I worked at petland for only a few monthes and what I saw will continually haunt me. This is not focused on all petlands because that is like saying that all blond haired, blue eyed girls have more fun. Simplistic, but hardly the case.
There was severe abuse to the puppies behind the scenes, and general neglect to all the small animals in the store.
For example, when giving a 6 week old pug his de worming medicine, he bit one of the employees and was thrown against the wall in the back room for it, before dropping him back into his little two by two cell. When I went to check on the poor thing, it was visably shaking and stared at me absolutely terrified of what I would do to him. All of this was done in front of the current manager on duty.
There were also gerbils that werent properly introduced to the enviroment and in the end it caused their death. Let me explain, when a unfimiliar gerbil comes into the general vicinity of the 'clan' they will basically tear it apart. I saw several of the rodents set aside and out of the way to die after their entrails were spread across the floor of the holding cell.
Birds that had no right to even be housed together were and some were severely injured and even killed by their roomates. The Mocaw was left out for children to tug on his tail and taunt him to no end.
The final draw for me was when we sold a rabbit born and bred to be in a loving home to become a feeder for a particularly large python. I understand the snake had to eat, we all do, but this bunny was so the owner could 'save money' and not buy the feeder rats born for the purpose.
Maybe Im just too much of an animal rights person and this is 'normal' for most petstores. Although I work now at petsmart and am very happy with the treatment and quality of those animals. I just wanted the world to know what goes on behind those closed doors
PS. And those puppies that come from 'local' breeders, are only local if you live in Michigan, Ohio, Mississippi etc. Which are all very well known for their abundance in puppy mills. To think those puppies are packed up in Semi Trucks and driven across the country and still love you just as much for all thats been done to them. Let the world know.
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