No problem I was just saying the difference. But also I wouldn't be to sure how reputable they are. You might want to rethink that. While it is their policy on the adoption of dogs and they are doing a good deed, they do sell other animals and don't keep them properly.
They do sell animals as a business.
They sell to just anyone, since its a business they don't care what type of life the animals get.
Most people who work their are boneheads and don't even know their own depart.
When my husband worked there it was over 10yrs ago or whatever but nothing much has changed. When he was there they wanted to put water dishes in with the Day Geckos who won't lap up water. They had a lot of stupidity with the reptiles and fish. This is just one example of stupidity. I have been in many petsmarts and petcos both and most people there are stupid when it comes to animals and most are all kept the same. Inproper conditions, inproper temperature, fed improperly and they don't know what they are talking about when you ask them a question.
The most recent one I went to was a petsmart in TX and there were kids working there 16yr olds who didn't know anything. I mean in the whole store. I was only in there about 20minutes or so but didn't see a single adult worker. 3 different people were complaining about their fish. One had them die at home (which could be their fault) but a boy working there was trying to catch some and they kept dying. He told the girl who was wheeling a cart and she said yeah I know its weird it kept happening to me yesterday. Then another guy was there with his grandma and they had got her a couple fish. But they were coming back to the fish section because he asked his Grandma if she wanted different fish because these look sick. They do not properly keep the retiles either and its very sad.
It is also the samething if you have ever seen Wal-Mart's fish section, not some place I normally visit but I was in a pinch and needed a fish for my snake and went to get one. They had brackish fish in with fresh water fish, the fish had ick and other problems, they had aggressive in with passive ones who were being picked to death, they had incorrect filtering systems, they have tropical fish in cold water, ect. Basically I'm surprised they were even living, but its no wonder there were lots of floaters, dead ones caught in the filter and most looked sickly.
We also went to another local pet store just to check it out. Very sick how they keep the pups in tiny cubes and the reptiles fed the wrong thing and not in the right temps and the ones that need humidity didn't have it either. They had a very large red tail in a tiny cage and 2 ball pythons in an tiny cage as well. The Bearded Dragons had soars. The fish were kept improperly just like any other. Most pet stores I've seen are bad. I've seen a few that are reputable but most of those are private owned and specific they don't deal in diverse animals. They don't do it as a major business, just as a hobby with a store front.
I love all animals and hate to see any suffer and while we deal mostly with dogs now my husband used to breed herps, do reef systems and aquariums among other things so of course it fustrates him to death how these animals are being treated. If you can't properly keep them you shouldn't have them whether you are the one selling them or the one buying them. Its like my Aunt feeding her sugar glider corn pops? OMG that is do wrong! Hubby was thinking of getting a mangrove in a few months but with the humidity they need he decided against it at this time and will just get another white throat. Its called making responsible choices for the wellness of the animals, but basically petsmart and petco and other pet stores are about the money they don't really care. I will not buy from a pet store only a specialized reputable breeder no matter what animal I'm getting.
Your cousin got the shih Tzu at the petstore? The one that died and had diabeties? If the dog had diabeties it wasn't fine. Thats a health problem. Sometimes you get lucky from a petstore just like a byb you might get a dog with minimal health problems and it got good genes but the percentages of healthy dogs coming from pet stores is very low. Its not impossible, but very unlikely. I've seen a lot with health and temperament problems. I've seen a few that were relatively fine. | 
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