PetSmart's Big Suffering for Small Animals
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- PetSmart's back rooms are off-limits to customers, and that's where the company hides away the immense suffering of the tiniest companion animals. During an undercover investigation, PETA documented that more than 100 small animals were deprived of effective veterinary care and were slowly dying-out of customers' sight. For more information: Helpinganimals.com.
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I always felt like fish tanks at Petsmart were really really crowded .
wot in tarnation bob ross 👌
They are. Theres atleast 70 fish in 1 tank
Its sad
they really are they have oscars in like 10 gallon tanks koi fish in like 15 witch even for 1 is Not enough at all not even close i do get that its temporary but what if no buys them and like a single oscar needs at least 45 gallons and a (adult koi,thats small) needs at the very very mininimun a 50 gallon preferably outside in a pond but like the tanks are so overcroweded most fish have sickness or fungi which is disgusting,welp i wrote a lot Bob
oof im bored those are only temporary
+PETA i worked at petsmart and i can 100% back up everything in this video. keep doing what your doing! I was terminated from petsmart for telling people 24 hours was not enough time for a proper nitrogen cycle to occur in a fishtank and denied selling the oscar cichlid to a 10 gallon home.
+asap Robi Were you really terminated for that? Unbelievable!
+PETA yes unfortunately. i remember the back rooms were always cold, where the small mammals that were both sick and waiting to be put on shelves lived. If anything it was a learning experience, i will never buy a pet from a live animal chain again and i refuse to work for people who cared more about their minimum wage paycheque then the innocent lives of the animals in need. i hope your mission is a success to stop the chains and you have my support!
+asap Robi We are so glad you at least cared and those animals received empathy from you.
+PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Hey keep doing what ur doing but I heard that PETA does a lot of bad things just sayin
When i grow up i will make a good pet store that will not make any money and all i will care about is there health and safety
had a feeling petsmart was shady
Lauren Bauman you your right
Zodiac Arevalo no you’re not
Yeah same
oof not where i live
Same
I got one male guinea pig from Petco. He was alone in a tank with nothing to chew on. I adopted him hoping i could give him a better home. When i looked at him more closely i saw that he had a scar on his nose and parts of his ears were missing! Also the products they sell are terrible. They had like a two inch mesh wheel for gerbils and mice, like WTF!! Both Petco and Petsmart should be closed down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Olivia Forma PetCo is not PetSmart.
+Olivia Forma I mean bumbled foot much.
I don't think they should be aloud to sell animals but they shouldn't be shut down be cause at least in my town that is the only place I can get oxbow guinea pig products and a good bedding so in stead of ranting on the internet why did you do your own research and come up with a better solution.
Two inches is way too small
Part of my guinea pigs ear is missing too. I got him from petco
adopt Don't shop!
Colored Cockatiel agrreeed this is depresing;-;
Colored Cockatiel but dont most adoption places not have small animals since their so small?
Ivy kid yes.
nitromav oh, thanks, i didnt really think so
Check a nearby town or city for small animal shelters. You can also look for small critter adopts through craigslist etc. We have a couple of bird/rodent shelters and some ferret sanctuaries where I live. If you're looking for fish or lizards, they have stores for those too. My best luck is at a bait&aquarium shop nearby.
i knew there was always something wrong with petsmart😔
This is why I waited for a rescue before I got my little guinea pigs
+Kate Wilson same cx
Good to hear :)
Kate Wilson I got my pet guinea pig from a friend who adopted 2 "females" from another family who couldn't keep them no longer.
I had a pig from her 1st litter and he only lived to be about 5. He just stopped eating a drinking and I didn't know what I should do. by 2 days, when I came back from school he died. He didn't normally lay under his water bottle, but that is where I found him. and it was really sad bc my cousin pig did the same thing about a year and a half before mine did. I loved him and they didn't have any more litters.
Cassie Haddix yes I rescued my first two then adopted a set of 3 brothers but turns out one of them was a female and she had a litter so now I have 8 but the female has a 2 by 4 cage with her daughter. And I have 3 more 2 by 4 cages with a pair of males that get along in each.
