I know not all stores are run like this but some are. I can say with absolute certainty that she weigh cost over profit with every decision she made wether it was now much to stock or if treating or euthanizing an animal was cost effective. It was horrible working there and being told to take kittens to the vet to be put down because they had flees. (man hours and flee control was more costly than euthanizing them) I used to race around finding homes for them and then having to beg the RVT to make a bogus bill so I didn't get in trouble for giving away kittens. I try not to buy animals or product from stores than sell living things they need for running a business will come to odds with the welfare of the creatures who are being sold sooner or later. I would like to believe that stores make the moral decision and will applaud any that do but I have become jaded and simply don't trust them to do so. Breeders are different as so much relies on reputation that that must take precedence over profit sometimes.