Stop petsmart from selling live birds!

[jdjd]

Wow, thats horrible! I agree that Petsmart should not only stop selling birds, but rats, mice, rabbits, and all the other critters in there. Their Bearded Dragon was "healthy" said the worker there. It was half dead laying by its bowl. Later I asked if someone could look at it. After several attempts, they took it out of its cage. Frozen solid....any one guess its dead? That just shows how much they know about taking care of the more exotic pets... What does the shaking mean? Becuase I think my smallest pigeon was also shaking the other day... after a bath, so I thought he was just a little cold?

[Lovebirds]

A couple of years ago, a girl that lived close to me, Rebekah, adopted Dory. Some of you may remember. Anyway..........she was into hamsters, gerbils, and the like. She raised them, showed them at one time and judged them. She rode down to NC with me one day and we went to Petsmart. Now, I haven't been in a LOT of these stores, but I've been in a few. The cages always looked clean to me. The animals looked healthy as far as I knew and could tell. When we went in the Petsmart in Winston-Salem, it looked no different to me. However, Rebekah goes into that little middle section between the hamster cages with one of the employees, and spots hamster after hamster with "wet tail".......I'd never even heard of wet tail. She made the employee take the hamsters out and he took them in the back. After that, I don't know what happened to them.
My point is, the pet stores are SUPPOSED to look clean.........the animals are SUPPOSED to look happy and healthy..........that's how they sell them in the first place. They aren't overcrowed to where they are stepping on each other. It's not what we see...............that's made to be appealing to the average patron.........it's what's going on behind the scenes that we DON'T see......what these "cute", "happy" little animals went through BEFORE they were put on display to attract that little 5 year old girls attention.
It just makes me sick..........

[jojo67]

Just signed, feel so sickened when i see animals treated this way, any place like petsmart should by law have independant vets to inspect places like this,

[xxmoxiexx]

Lovebirds, couldnt of said it better! That is what petstores do, and the girl that worked at one by my house, petsmart, said that they have a powdered antibiotics, and anytime one is sick they give them that, never knowing what is fully wrong, just HOPING the powdered antibiotics will work. This antibiotic is given to the fish, to the mice, the birds, everything. No different antibiotics for different species even.
Pet stores are different store to store, but they are a chain, and i dont support these BREEDING facilities these animals are coming from. Maybe those videos are to rile people up, but it IS a REALITY at those places, and much worse then that.
RESPONSIBLE pet stores KNOW their breeders, visit them often, and do not bye from breeding facilities that are ONLY about money.
I wont argue that PETA can get a bit crazy and over the top as Sprit wings said, but these days you have to choose a president based on "the lesser evil," and i would support PETA before PETSMART anyday. I agree with PETA on many things, other things i do not. And, i HIGHLY doubt the day PETA saves farm animals and animals in labs is near, when that day comes i might worry about them coming after my house pets.
I dont agree with culling of animals though. Sorry, JMO.
Why do we import these wild birds when there are SO MANY wonderful pigeons RIGHT out our doors in need of homes? Shelters are FULL of abandoned birds. I myself didnt realize how bad SOME pet stores could be until recently, and i have seen it for myself, and heard it from trusted friends, not just PETA websites.
I appreciate everyone who has signed, and if you dont, thats fine too, thats our right.

Petsmart is VERY uneducated about proper handling of the animals it sells. My close friend breeds betta fish and sells them, she only sells to pre-screened people, never to petstores, and she is hoping to open her own petstore one day soon and staff only people educated about animals.
I went to petsmart with her a few weeks ago, and she pointed out the sick betta fish, and this was a store i thought was a better one. She said people often dont like betta because they label them "lazy fish," yet people keep them in TINY bowls basically, and all the aquarioums being sold and labelled as BETTA tanks were TINY, they have the mistaken belief that betta need little water, little space, because they often live in small puddles in the wild. But in the wild they TRAVEL puddle to puddle, she pointed out the sick ones, and said she used to ask to be given the sick ones, or sometimes buy them, but she refuses to buy them now because that money will be used to buy more, and she would be supporting the suffering of more animals.
I now hate that place, especially after so much volunteer work at animal shelters, often seeing these animals being put to sleep, the same animals for sale at these stores. Its a sick cycle, PETSMART doesnt educate people on the proper care of the animals they sell, the people buying them later realize how much money, time and care they take, they neglect or abandon them, the shelters get them. At the exact time a bird or hamster is being put to sleep at the shelter, one is being sold for profit at a petsmart or other petstore down the street. One just died, while another is being sold. That money is used to "breed" more "product," Why are we breeding so many animals when our shelters are FULL of animals in need of homes?

