Anytime you have a large number of animals housed together , they are going to fight, they are going to get sick, and they have the potential to die. Its only logical. Petsmart, like any other chain store houses these animals to sale, not to make pets out of them. Thats what the buyer purchases them for.

Even if the claims in the article are true , in which I do hope the employees did treat the animals, PETA is going to have a tough fight on there hands.

Maybe I have a bit of a higher understanding because of my line of work as to the how and why of things like this... Wonder what PETA would have to say about my job...lol.

Blue





Blue
agreed 100%

[fish_freak]

Is this possibly a franchise business?

I agree that if they have rotting animals in the cage, something should be done. However if its that bad..why are the doors still open? I dont think there is a single person that would buy stuff from a petstore tha has a large quantity of dead rotting things in there cages or tanks... Sounds like the humane society should be in on this, and if things were that obvious..they wouldnt have to send someone in undercover..

Just my 2 cents,
Blue

I have know idea if the tanks are full or rotting animals. I have only seen lizards rotting ussualy the anole's, and hermit crab's. My guess is that under the heat lights once they die they shrivel up fast. Ive seen dead hampsters on two visit's there. Im sure that these animals are not left there forever as I see them turning the cages quite often but this one store just stinks.



It still pisses me of that they worry about the small fuzzy things, and seem to have no qualms against all the fish that die, or are sold to less than proper homes. Mabey Ill give peta a call and tell them they are jerks for only protecting critters people thing are "cute"

I completely agree. The problem with fish in my eyes anyhow is that they are much more fragile than a mammal or most reptile's and you can't always blame the retailer, same as with other animal's, because they come from a breeding center of from the wild. My local petco went through a real bad streak about 6 months ago where everything they ordered in the fish department was sick when it came in. All there stock came from segrest farm's so maybe there was an outbreak there. They way I look at it is that ya a lot of fish die but as long as the store does all it can to keep them alive when they are there and treat's them when there sick then I don't feel I can complain unless I only buy fish from local breeder's so I stop my support of the fish pet trade. The same can be said for all other animal's as well. People who complain about puppy' mills condition's should only buy dogs from a local breeder not a chain store.

[beefsteak]

OK, for clarification, Pet Care is a department in PetSmart. It's the department that cares for the animals. I work in the Pet Care department.

I have read that article and while it is true that a PETA member went undercover at a PetSmart, took a bunch of pictures of dying animals in one of our Isolation rooms, and that the copies they made of our Pet Treatment logs are real, some of the facts are twisted me thinks.

We do have an Isolation room were sick animals go. They go to the vet, recieve antibiotics and get treated for as long as need be. Sometimes, we have animals that have permanent problems. As long as they can live comfortably with these problems, they are adopted out to employees or customers.

Our hamsters we recieve, half of them are usually in poor condition and within three days of arriving and being in quarantine come down with wet tail. Wet tail is highly contagious and a small animal like a hamster can die from it within 24 hours. We treat our hamsters for wet tail, but truth be told, more die than recover from it. I can honestly say though, that we do everything possible to make sure our animals make a full recovery. On the store level, we are not pleased with the condition we often recieve our animals in, but until they develop stricter standards for the breeding and shipping of these animals, this is they way it will remain and these animals need someone to care for them.

It's sad, very sad, but I'm a bit suspicious about the claim that they refused to take an animal to the vet. When one of our chinchillas became ill for example it was rushed to the vet immediately in the middle of a busy day.

PETA is nothing, but a group of extremists and hypocrits, many of whom are in court right now facing charges of going around to animal shelters, picking up countless dogs and cats, killing them, and dumping their bodies in the dumpster to save them from the "horrible fate" of being someone's pet.

Take everything they say with a very large dose of salt.

[jm1212]

well said. you should publish that in the paper