So you think your pet store is bad?

[babyknees]

i thought pet stores went through inspections to make sure they're meeting health and safety guidelines or something...

If they're anything like the inspections that I've seen done at restaurants then it's a joke.

It irks me whenever I see some idiot complain about places like PetCo or PetSmart.

I wouldn't call this splitting hairs:





Both victims of my local Petco.

Sadly I think most pet stores are probably terrible. There may be some that aren't but from what I've seen $$$ comes before the health of the animals. It makes me feel defeated and most efforts to change things seem futile.

Good luck. I hope you get them shut down even if you have to side with the devil.

[AK907]

If they're anything like the inspections that I've seen done at restaurants then it's a joke.


I wouldn't call this splitting hairs:





Both victims of my local Petco.

Sadly I think most pet stores are probably terrible. There may be some that aren't but from what I've seen $$$ comes before the health of the animals. It makes me feel defeated and most efforts to change things seem futile.

Good luck. I hope you get them shut down even if you have to side with the devil.

I've never had a bad experience at PetCo/PetSmart, but I'd imagine it does happen sometimes. I've only been to maybe a dozen or so around the country, so a very small percentage. I worked at a PetSmart twice and all the cages, even the fish tanks, were ALWAYS immaculately clean and generally well taken care of, save maybe a few minor, non life threatening issues. I did see a dead leopard gecko once at a PetCo, but after informing the staff it was immediately removed and the cage cleaned. Maybe I've just been lucky and only visited the good ones. Most of the whining I've heard were not to the extent your pictures show, mainly just simple stuff like the temps were 5 degrees too cool or the cages were smaller than they should be or someone pooped in the cage and it wasn't immediately cleaned up.