I’m adopting 2 guinea pigs Friday
I went to a pet store when I was around seven years old and I got a kitten there. we called her xexe (zee zee) the only reason we bought her is because of the terrible conditions she and her brothers and sisters were living in. xexe is long haired and she was covered in feces that had dried into her coat. Similar things happened to her brothers and sisters. They also all suffered from wjat looked like conjunctive eytis. so we asked that the kittens be cleaned and that the shit that littered the floor of the cage be cleaned. God the smell of urine was horrible. they refused to clean it saying it wad the managers decision and he wad not there. Bullshit. so we asked to buy all the kittens
they were selling for around 300 British and because there was four of them we just couldn't afford it. so we took the sickest weakest looking cat, Xexe. We took her home, cleaned her took her to a vet, got some stuff to sort her eyes and we also had to use a flee treatment as she was crawling with flees.
Xexe is now nine years old very healthy and an avid hunter.
I feel bad for the mice.
I see like 30 in a cage and the house thing in there is packed up with mice.
And the people taking them out grabs them by the tails if their feisty.
Which is still rude when the person can get a different mouse :v
I worked as a pet care specialist for years. We had vets regularly check our animals and it was not like this video at all. Idk if it was my manager or the store I worked for but it was NOT like this at all.
+Raising Robertsons This is from a suppliers facility not a store - we are glad to hear the animals in your store saw vets regularly.
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I went to petco for my birthday and saw 3ferrets, they looked so happy.. except one :( she was mistreated by the others, got no food, no water, and she was only a month old and her sliblings were adopted. All alone except for 2other ferrets that abused her, she had nothing. She looked helpless, scared, and worst of all, she was deaf. When my parents told me to get another ferret I refused until they said fine. Now at 3months old, she's my little baby :) She's the perfect pet I could ever wish for.. please like this for my baby girl :3
And if any of you are wondering, we named her sweetie. She gets along with our 3cats and 2dogs perfectly well. Go to petco today to save these helpless creatures.
The pet smart I live near actually takes animals from the rescue that are having a hard time being adopted, and they don't sell rodents.
Same where I live.
You’re so lucky you’ll never get a Petco or Petsmart like that
Same where I live
please..do something.
Riko Arnieo how about you do something?
@@Oneofhisravens peta is doing something about u can donate to them and they shut down big animal mills for animal cruelty
wow pet smart needs to be shut down
Yea it needs to be... *BANNED*
I was thinking about getting an animal from petsmart and I am so glad I learned about what goes on behind the scenes at petsmart.
While some stores may vary in their care, the bottom line is that these animals were not meant to be kept like this. The overcrowding, stress, and lack of individualized attention is unacceptable. We're not blaming the staff, but the company that insists on continuing to cause animal deaths and suffering by selling them. PetSmart must stop selling animals.
We're not blaming the staff, we're blaming the company for selling these animals. The stress, extreme overcrowding, and lack of consistent vet care is unacceptable. The only solution is for PetSmart to stop selling animals.
This is where I got my beta fish, glad I got him, now he has a loving home!😇
Yeah, but when you think you save an animal from a mill, you just put more into breeding.
Well your making a spot for a another animal
For every one animal you “save” you’re submitting 2 more for abuse.
She is so so so so soso so so right god blessed you
You shouldn't buy an animal you should always adopt from local animal shelters or rescue shelters. Buying an animal only contributes to the over-population of animals. :)
I was at Petsmart helpin my cousin pick out two fish. And when you look into the aquarium there are alot of dead fish 😥
BassCookie 18 I see you everywhere!
BassCookie 18 yes
Hey, here is an excerpt from our website:
"People who breed dogs and cats profit at animals' expense. There is no such thing as a "responsible" breeder, because for every puppy or kitten who is produced by any breeder, an animal awaiting adoption at an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a home-and will be euthanized."
For more info, check out PETA.org, thanks.
Today i went to petco... what happened disgusted me! So i went to the gerbil section and i saw a rat, this poor rat was giving birth and Fu**ing petco didn't care at all. She was running around trying to give birth to this animal while running in her own s*** Tomorrow i plan to buy 2 gerbils because i feel so sad.
Cousinwitch Aj Petco doesn't sell female rodents ( Well in my area ) because they don't want it having babies on you.
