Yesterday we went to a fish/pet shop that my mom has been going to since she was a kid. It used to be the best fish shop you have ever seen and so clean and the owners were always talking about the animals and you could tell they truely loved them. When we got there, they had moved into a smaller section of the building and had a new name, so we thought they might have changed names. When we walked in the store it was a whole nother story. The first thing you see is 3 cages, one with ferrets and one with sugar gliders (cant think what was in the other one) and a cat sitting on top of the ferret cage with its paw down in the cage trying to get to the ferrets. Then all the products they had for sale looked like someone just threw them on the shelf. When you walk around the corner to see the fish, the first thing you see is a feeder goldfish tank thats about 6 feet long half full of very brown water and no filter with a ton of dead and alive goldfish in it, that was first strike for me. We walked down a little further and the owner was trying to talk these other people into buying a few fish, in the tank that they were looking at there was a little tube like fish (dont know the name) and it was swimming upside down like it was dying. We asked about that and the lady said they just got them in this morning and ever since she put him in the tank hes been doing that? The other owner said to take him out and put him in the tank on the counter, again super dirty water. We walked around a little further and in the back room next to a window so you could see was a 30 gallon tank with more feeder fish. The water was brown and the bottom of the tank was covered by about 3 inches of dead fish with more piles of dead fisl floating on the top and the fish that were alive were all in the corner and to me looked like they were trying everything they could to get out of the tank. That went strait to strike 3, so we turned around and started to leave. When we got to the door the owner asked us it we saw anything we liked and when we told him no, he asked us if we have any critters. We said everything we had and when I mentioned BPs he asked "do you ever sell them? You could always sell them to me." I had just about blew up at this point, the rest of the day was just so bad. Whenever I go into a bad pet shop it makes me fell horible and ruins the rest of the day for me. I have NEVER seen a more digusting pet store and such horrible conditions in my life. I contacted the TN Spca about the shop and when she emailed me back, she had said she forwared my email to someone from Peta. IMHO I dont really like the thing peta are trying to do but I just hope they can do something about them.


Sorry for the long ming boggleing post, had to get it off my chest.