Dude, I never said ALL petstores are horrid...but most of them, based on outdated policies and idiot managers, are exactly as bad as this and other threads have stated they are.

I am VERY glad that you and your fellow pet care employees are trying the best you can with the crud they give you, I did the same thing at my store, but I was only one person with the occasional help of another. Every now and then, a Petsmart or Petco will actually hire people who know what they are doing and care about the animals...but sadly, that is not common practice. I know this first hand, at least at the store I worked for, because I met two potential new employees for our department as they were being 'interviewed': one was really knowledgeable and quite nice, and the other was a clueless high school student who just thought it 'would be neat to work at a petstore'. You would think the one in the know would have been hired...but nope. They took the kid on purpose so they wouldn't have another rebel (i.e. Me) on their hands.

Understand that when threads like this are started, there is a reason. That reason is that people who care, as most on these forums do, want to let new and old members alike know NOT to frequent these stores or buy animals from them. If the posts state that one or two stores are actually good, then people know it's ok to go to those. However, it's overwhelmingly true that 90-95% of Petsmart and Petco stores are hell on earth for animals with idiot managers and clueless employees repeating whatever myths they have heard. Sorry.