So you think your pet store is bad?
I've been reading a lot of threads lately about people who go to crappy pet stores and complain about them on here and other places. I just wanted to show you a local pet store we are trying to get shut down. How they can maintain thier business license is hard enough to fathom, but how they aren't charged with outright cruelty is beyond mind boggling. So far our efforts have failed and every phone call and email we've sent to various agencies have been in vain. Tomorrow I am going to do something I never thought I would do. I'm not a fan of groups such as PeTA and HSUS, but I believe that maybe they will be able to help since every other avenue we have tried has failed.
These pics are just a small glimpse of the horrors that go on at this pet shop. I was only able to snap a few candid photos with my cell phone when the owner was talking to my wife. Animals are left dead in cages to slowly rot away while the other animals walk or slither all over thier rotting remains and years worth of leftover fecal matter. Unfortunately I haven't gotten the opportunity to film much of what goes on here because the owner will stalk you all over the store and is never more than 6 feet away.
Look! They cleaned up for us! This is the extent of the cleaning that goes on in this place.
If you could only see all the caked on bird crap and stuff floating in his water. He was all feathers the day they got him. He plucked all his feathers out from stress.
There was a liquified dead gecko behind that log deal. He had been there a while. In the anole/tree frog tank there is ALWAYS a couple dead ones dissolving in the water.
One of the few animals that had water. Looks refreshing, doesn't it?
Corn. They put a live rat in there with it while we were there. We came back a few days later to try and get more pics and the same rat was still in the tank with the corn and had chewed it up pretty good.
Close up of some of wounds. I bet that crushed walnut and leftover poop feels great in that rat bite! I confronted the owner and she claimed it wasn't a big deal. It will come out in a shed or two. This snake died shortly after and received no medical care.
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