Oh wow....
Cousinwitch Aj ?
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some years ago Petco sold me two 5 week old rats and told me they were boys and then refused to take them back after I found out they were pregnant.
Dont get animals for no reason
welcome them with care and love to the family
I thought PetSmart was one of the pet stores I could actually trust instead of those other stores filled with crooks
Actually must of us here at PETA have companion animals and a lot of us take our companions to work with. What PETA is against is buying from breeders and supporting inhumane practices that only contribute to animal over-population instead of adopting animals from shelters. Check out our video entitled "An inside view of PETA's office with Ella" Thanks for the comment and have a wonderful day! :)
I got my old hamster Hammy at Petco, which is also a terrible store. She was the best hamster ever! She was newly shipped, so I'm glad I saved her before anything happened... But now, she is dead. She lasted about 3 years. She was a happy playful Chinese Dwarf hamster, and I was expecting her to live 4 - 5 years! She was a sweetheart... and I will always remember her. I am so glad to rescue her from Petco, and given her a mansion of a cage, and a great life.
TripleDouble XX2 Actually, I worked for Petco for about 3 years and I don't know if it was my location, but everyone treated the animals greatly. I adopted a dog from there but he sadly passed away :(
TripleDouble XX2 I love Umbreon
I saw a man taking a little baby rat once for snake food and Petsmart's rules say they try to prevent rats and mice from being fed alive to snakes and just offer them frozen. Do you think this counts as animal abuse? I think it's disgusting the way we experiment on animals and mistreat them. Rats in particular suffer so much and we do horrible things to them.
Got 2 cats from petsmart on their adoption day. They even came with records of shots and all of their medical history. Both are healthy and spunky thank god.
petsmart are cruel and stupid
I think their dog and cat stuff are great because they help them, but all their small animal pets that they sell is just terrible.
No they probably just put dat on there
spike the gamer They can't or you could actually sue. They are actual documents of their trips to the vet.
these animals are not pet smarts though
agreed. I worked for pets mart during this investigation craze. Of course they covered the two stores that were bad and never mind our store which took in abandoned animals and gave them away.
I work at PetSmart as a Pet Care Associate, and this is not at all how our store is. We genuinely care about our animals :)
All of the images shown are clearly of hamsters with "Wet Tail." If you google the term, it will tell you that there are no steps you can take to prevent a hamster from getting wet tail. While the sickness is often fatal, no matter where the hamster is, they have a high risk of contracting the illness. This is not due to incompetency or negligence on the PetSmart's staff; maybe you should research this topic before accusing a franchise of animal mistreatment.
God gave us dominion over animals. Does Not Mean Play God for Profit.
Thank you peta, that’s all I have to say. Thank you for shedding light on this hellscape known as petsmart
I could write a novel on how false this video is. I worked at a Petsmart earlier this decade, and I'll never forget my first encounter with a member of PETA. She demanded all the Bettas be put into one large tank with high flow (our plant tank). Male Bettas fight to the death if put together. Also, Bettas in the wild live in shallow puddles and breathe air. It is stressful for them to be in too large tanks with high flow. Our Petsmart's Bettas had daily water changes and were well cared for.
Why the hell would I shop at Petsmart anyway? The food is low quality and expensive. Its also heartbreaking seeing animals behind a cage or glass.
So PETA, if I can't shop at Petsmart, where do I buy food for my animals? I've got a dog, three cats, three chickens, two horses, and a gecko. I can't exactly stroll right into Walgreens and get a container of fish flakes. So where do I go? And by the way, my dog, two of my cats and one of my horses were rescued. My other cat and horse were bought from people, the chickens are from tractor supply co, and the gecko was bought at petco. What are you gonna do about it?
find other places to get supplies, you fucking idiot
I saved a beautiful hamster from PetSmart. Although I do regret buying from them, I'm glad I saved him. He was balding and sneezing when I first purchased him.
