are you for or against pet stores?
i used to work for one for 2.5 years.....
we didnt sell dogs tho. and i say thank god.

i dont believe in puppy mills.

whats your view?

I'm against "pet stores" for the most part. I hate to see puppies or kittens being sold in pet stores nor do I care for other animals being sold there. I prefer to pet supply stores with shelter adoption programs instead.

We got our basset from a local pet store. It was horrible, They fed him 1/2 cup of kibble twic e a day and 1/2 cup of water twice a day. he is basset and he was underweight.
When we brought him home, we promised him he would always have to eat.
So he ate his fill, then we refille dhis bowl and he ate again, and the we refilled and he ate again.. the next bowl he left alone. he also had milk and water.
The we unrolled his soft sleeping bag, rubbed some moisturizer first aid cream on his handies and feet and he slept.
Fartfignugen was older an no one had adopted him, so hubby negotiated a price. he was getting ready to go to teh local shelter. If we wasnt adopted in two weeks after that he was going to be euthanized.
That shcoked me somuch.
So they dropped his price ofrfom 675 to 425, they gave us a big bag of kibble, and we came to find out with his papers that he is from champion AKC parents.

they just closedf down two puppie exotic animal mills here in tn.
I prefer to get our babies the odl fashioned way, they find us. Thats how we got Brown sugar.

I'd rather not see animals for sale in stores.

I do like a good pet supply store for the selection of food, etc. I like when one of these stores helps to locate a home for a pet, as opposed to breeding pets for sale.

All of mine are rescues, but my daughter works for a major kennel that supplies these puppies and I have to say, those puppies are more pampered and monitored than my dogs are. :???: At least while they are there.

My daughter works in the hospital section and I worked there for a short time. They get full bottles of water twice a day that has a nutritional supplement in it and get fed kibble twice a day - about a cup for the bigger dogs and 1/2 cup for the toys each time. Nutritional gels. Shots. Baths. Nail clippings. Twice daily cleaning of cages with anti-bacterial/anti-fungal solution. Room steamers 3 times a day with medicine in the water. Full physicals by on-staff licensed veterinarians when they come in and before they go out. Her boyfriend works in the general kennels and he says it is the same except for the steamers, and the shots are just the normal vaccinations.

This company gets the puppies from breeders in the area and certifies them before going to the pet stores. Any puppies that do not pass their inspection either go back to the breeder or, if the breeder doesn't want them, are given to the employees. And these people will send a puppy back even if all they have is ringworm!! The company, also, encourages its employees to play with the puppies so they will be used to human interaction.

I agree. Puppies should not be sold in stores and should only be bought from the breeders or from rescues preferably. But breeders are usually in the country and the buyers are in the cities and metropolises. As long as people will buy them this way, the breeders will continue to send them to the stores. And stores have some mucky-muck up in an office someplace that has told them it isn't good salesmanship or good business practice to let the public see the puppies eating or with messy food in their displays.

But a beagle should have been fed 1 cup at a time.

When I see animals in pet stores, it makes me want to cry. I wish they could all be shut down. People get caught up in wanting a cute puppy and so they buy one and keep the store going. If everyone would get their dogs from rescue, or at the very least from a REPUTABLE and ethical breeder, the stores would die out. I'll do a happy dance when that day comes.

It makes me want to cry too... BUT

Think about it this way. If no one would buy the puppy from a pet store where would that puppy go? What would happen to that puppy?

You cannot just discriminate against a puppy because it is in a pet store. Why shouldn't you buy it if you feel bad for it? Unfortunately the pet stores know this and play off of it.

I feel pity for each and every dog that is in one. I would also like to add, though-- A place in the mall that sold puppies is now shut down. :mrgreen:

We have a few local pet stores (family owned and run) which pamper their dogs and all of their animals for that matter. Great bunch of people.

