I hope this isn't true - Petsmart

I got this email from Peta today..



I want you to be among the first to know about our breaking investigation of cruelty and animal abuse by multibillion-dollar retailer PetSmart.
What You Can Do

1. Please don't buy anything from PetSmart until it stops selling all animals.

2. Write to PetSmart and tell the company that you want the company to end the sale of all animals and sell animal supplies only.

3. If you visit a PetSmart store, check to make sure that the animals are being treated well. Find out how you can spot neglect or abuse at PetSmart.

4. Make an urgent donation to help support our campaigns and continue PETA's important investigative work.


Over a three-month period in two different stores, a PETA undercover investigator documented sickening conditions for small, helpless animals—including hamsters, rats, lizards, chinchillas, and birds. Our investigator found that animals were deprived of adequate veterinary care and were slowly dying—out of customers' sight in back rooms. More than 118 animals died over the course of the investigation.

You can take action today to stop this needless suffering of animals. Please help stop this cruelty.

For years, PetSmart has assured PETA that sick and injured animals in its 885 stores are given veterinary care when they need it. However, our investigation and reports from concerned customers at numerous other PetSmart stores have shown that PetSmart routinely sells sick and injured animals, including guinea pigs with eye and upper respiratory infections, sick and dying betta fish, and suffering birds. Among the birds PetSmart has sold are mite-infested parakeets, a cockatoo who was screaming and bobbing neurotically from stress, and a Jardin's parrot who was "very ill" in a "dirty cage with filthy water." And those are just the animals who customers can see.

When PETA first alerted PetSmart's corporate headquarters about the animal suffering our investigator had uncovered in the Manchester, Connecticut, store's back room, the company responded that the store has an outstanding "pet care team" and an "exceptional pet care record." However, our undercover video and photos reveal a very different story.

Please tell PetSmart that you want the company to act humanely and stop this cruel commerce.

PETA investigators have exposed hideous abuses inflicted on innocent animals in laboratories, factory farms, and anywhere else animals have suffered away from the eyes of a caring public. By working together with supporters like you who aren't afraid to speak up for animals, we've won many hard-fought victories that have improved the lives of millions—if not billions—of animals. Furthermore, we've helped change the way Fortune 500 corporations treat animals.

Today, we need you to speak up loud and clear once again.

Please tell PetSmart to end live-animal sales and focus on adopting out homeless animals from animal shelters and rescue groups. The animals suffering at PetSmart are depending on you!

Very truly yours,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

Re: I hope this isn't true - Petsmart

Unfortunately this is true of any store that sells live animals in any measure. Petco, Petland..all of them have "sick tanks" in the back that they put ill animals in so as not to infect the others. Unfortunately they do not normally have on-site veterinary care, and even those that do many times will not work directly with the animals to be sold unless it is a rare or very expensive animal. The workers in the store have basic first aid training and some disease care knowledge.

The other side of the coin is smaller mom & pop stores that will use vet care, but sell puppies & cats that come from mills.

I think although this is a good eye-opener, it is incorrectly directed at only PetSmart. I think in order to make a real change push for legislation that will more closely monitor any facility that sells live animals in any measure, and require proper veterinary care for those animals that need it.


Great Post!

Re: I hope this isn't true - Petsmart

Re: I hope this isn't true - Petsmart

Yeah I mean, I still love Petsmart I am just such a softie and wish I could rescue everything

Re: I hope this isn't true - Petsmart

Posted by MrsTC

Yeah I mean, I still love Petsmart I am just such a softie and wish I could rescue everything

Re: I hope this isn't true - Petsmart

I go to all those stores and just look at the kittens and feel bad that I can't take any with me cause my cat would go bonkers.

Re: I hope this isn't true - Petsmart

we got bonnie & clyde from Petsmart
The kittens were treated great but ive seen plenty dead rodents and birds left unattended in their cages. Even when I say something and come back a day later the dead animal is still there.

We have 3 cats and still look at the kittens everytime we go in. we just can't adopt anymore cats!!

but we love our family