It's been three months and he's regrown all his hair. I barely hear him sneeze. I love my little baby Mocha with all my heart. No animal deserves so much neglect.
this store needs to be shut down.
i work at a petstore for almost half a year and only one hamster has died within that time. they had a vet appointment and we supplied medication.
to generalize all petstores like this is wrong. (even though i understand why) because not all pet stores are bad. some actually care.
yes i recognize that its few and far in between. but for those wondering if all petsmarts are like this.
it's not true. who ever is running that store needs to get a life lesson and it makes me greatful for my community to invest their care into these animals the way they do. when its a scar. or something people wouldn't normally want. we make sure people know theyre for adoption so they can at least get a home. instead of staying.
that plastic bag part is sickening. im so glad ours doesn't come like that.
This is why I stick to smaller low key pet stores that just sell supplies and not animals, unless their like a fish only store where their run by fish lovers and the fish are in good conditions. I have a local fish store and their so passionate about them it's great.
I want to start a pet store that doesn't abuse their animals.
They don't seem to hide their fish that well. Whenever I go to the petsmart near my house I see the fish tanks are completely disgusting and the filters are blocked with fish carcasses. So I completely agree with you. Petsmart needs to be stopped
do not shop at petsmart why? ur going to save the animals if u buy one
Because the more you buy the more they breed to sell
+sea cat productions if you buy a pet from pet smart you're encouraging the cruelty. if you by a pet (saving a pet) then another hamster or bird will replace it.
if you really want to help an animal stop giving pet smart the money they DON'T deserve.
if you want to help an animal in need and want a pet you should go down to you're local animal shelter and adopt a pet there
p.s. I'm not trying to patronise you I appreciate your love of animals
That my plan to buy as many as I can to care for it and nurse it back to health if I need to
No you wont you will put more in danger. They would get money for neglecting their animals they already do it will just make it worse
seriously steal them or u just paying the abusive industry
This isn't true for my store either. Most of the time animals are sick, we got them from the supplier that way & we take them to the vet immediatly. We were having a problem with wet tail for a while, but we almost always noticed it right away and took them to the vet. They then got better. If anything, that makes me wonder how well you were taking care of them. As for Isolation, we put them back there so they don't spread the disease.
I don't think we should just boycott a store that obviously has a big control on animals, I just think we need to make vet care mandatory in laws... A couple people not hopping somewhere won't change something, laws will.
Still very sad to see what is happening! I recently got my hamster from petsmart and they seem to take care of all of there
Animals but I don't know the whole truth I guess thank you for shedding light in a place were I was clueless about!
Well the hamsters canibolising at about 1:55 is not because of the conditions, it is because if you but 2 hamsters together, they fight to the death.
I worked at petsmart, and petsmart will do anything they can to save a pet. We take them to the vet, but you can't save them all. They will save a Guinea pig and then adopt them out for free, all you have to do is ask the managers, that is how I got my 2 guinea pigs. I nursed them to health at work, took the to the vet and when they were better filled out the paperwork and took them home. You can try to educate people but there are many people who cannot or do not want to be educated.
I worked at Banfield (the vet's office at some Petsmart stores) as a vet tech and then head of veterinary techs for a few years. Banfield isn't even officially affiliated with Petsmart, other than renting space, and yet I can't tell you how many hours I've spent giving the store's small animals lyme dips, antibiotic ointments, antifungal treatments, wound dressings, and the rare euthanasia when all else fails. I've helped save countless little furry lives, so this is a slap in the face to me.
the only way to get PetSmart or Petco to stop is to not shop there. If you don't shop there then eventually they will lose money and give up.
I currently work at a Petsmart and went through SO much training on how to treat the animals. They tell everyone -from the stockers to the cashiers- that if you see an injured or sick animal and don't do anything to help it, you will fired immediately. The rooms for sick pets are cleaned more than once a day and are immaculate. I think the person that made this video just has something against Petsmart.
They pinned us if you ask me. You want to save the poor animals but at the same time your giving them money to keep the darn thing running. I really true lay think that if there wasn't money in the world and people treated all life kind, it would be a wonderful place. But it's not. And that just sucks.Peace2life.
