Complaint / Review
Petland
I work (ed) there, trust me, i know

So i started working at petland about 8 months ago and it didnt take me long to realize that i might need to re-think my decision to work there..

-first off, i have seen employees lie about what a dogs breed is, like, once a customer was looking for something like a cavapoo but all we had were cavachons, so they just lied to the customers to try and get them to buy the puppy.

-after researching a little, it seems that some of the puppies DO come from accused "puppy mills" like from breeder, Becky Franks.

-they have dogs who get thingsa like ring worm, and the course of action to take care of it, is to shove a dog in a "isolation" cage where it away from all other animals and humans, and the ring worm does get treated but i've seen dogs in there for over a month that didnt get played with the WHOLE time, and that also never got bathed at all (and you can imagine how dirty a puppy could get in sunch a small cage)

-they have dogs that get awful diseases like Parvo and usually theyl get the test to make sure thats what they have, and then they just get taken care of by the staff, which, by the way, has no veterinary experience. So i've seen many puppies die without even visiting the vets office to see if they could take care of it.

-they sell dogs who they know have kennel cough, no matter how bad it is.

-if you went into the back, there are dogs who havent been bathed since they came to the store over a month ago.

-go check the freezer.

-the staff likes to come into the back/kennel area and complain about the customers (with an awful use of language)

-they have customers dogs come in sometimes and stay at the store if the puppy is sick, and that whole time, no one plays with the puppy, or bathes it. Sometimes the puppy will have pooped then allowed to walk in it for hours before the cage gets cleaned out.

-its a family owned business and anyone in the family gets paid about 10x more than anyone else at the store, which i know is not illegal but its still wrong. Especially when some of those members cant/dont perform their jobs correctly...

-i understand that dogs are special, but what puppy is worth more than my $3,400 car? Seriously... Thats stupid.

Well, i think thats it, i know all of these things because i currently work there (but after doing alot of researching tonight i am quitting tomorrow)
well thanks for your time!!!