[Jay3]

I have to agree with Charis. Most pet shops do not do a good job of caring for the animals they sell. And they certainly should teach people about the care of the animal, after they take it home. But they don't.
My husband and I stopped into a pet shop a couple of towns from here, and the little puppies in this big pen were filthy, and had no water what so ever. It was summer time, and very hot in the store. I told them they pups needed water. They kind of blew me off, until I said that they could be reported. They moved then, but the next time we stopped by, just to check on them, the same thing. I reported them. As for the Petsmart thing, I posted it on my web page on spaces.live.com. Most animals sold in petshops come from mills, or other bad beginnings. If people would just not buy from them, these horrible mills would go out of business. So sad.

[xxmoxiexx]

JAY3, where in massachusetts are you? I am here too!
Where was this petstore that actually sells puppies? Many stores dont sell puppies anymore, so just curious...

[Jay3]

Originally Posted by xxmoxiexx

JAY3, where in massachusetts are you? I am here too!
Where was this petstore that actually sells puppies? Many stores dont sell puppies anymore, so just curious...

I live in Blackstone. Do you know where that is? About 45 minutes outside of Worcester. Where are you? Anyway, the petshop I spoke of is in Franklin. On route 140 just as you go into Franklin. I don't remember the name of it, but I could find out. I don't go there, as I can't stand to see animals mistreated this way. There is another place in Woonsocket R.I. not far from here that sells animals. They say that they don't get them from mills, as I have asked. I'm not sure though.

[KIPPY]

I signed the petition but I don't think I can stop shopping there. I'm in there like once a week between my birds and my dog.
I have noticed that their birds have not been for sale forever and a day now. I do check out the birds and the hamsters and the living quarters seem to look clean and the animals look well. I will look more thoroughly and with the petition that will keep Petsmart on their toes.
Not able to watch the video, the picture was enough for me. I use to have hamsters and mice when I was a kid.

[spirit wings]

yes it is all about money!.....this information needs to be in the media..it will not stop, unless people stop buying these critters from pet stores. they (customer) are ignorant to the breeding warehouses and such....it has to be stopped someway....they may look fine in the store but customers don't know about the way they are husseld like inventory...has'nt changed in the time when I worked at such a place...

[xxmoxiexx]

Jay3, I live in Chelsea, RIGHT outside of boston. Anyways, Chelsea is NOTORIOUS as being a bad neighborhood, but it is becoming gentrified now, and an affordable place to live close to Boston and the schools for students like me! Hence, students/artists first, gentrification second!
No, i have no idea where you live, but am not originally from Boston, so dont know the state well.
Oh, if you could find out the name of either stores, or even BOTH, i would be most thankful. A close friends roommate volunteers for a rescue place for dogs and puppies, and they do a lot of activism. Usually they go into a petstore with a health inspector and DEMAND that they are kept in better conditions. I mean, it's sad they cant do as much as STOPPING the puppy mills, but they do what they can.
She always asks me to find out about any stores selling puppyies, and one store stopped selling puppies up here because of the work they did, because time and time again they went in and the puppies were kept in horrid conditions. Granted, the pen in the front that they were kept in looked nice, but the pen in the back of the store was horrible! Poop in the water/food dishes, flies everywhere. They werent being walked, then the ones not sold were given to kill shelters, and by then they were all way too unsocialized to be adopted, so off to the euthanasia room they went...
So sad.....

[Jay3]

Oh, that's horrible! Chelsea huh? I grew up in Newton. Sure you must know where that is. Not far from Boston. I'll try to get the name for you. Thanks for getting back to me. If I should come across any more places who keep their animals that way, I'll know who to go to. Thanks. Where do you hail from originally?

[Charis]

Originally Posted by Jay3

Oh, that's horrible! Chelsea huh? I grew up in Newton. Sure you must know where that is. Not far from Boston. I'll try to get the name for you. Thanks for getting back to me. If I should come across any more places who keep their animals that way, I'll know who to go to. Thanks. Where do you hail from originally?

Let me answer for her. She's from Washington State. Just a few miles up the Columbia river from Portland.

[Jay3]

Originally Posted by Charis

Let me answer for her. She's from Washington State. Just a few miles up the Columbia river from Portland.

Hi Charis. Thanks for the answer.

[jeepsterwannabe]

Originally Posted by xxmoxiexx

This is the same petsmart that got a pigeon in there before, and wouldnt let me try and catch it. They tried LASER POINTERS! Dummies. They ended up calling someone to get it, who, i dont know, i got kicked out. I would break open the seed bags and hide seed around the store for him to eat, so they caught me and kicked me out that day even though i offered to pay for the seed. pet stores are supposed to CARE about pets, and they do not, they are all about profit.

That sounds criminal.

[KIPPY]

That sounds criminal.

Wow, first post. Thanks for the input.

It is kind of a crazy thing to do but I've probably done crazier.

What's criminal is Petsmart neglecting the sick pets they sale.