Then we're glad you don't know her. The act of breeding, shipping, and casually selling these animals to people is cruel. And this footage just doesn't lie.
i bought a sick guinea pig there with a head tilt because one of the workers whispered to me 'please buy her or else they are throwing her out' she was very sick and i took her to the vet and never bought from petsmart again. she died recently only 1 1/2 years old. she had bronchitis and her heart failed. i went to feed her when she was laying on her side barely breathing. i took her out and held her until she passed. i buried her with her favorite toy and her blanky(i made her a blanket and she would carry it with her wherever she went and slept with it) i took wonderful care of her and i miss her so much. petsmart is evil and we need to stop buying from there. go to your local shelters and i guarantee there will be pets there you can buy
We post videos that document cruelty and we think it speaks for itself. We've seen all ends of the pet trade, the breeding, the shipping, and the flippant selling, and it's all irresponsible. These animals deserve more respect than this.
I've not only witnessed this at PetSmart, PETCO and other big chain petstores...but little "mom & pop" stores too. We have this exotics store down here, called Pet Safari and it is by far the worst kept store I've ever seen. Not only does it smell, but cages are suspended from wire hooks on the ceiling, dead hamsters, birds, and fish litter the bottom of the cages. The worst part is, this store does nothing but gloat about their USDA approved business.
i have worked for both petsmart and petco.. i was the aquarium and small animals specialist at each. i hated working there because i was instructed to neglect animals that needed care much more than routine chores that could be put off to save lives. i have vet experience, it was also horrific to care for individual pets and bond with them, only to be forced to hand them over to people who were clearly lying about their intentions to provide adequate care (i can tell when someone is just saying "okay" to shut me up yet is not actively purchasing any of the necessary supplies for the pet in question) on a daily basis. these corporations also fail to care for their employees by having terrible HR care, untrained management, and allowing bad admin to discriminate against their own employees within their stores. i boycott them both now, when before i used to love them. sometimes you have to see inside to really know.
"if something happens within 14 days bring her back and we will provide a refund."
I bought my guinea pig Cookie about 3 days ago from PetSmart. So far she is doing well. She is alert and loves to eat spinach. Last year around this time i had purchased a hamster from Petco who became Ill 3 days later and died in a weeks span. Everyday I come home from school terrified that Cookie won't greet me. So far I have been blessed. Next pet I get will be adopted. I knew pet mills were cruel. But not this cruel
I went to a pet-smart like last month. The pet-smart I go to is about 10 minutes away from my house in NY. Anyways, i was in the market for gerbils.. But there were no gerbils so i asked the lady if she had any more in the back, and she told me i'll check. And us said ill come with. She told me it was off limits and no one was aloud back there. So i said okay. And here she comes with about 10 medium sized gerbils crammed into this little tiny ass plastic container... I was about done right there. Never going to pet-smart again
I went to petsmart to see the animals, i saw a really sad hamster trying to get out of its cage, i got her, her name is evy, she was so happy when she got out of that cage i felt so bad for her, i couldnt let her stay there, she is now very happy and she has a cozy home
honestly I don't care if you work at petsmart and that one is fine, apparently there ARE petsmarts that have this issue, and this isn't the only animal abuse case that petsmart has run into. I think the company should be regulated, and held responsible, even if out of their thousands of stores, only 5 are like this, because this shouldn't happen. period. every store should be abuse free.
These big commercial pet store are just terrible. I bought my first rat from a Petco 2 years ago..and have spend thousands in exotic vet care for him because of reoccuring URIs, tumors, and Congestive Heart Failure. He is on 4 different medications for life, totally $300+ a month for his longterm care. I NEVER step foot in these disgusting places anymore. Petco/Petsmart needs to take responsibility for their actions.
I was just at a PetSmart on my birthday. There were some ferrets fighting and I told a lady and she said they were just playing. I also walked by the fish tank. There were a couple of dead fish. Then I walked over by some parrots and tried to talk to them, but they wouldn't look at me and just kept on chirping. Now that I know what goes on in these stores I am not going back. ever. Ever. EVER!
This really opened my eyes , i horrific what the animals have to go threw , sometimes i wish the people doing this should be locked up in dirty overcrowded conditions !
good thing i adoppded my guinea pig
evelyn grant same!