I'm against pet store. For me they used animals to earn money or for source of living. If ever I need pets at home, I rather go to pets adoption society. I heard some animals from pet store were stolen animals. Have you heard that issues?

I am strongly against pet stores. To everyone who says "but if you didn't get the puppy, where would it go!" you've got to get a handle on your emotions for the sake of the dogs. For every puppy you purchase from a pet store, you are supporting the puppy mill industry, yes YOU, you who thinks you are doing a good deed and doing this dog a favor, you are really just sentencing his brothers and sisters to the same fate. Do not purchase from pet stores! If no one bought dogs from them, if there was no demand, then there wouldn't be dogs in puppy mills, in horrible conditions. You have to take the first step yourself and say NO to pet stores.

I posted this reply once before, but the forum ate it.

Well, I am 100% against pet stores. If you care about animals, DO NOT purchase from them! To all of you saying, "but if you don't purchase the puppy from the pet store, what will happen to it" you have to turn your emotions off for the sake of all dogs. You think you are doing that dog a favor by purchasing him, but really you are just sentencing his brothers and sisters to the same fate. Everyone who buys a dog from a pet store, even those of you who think you are doing dogs a favor, is supporting the puppy mill industry. If no one purchased puppies from pet stores, if there was no demand, then there wouldn't be dogs in pet stores, and there wouldn't be dogs in puppy mills. Please do the right thing and don't buy from pet stores. Change has to start at home -- it has to start with you.

I definately do NOT like pet stores. Most of the time, the puppies & kittens aren't even pure & they're sick. My brother bought 2 puppies from a pet store, put 100's of dollars of vet fees into one of them & she still ended up dying because she was so sick. I prefer to buy mine from reputable breeders or rescue them from people that are going to take them to the shelter.

In addition to supporting puppy mills, buyers are getting ripped off by the huge price tags!

I really don't like it when the pet stores sell dogs and cats. At least, the major chain stores. The mom and pop stores do a nice job of actually caring for the dogs. I also think that the chain stores can do a decent job of actually caring for the small pets, like birds and hamsters.

My parents dog came from a pet store and was oalready fixed at 8w then they got him. I don't think it's healthy for a dog to be fixed that early.

I still say it is a viscious cycle. If you don't buy the dog from a pet store it goes to the humane society and either gets adopted there or put down.

They obviously don't care (they don't even care when the dogs are in their care), someone has to for the animal(s) sake! To me, it is just like humans (unfortunately, too many humans won't stop breeding and there is nothing you can do to stop them--that is the way I feel about pet stores).

It is all unfortunate, but sometimes you just cannot turn a deaf ear on these problems at the sake of a life of something totally innocent and undeserving of the cruel life it was thrown into! That is just my opinion and I don't want to cause a big debate on it...it's just totally sad to me.

I've never bought a dog from a pet store, per say. I have a place now where I will continue to buy my dogs.. and awesome local family-owned place. I won't even set foot in any other pet store because my emotions do tend to overflood me.

I am against the sale of dogs in a building like that. Imagine how long those animals can go before a sale. Then, how sick or malnurished they could get.

I think that it's like everything there are good and bad.But personally I don't think it is fair to keep puppies in small cages.

Originally Posted by myca

I'm against pet store. For me they used animals to earn money or for source of living. If ever I need pets at home, I rather go to pets adoption society. I heard some animals from pet store were stolen animals. Have you heard that issues?

what do you mean by stolen animals?
ive never heard that.

Originally Posted by myca

I heard some animals from pet store were stolen animals. Have you heard that issues?

I'm with rox. This issue is very near and dear to my heart and I've done a lot of research. I've never heard that the animals are stolen. A lot of other unfotunate things -- puppy mills, inbreeding, backyard breeding, diseases and contamination and filthy conditions, sure, but I'm 100% sure the big chain petstores (PetCo and the like) don't get stolen puppies, and I'm pretty sure most mom-n-pop stores wouldn't risk it either.