Worthless Pet Stores!

I know I saw a post on here recently about the poor conditions of their reptile room and forgot what all it said. Anyways, I went to the pet store today to pick up mice and notice how awful of condition almost all of the reptiles cages were in. It was simply pathetic and the animals were clearly starving, sick, dehydrated, etc. etc. I want to do something about it but don't know who I could call about it. Anyway have some advise as to who I can call and complain? I live near Milwaukee, WI.

talk to the manager(s) call and make several complaints, could possibly use different names to make it seem as if more and more people are concerened, umm, idk, im sure others have better ideas on how to fix it.

Complain to the managers, and get their rep. numbers and names and then call corporate.

i live north of you a couple hours in wi, give me the number and il call and yell at some people!!!

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Originally Posted by deadsmiley

i live north of you a couple hours in wi, give me the number and il call and yell at some people!!!

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Calling and yelling isn't the most professional way to go about doing things. Most people aren't going to listen to someone who yells anyway. Might make YOU feel better, but it won't help the situation. ;)

I visited a privately owned pet store before and it was deplorable.

The puppies and birds and cats were ok... but the reptiles. Poor things litterally had mites crawling all over them. Every single snake was rubbing itself on whatever it could constantly to try and get the mites off.

I told the store manager and asked him to do something about it and he replied: "If you don't like it, get the hell out of my store."

I put a complaint in to animal control and never went back. I heard a few months later that they were fined for improper animal care and a bunch of their reptiles were confiscated. Serves em' right.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Calling and yelling isn't the most professional way to go about doing things. Most people aren't going to listen to someone who yells anyway. Might make YOU feel better, but it won't help the situation. ;)

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i didnt litteraly mean yell, i just meant that i would file a firm complaint :D

You could write or call your local news station and encourage them to take up the story of animal cruelty/neglect taking place in a local pet shop.

same here. i have one privately own pet store where i live. but he is the only place that will sel me live feeders but his store is so nasty and all his animals are not taken good care of. all his reptiles have little cages and all there snakes are kept with two othere different types of snakes and some are living in little kritter creepers. and he sells cats for 30 dollars and there all skinny and sucked up. my gf bought a cat for her mom there and she had fleas and a week later she died. she went to a loving family always had food and water she always ate and was really loved and one morning her mom woke up and she died in her sleep. i would not recommend this store to anybody. i would rather get my snakes from petsmart or petco!

Reading the posts here is depressing...I wish more people that owned/worked at these stores cared more.

I'm lucky that the privately owned store that I get all of my snake stuff at, Speck's, is really good and clean and plus the guys that run the reptile section are snake owners themselves so that really helps. I've bought 3 of my 4 snakes from this place and would buy another from them without thinking twice.