I worked at BOTh PetSmart and Petco. I can tell you that it is not the company as a whole that mistreats these animals. It is usually the managers that have the authority to approve or deny vet care. I now work at a vet clinic that cares for all the Petco and PetSmart animals in our area. They do seek treatment, and give treatment when nessacary, and also euthanize when it is the humane decision. Got a problem with pet stores? Do YOU have a pet? WHATS THE DIFFERENCE???
My local petsmart task really good care of the pets. And give me the RIGHT information
I went there to adopt a guneia pig once. I saw this one, she was perfect. The man pointed out that she was pregnant but that was okay. Then the worst thing happened. I asked the employee if I could hold her. He gave her to me. Right away, I named her Pansey. Pansey looked up slowly, closed her eyes and rested her head on my hand. I waited for them to open, but they never did. R.I.P Pansey 05-16-11. But I know that not all Petsmarts are to blame. Just the ones who raise animals like Pansey.
I bought a lizard from PetSmart with only three feet, so I could kind of save him. When we checked on the other lizards at the store two months later, the others had died, and my Lizard lived for Twelve years after that.
Panic! At The Chemical Fall Out that is amazing! is he still alive
When I grow up my number 1 priority is going to be make a pet store where I don't care about money and only care about the animals health and happiness I don't care if I get closed down for not making enough money I will foster all of them.
Hope your dreams come true
What time I went to the pet store to get a hamster in the cage was just so packed I got the smallest hamster in the cage and now I love him
This is horrible. My mother's co-workers daughter worked at Pet-Smart and she actually would buy the animals food because the animals weren't supplied enough food. I bought a snake at Monster Pets and I believed that Monster Pets took great care of their animals. The snake died a couple of days over a month from when I bought it. Throughout my childhood my parents bought hamsters, a rabbit, and a lot of fish because of my love for pets. And all of their lives were cut short. I will never support any type of pet shop again. I'm so upset as an animal lover and I'm ashamed that after all of PETA's work Animal Right's are still non-existent.
I shared this with my whole family and all of my friends I could reach, saying Adopt don’t Shop! Who’s with me?
• Skylight Girls • Adopt don’t shop adopt don’t shop!!, my hamster should have lived
I received my first hamster from a friend, whose mother worked at Petco. I didn't expect anything, I was just very excited to finally have my own pet because our dog at the time was considered a family pet. however, when I came home and took her out of the cage.. she had scratches all over her belly. I was shocked and immediately took her to the vet. My mother was disappointed, while my father tried to stay positive. My next rodent, which was a guinea pig, was given to me from an animal shelter.
I got my hamster from Petco and my hamster already had wet tail but I didn't notice and she died. Point of this is: be wary of pet marts
+Cookie Cat so you should jst leave them there to die?
I brought a guinea pig at the beggining of 2016. He was a baby old enough to be adopted, but he was seperated from his "dad". I adopted him. Also, I always adopt pets at shelters.
This video was made 12 years ago yet its sad that nothing has changed or improved
that's like the worst way to stop them!
if you buy a pet out of a store you only keep the market alive and are therefore also responsible for the further suffering of these animals.
If you really want to do something, demand to speak to the manager and explain that you will not be buying anything from the store as long as they sell live animals and that you will advise everyone you know to stay clear of pet smart.
my sister found a dead beta fish in its bowl at petsmart
That's right when she said; "these animals never asked to be bred into this world." They never asked to be pets either. ='(''
All the animals deserve better
I'm having it out with petsmart! We adopted a wonderful cat, were given a shot record and told that he was healthy. after we got him home we noticed he had diarrhea a lot and wasn't active at all for a 1 year old. i took him to the vet and found out he has feline aids! i will never shop at petsmart again!
I worked at a Petco for a year and like many other respondents this video seems to exagerate or was just a bad petsmart store. yes, a lot of hamsters died, but it was after a day or two after they were shipped to our store. Wet tail was very common because of the stress of being shipped. We'd remove the sick animals into a seperate cage to avoid spreading and to give specialized care. also, smalls animals were given small pieces of lettece to promote hydration since it contains a lot of water.
