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    Re: New edition

    Quote Originally Posted by LanceM View Post
    I work at a pet store where I live a customer came in and surrendered his vanilla BP so I told my manager I would take him.He has mites so my manager said we'll keep him at the store and treat the mites so my chocolate BP doesn't get them and also she'll take him to the herp.vet here in town on the companies dime to make sure nothing else is wrong.
    What a stand up gal
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    Re: Where would I report a pet store..?

    Quote Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl View Post
    WoW.
    I am refraining from what I really want to post.
    Instead of wasting everyones time here and there maybe you should do some research in your city and make some phone calls?
    If you saw what goes on in my city when it comes to animal control, you wouldn't be telling me to make phone calls. Honestly, I could bring them video proof of dog fighting, animals being beaten, etc. and nothing would most likely be done about it. As I said, animal control has been there before multiple times and nothing has been done. Go ahead and post what you're thinking, I'm not going to get upset about it. You're probably going to use a few insults, and basically say I should do the obvious thing and call animal control, which would just be a waste of time. Also, there are no legal ramifications as far as I'm concerned. I never signed any documents saying I wouldn't record, photograph, or anything else. Never signed anything about not having a phone on me either. Would be kind of stupid to get fired 3-4 days in before I can even get any evidence really. On top of that, I'm almost 100% sure what happens is, animal control comes in and says "Oh, the cages here are clean, no problem here." and leaves without checking behind the scenes at all.
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    Re: Where would I report a pet store..?

    Quote Originally Posted by Slim View Post
    And, if you don't plan on working there for long, sneak in a phone and take pictures.
    This part. Take pics and video and contact your local law enforcement agency.
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    Re: Where would I report a pet store..?

    Quote Originally Posted by Terrified of snakes View Post
    Also, there are no legal ramifications as far as I'm concerned. I never signed any documents saying I wouldn't record, photograph, or anything else. Never signed anything about not having a phone on me either.
    You don't have to sign anything. You agreed to company policy and punching the clock or taking your first check enters you into contract.
    If you REALLY wanted to do more then you would not be wasting you time just working for them.
    You would be on the phone with your local animal control and/or figuring out why they are not doing anything with the store.
    You come here asking for help in YOUR city and then don't like being told to figure out who to call.
    Its not really that hard to figure out if you tried doing it the correct way.
    More power to you though.

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    Re: Where would I report a pet store..?

    Quote Originally Posted by StephenT View Post
    Whatever you do please be smart about it. You're representing the reptile hobby when you go on a venture like this.
    This. Yes, please by all means help those animals. But please dont contact the media, PETA, or anybody like that or itll become a big ole mess. And also like someone else said, do whats right, but be careful doing it....you could end up getting sued by these people. Maybe you could get some video and photos, then threaten the owner with them? Sometimes all it takes is a threat to involve the local authorities for someone to clean up their act. Id also contact your local USDA. They might be able to help.

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    Re: Where would I report a pet store..?

    Quote Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady View Post
    Sometimes all it takes is a threat to involve the local authorities for someone to clean up their act. Id also contact your local USDA. They might be able to help.

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    Or hey since you don't care about the job and really just care about the animals why don't you try to educate the owner and ask if you can get the pets up to your standards and then ask that he please try to keep it this way? Or something along those lines.

    Have an open discussion with the owner and try to change to root of the problem, obviously your local animal authorities don't believe the conditions are so appalling to order a shut down so why not try to change the outlook of the owner and you can use your time to help the animals.

    Pit is right though you did take a job and you are being paid to do that job so if the owner tells you to do something you must do it. Try to use the job to your advantage instead of trying to report the owner to little or no avail, try to educate and help the animals while getting paid!

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