Quote Originally Posted by wolfy-hound View Post
Of course there are bad ones. Just like there's bad people who keep snakes and starve them or let them die of cold because they won't heat them in winter, or just don't care.

That wouldn't make it right for HSUS to come barging into one of our houses and confiscate all our snakes just because we have over say.. 20 snakes.

If someone is breaking the law, obviously they are to be held accountable. If it's over the limit of dogs, or neglecting them, or fighting them.. then the law is perfectly in line to come in and make things right.

HSUS has gone into places and screwed the people over royally in order to grab a few headlines and funds. Maybe not every time, but they've done it before, and god knows they'll do it again. They've seized animals from a place while admitting in print that 'the dogs were not in bad shape', and it ended up being a illegal seizure, and they STILL dumped all the animals on local shelters without offering any of their 100 million dollars to support their care.

HSUS is a private organization who tries to act like they have full authority of the police. I'll never support them. I'll support my local rescue or shelter when they have to deal with the fallout, but NEVER HSUS.

So true.

I have only ever been to one Petland. But that store was clean, with healthy animals, and no dogs/cats for sale. I had no problem with it.

Many people are so upset about chain stores, just because they are chain stores. I have seen very bad private mom n' pop stores just as well.

And the HSUS.. you said it Wolfy.