Just saying that is not every Petsmart we never have that many fish in one tank we separate them out, I am a pet care associate and I also happen to be working both as a Veterinary Technician and at Petsmart part time, and I can say for a fact we treat our animals really well. We are very vigilant and making sure that everyone is healthy and eating properly. If we notice for example we noticed that two juvenile bearded dragons were not letting the third one eat so we set him up in his own tank and made sure he got the correct nutrition. The back "rooms" that you so say are off limits to people is because we are treating sick animals for potential zoonotic diseases and making sure they are nursed back to health in my store as soon as an animal looks unhealthy we bring them to the vet. After that and receiving treatment if they are not improving we bring them back to the vet and go with another treatment plan UNLESS the vet recommends that we euthanize. The other employee's only room is a new arrivals room that is where we put the animals from the shipments we get to make sure 1) They are healthy 2) they aren't carrying diseases and 3) to de-stress them before having pet parents adopt them. NOT EVERY PETSMART IS THE SAME it depends on the state, management and the employees .
PetSmart? Pet Idiots sounds more fitting
We had a dog named Maximus he was such a good dog and he needed a bath so we took him to petsmart and then when he came back he had a huge mark on his back and his tail got cut off Rest In Peace max Rest In Peace love you max I miss you
Why the hell would you show pictures of suffering animals?!? I know what your doing but its DEPRESSING
I work at petsmart, when our small animals get sick its the petcare associates job to take the animal over to Banfield's pet hosipital for treatment. It is also their job to care for the small animals, if done properly rarely do the animals die. If I were your manager I would blame you for this. You are the care taker of these animals there conditions are under your control, this is your fault. Maybe if you did your job instead of worring about slandering petsmart this wouldnt have happened.
Not all petsmarts are like this. They are changing many animal care things right now.
I bought a hamster from petsmart, I asked the person that was giving it to me to see if they had wet tail and he responded “it’s fine”. When I got home I took my hamster out of the box and it had extreme diarrhea. I was crying all day. The second hamster I got they said it was a baby and it died from old age in 1 month
WHY DOES ANYONE ABUSE ANIMALS?!! THEH DONT DESERVE THIS T-T!! TREAT THESE AMAZING ANIMALS LIKE HOW THEY SHOULD BE TREATED :( petco/petsmart are horrible 😭
Wet tail isnt a severe case of diarrhoea it’s a bacterial infection diarrhoea is the main symptom
i get the occasional dead fish, but the amount of dead mice and rats and such is just sickening
The local petsmart isn't like this. It allows you in the back, and there is no cruelness. However, other petsmarts are like this.
our first beta fish was from that place and when we got it he moved on shortly after that because he was sick. their lifespan is about 3-5 years
I currently have two Guinea pigs, both from petsmart my second Guinea pig (Oreo) died, because for some reason he stopped eating and drinking, so I had to feed him through a syringe, he eventually started eating and drinking on his own but I still supervised him like crazy, but he eventually died in his favorite little hut, I still have his best friend pebbles with me today, also my third Guinea pig which is pebbles new best friend! When I got gizmo (my 3rd Guinea pig) he had mites which passed to pebbles, so I ended up taking them to the vet and they got shots and I had to give them medicine:( but today pebbles and gizmo are happy and healthy living in a c&c cage!:)
Moral of the story, if you buy a Guinea pig from petsmart you are gonna have a lot of vet bills & heartbreak
I have purchased many animals at Petsmart and Petco and all they ever did was care about the living conditions and after care of the animals I bought. I have had in my 28 years of life, 4 birds, two still living, 7 hamsters, two rabbits, both still alive, and have had no problems with any food almost ever the one time I did they fixed it asap. Also I thought about buying a 300.00 bird, but ended up not buying. Everytime I would come in, they would tell me all the new things the bird could do.
I work at Petsmart as a Pet Care Specialist and Cashier. I agree with tjworley86, Everyone goes through lots of training for the well being of our animals. I love our animals, and will continue to give them the best care and love that each and every one of them deserve. I have been working there for a while, and haven't seen ONE dead animal. Thanks for clearly posting false information. Peta aggravates me to Laborde2005.
No wonder why Petsmart is known as the pets hotel
Damn, I got all my small animal pets from those stores. Never again
Emerald 919 I would buy more because you taking away there agany and stress
Alyssia Richardson but yet again they would have to bring in more animals,so they should just shut down!😔