Worthless Pet Stores!

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Originally Posted by Quiet Tempest

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.

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Yes, an excellent suggestion. I mean we do need more negative attention, don't we? Another place abusing animals, reptiles in particular, is just the thing we need to see on more local news casts.

Why bother with animal regulation or the humane society, NOT hsus, but the local guys who are supposed to oversee pet stores and the animals in them, why do that?

No point in it at all if you can get some TV time.

If it's a corporate store, write a letter to their main office. If it's a privately owned store, quit going and find out who the local authorities are and turn them in.

Honestly, It breaks me heart when I walk into 90% of commercial petstores. I Dont even buy my mices for my snakes there anymore, because when i walk in I immediatly feel guilty if i dont buy every single animal. And obviously thats not the right thing to do. I eventually found a breeder in my area, who had a store. If the animals arent being treated well, dont buy from the store. Its only rewarding the stores bad behavior.

Also, try buying a pet from the store, (one that requires a permit) alot of commercial pet stores, (pet co, petsmart) wont give you a permit. And if that animal dies, and you come back. Theyll easily say "You never signed a permit" that might only apply in the new jersey area. But i had bought a gracefull chameleon, and I saw it was sick when i purchased it. I tried to get him back to health and failed. I returned to the petstore with the chameleon and the man says "THIS ISNT FROM HERE GET OUT". Then my dad walked in. and well lets just say the problem settled itself.
And when you tell corporate there not giving out permits. :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: will hit the fan..

Final point, Just dont reward local stores for bad behavior. If theyre going to treat there animals like :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:. Dont buy from them. And tell your friends not to buy from them.

-Elliot

I'm just curious, which shop was it? I live in Milwaukee, so I might've been to that store before. In addition, two complaints are better than one. If you aren't allowed to post the name and location of the store (some forums don't allow this), just PM me.

There are some pretty crappy stores in the area, and then some amazing ones too. It really depends on the employees and management.

I had the same problem. I went to a large chain pet store to pick up dog food, and of course I had to check out the reptiles. the ball pythons were COVERED in mites. It was horrible. I went on to their website and went to customer service and emailed a complaint. The district manager ended up personally calling me and said they had cleared out the animals to take to a vet and they fired the person who was supposed to be in charge (dont know how true this was, but at least I know someone actually read my complaint)