my favorite pet store under fire?????
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Whatch the other parameters its not the murkyness killing them. I have 150 tanks I see how fish react when they are in different water. How do you think we get most of these guys to spawn. By dumping completly different water into there fine little tank. It stirs everything up and turns them on. Dirty nasty little fish are dirty birdies.
Okay, folks. Lets get the thread back on track about the OP's LFS having some cleaning issues and save the pet breeding issues for a more proper forum.
Thanks!
It should not be necessary to repeat this.
ah, let it go mods. as long as people dont get too fired up about this i realy dont care. this link was about dogs more that fish. once again aslong as somebody doesnt get too mad/fired up, let it go.
EDIT: let them talk about breeding. i dont care!
EDIT: let them talk about breeding. i dont care!
It sucks that people judge the store before they really find out what is going on. My favorite LFS could probably be a bit cleaner (some algae in tanks, floors a bit dirty, basically normal stuff) but I've only had one fish from there die (it was a cory that died after one day). And even that was over a year ago now.
I have the same issues with my local lfs. I love the way they keep their fish, but why do they have to sell dogs and cats that obviously came from puppy/kitten mills when we have so many that are waiting at shelters. The one thing I admire about the big store chains is that they offer cats for adoption from local shelter instead of stocking from the puppy/kitten mills.
Originally Posted by Reframer
I have the same issues with my local lfs. I love the way they keep their fish, but why do they have to sell dogs and cats that obviously came from puppy/kitten mills when we have so many that are waiting at shelters. The one thing I admire about the big store chains is that they offer cats for adoption from local shelter instead of stocking from the puppy/kitten mills.
problem is not so much the stores as the people that buy them ( Pets ), then decide they dont want them or cant keep them , so this then becomes the fault of the LPS and the larger breeders....
Yet another inconvient truth
Me personally i dont buy from stores, every single dog i have had after my first dog King (AKC Reg. Wire Haired Fox Terrier my childhood dog, lost him to old age) has been a rescue.
Mogley & Mahogony ( paired Amer. Rotteilers Lost one to a snake bite, and one to Hip displacia )
Rohan (called him Fluffy ) a 4 yo 180 lb German Rottweiler( never got over the fact he was no lap dog any more, and my greatest heartbreak ) funny how no one kidded him abut his nickname, and his pet Dog Max a Black Lab.
Nikki ( corgi, yeah a bit of a shift there in size because i didnt think i could stand to loose another Rottweiler, and she turned into the third biggest heartbreak, she got loose one day from the wife)
and our current Buster ( Great Dane/Boxer ) Yes he has become my papi all 63 pounds of his goofyness.
All rescues/castoff's and not a bad one in the lot. Their ending up in a shelter was not the fault of any mass breeder or LPS ( Rohan was the sole exception, he came from a "reputable breeder" but he was damaged goods to them , "just to dang big", so was turned into a shelter with injuries, and the breeder refused to pay the bill). His Loss Our Gain.
Kudos to you for all the rescues. However...
...I don't think anyone here would consider those the actions of a respectable breeder. No one is defending such practices.
Puppy mills are at the bottom of the barrel as far as animal welfare is concerned. That doesn't mean that every independent breeder is an angel, but a lot of them do better by their dogs than the mills do.
My understanding is that if you really do it right, you can't make much of a living from breeding dogs. So anyone who breeds or sells dogs in order to make money is probably cutting corners somewhere. I'm not saying every breeder is mistreating their animals, just that it's hard to make much money if you really are treating them well.
Personally, I don't think anyone should be breeding dogs, even as a hobby, when there are so many being killed every day for lack of a home, but that's a somewhat separate issue and one on which I think reasonable people can disagree. Breeding dogs for profit, though, just seems downright wrong.
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...I don't think anyone here would consider those the actions of a respectable breeder. No one is defending such practices.
Puppy mills are at the bottom of the barrel as far as animal welfare is concerned. That doesn't mean that every independent breeder is an angel, but a lot of them do better by their dogs than the mills do.
My understanding is that if you really do it right, you can't make much of a living from breeding dogs. So anyone who breeds or sells dogs in order to make money is probably cutting corners somewhere. I'm not saying every breeder is mistreating their animals, just that it's hard to make much money if you really are treating them well.
Personally, I don't think anyone should be breeding dogs, even as a hobby, when there are so many being killed every day for lack of a home, but that's a somewhat separate issue and one on which I think reasonable people can disagree. Breeding dogs for profit, though, just seems downright wrong.
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kjr928
Go fish yourself.
Sorry, but I believe any pet stores willing to sell puppies are guilty.
We can thank all the pet stores who sell puppies for puppy mills and the horrible suffering that goes on at them. Pet stores know full well what's going on but the do it anyway because they do not care.
Two thumbs down. I hope they close his shop.
We can thank all the pet stores who sell puppies for puppy mills and the horrible suffering that goes on at them. Pet stores know full well what's going on but the do it anyway because they do not care.
Two thumbs down. I hope they close his shop.
