Pet Store cruelty Before anyone thinks about going to any Petco/Petsmart store, remember that behind closed doors the love of their animals does not exist. There have been several investigations against animal abuse in their warehouses and in stores. More importantly, the animal abuse being held by these companies is horrific beyond belief. The help for these animals starts with just one person at a time, hopefully bringing justice to these pet store companies. In the future Petsmart and Petco will get what they deserve for what they are doing to their animals, and for sticking behind the abuse of innocent pets. It is sad to see these companies not caring for the animals that they are supposed to be taking care of.
Not only has PETA (the People
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If you ever buy a pet from these stores chances are you’re going home with a sick animal. The animals don’t get care from a Veterinarian at the warehouses, therefore they are not looked at before they are put into stores. A sick animal will not survive for long if they don’t have the care they need, so people that buy animals from the stores won’t know if it is sick before it is too late. “Whenever I have gone into a Petco or a Petsmart I always get the same vibe; miserable fish, crap made in China and all looked after by underpaid unhappy employees” (Manukyan). people often think because it a pet store the workers must take care of the animals very well, but the reality is it’s usually the opposite. Where there are hurt animals in cages, employees often simply just “blow it off”, like it was meant to happen, when, in reality, if the animals were taken care of from the beginning, the employees won’t be so used to seeing dead animals in cages throughout their day. A former Petco employee spoke to PETA, telling her terrifying stories about working for the company. She explained how it became a procedure at the end of the night to count and collect all the dead animals left throughout the day. She continued, explaining that there was so many fish dead by the end of the day that employees often had a hard time seeing if the fish were alive or dead, so they took as many fish they could, put them in a bag, and threw them away. One of the most horrific stories she remembers while being an employee at Petco was when she heard claustrophobic parakeets fighting in a cage. “Running over, a fellow employee and I found that one parakeet had become the victim of frenzied pecking from cagemates-the other birds pecked all the flesh off the top of the of the animal’s head, leaving the skull completely exposed. I begged to be allowed to take the bird to a 21-hour veterinarian to be mercifully euthanized, and
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Have you ever had the pleasure of sitting beside an animal on the Skytrain on your commute to work or stood in line beside one at the grocery store? Did you know that there's a difference between service dogs and emotional-support animals? These are one of the many struggles that individuals are faced when in public. The article "Pets Allowed" written by Patricia Marx gives you an inside look on the struggles people are faced with while also explaining the rules and laws regulating emotional-support animals that many aren't aware of. Many business owners are being taken advantage of by pet
The husband ordered his servant to set out traps to capture the bird. So, his servant catches the bird and returns it back to him. “The husband takes the bird to his wife and before her eyes he killed it out of spite breaking its neck with his hands.” (Sutton 171) The blood from the bird splatters over her chest (Sutton 172).
PetSmart has been able to get a balance of services, price, and availability, which is critical when competing against mass merchandisers such a Walmart. PetSmart reevaluated their warehouse style and changed to a home inviting friendly environment. They even cut the store size and stocker fewer quantities of items on the shelves. To appeal to customers and encourage purchases they created eye-catching displays and promotions.
Did you know that puppies in newspaper ads, flea markets, on the internet and in pet stores are often victims of puppy mills? Puppy mills are inhuman ways for breeding dogs, the owners of these "factories" care very little about the dog’s health and care more about the money they will make by selling them. Dogs are produced in large numbers and most dogs live in tight, crammed cages. The female breeding dogs are forced to have litters as many times possible, regardless of the health hazards to themselves. When these dogs are useless and cannot breed anymore they are shot and killed. “It is not abnormal to find dead dogs on a regular basis at a puppy mill.” This statement truly shows what it’s like to be walking around a puppy mill farm. Owners treat these dogs horribly; they don’t care enough to realize when these dogs are passing away, from the horrible conditions, or have the courtesy to find a proper place to keep these unlucky animals.
Chickens have to endure suffering that no living thing should have to go through. The egg laying chickens have to be forced into tiny cages without enough room to stretch their wings. Up to 8 hens are crammed in to a cage that is the size of a folded newspaper, about 11"-14". Stress from the confinement leads to severe feather loss so the chicken will be almost completely bald in the cold cages. When the chickens are of egg-laying age, there beaks are cut off without any pain killers to ease the pain, they do this so the chickens don’t break their own eggs and eat them because the chickens are hungry.
One objection Norcross states in his essay is that “perhaps most consumers are unaware of the treatment of animals, before they appear in neatly wrapped packages on supermarket s...
Robert Gonzales, from Bakersfield, seemed like an average, ordinary man. One night however, he was accused of splashing beach on a small dog, and wrapping the dog’s mouth with duct tape. His goal was to discipline the dog. Gonzales was caught and arrested for abusing the animal. Animal abuse is an occurring problem in the U.S. But can be prevented if we take action.
Did you know that within one puppy mill, 150 puppies go through a very short term of harm each week? As a dog owner, I’m asking to fellow dog owners, where did you buy your dog from? In 2004, an article in “The Province” had written, “It’s a fact that reputable breeders will not allow their puppies to be sold in pet stores.” Which leaves the result that pet stores may have hurt puppy mill dogs. Puppy mills is an overcrowded way of making money for breeders. Puppy mills carry way too many dogs at once in order to make money. Dogs are hurt in too many ways for puppy mills to be legal. Puppy mills should be abolished because because animals are hungry and starved, kept in cages their whole stay, and have no experience with social interaction to other dogs or humans when they’re released.
According to a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania Medicine, it has been proven dogs bred in puppy mills are unable to demonstrate impaired health. Animals from puppy mills show uncontrollable abnormal behavioral characteristics that causes fear easily. (Hawaiian Humane Society) Animals in puppy mills are not bred for the quality of the animal created but for the quantity of it. Many of the animals not only gain defects but can also be handed the defect from generation to generation. (PETA) In many of the puppy mills, animals are placed in small cages with very little room to move around because there is multiple dogs with them. There has been cases where a dog has been injured from a fight bec...
“Fearful behavior and lack of socialization with humans and other animals are typical of puppy mill dogs; the first months of a puppy’s life are a critical socialization period for puppies” (“ASPCA”). To understand the unethical workings of puppy mills, one must know the animal abuse involved, why they use the practice, how they can be eliminated, and, finally, the lasting effects on the animals' lives. The mills are very unsanitary and lack cleanliness. Animals suffer from malnutrition and are abandoned when they are no longer in use.
There are many debates around the world about the topic of animal abuse. Animal abuse in the food industry has become a major problem due to the cruel treatment of animals. Most of the world's population might think that animal cruelty is only found in homes and on the street, but they forget about the other forms of animal abuse that affect the food industry. Large contributors to animal abuse are due to fishing methods, animal testing, and slaughterhouses. "Animals have always been a major part of our society in history and they have played huge roles in agriculture" (ASPCA). Factory farming is a system of confining chickens, pigs, and cattle under strictly controlled conditions. Slaughterhouses are places where animals are killed
Primates and some other animals are captured from the wild. There is even a market for laboratory animals where licensed dealers sell animals to research companies. These animals can come from places such as puppy mills, an establishment that breeds puppies for sale. Some dealers even go to the extent of baiting animals in from the streets with meat and sedatives, and others will pose as animal control officers. Flyers for “Lost pet” and “will give to good home” are responded by the wrong individuals. Some of these suffering animals were once pets that were loved and treated like family. To know that a family member is being treated unkindly and has to suffer for something they do not deserve is never desired (Peta).
They are then tossed with no care from the trucks onto the ground. This causes injuries and great pain. They are given no treatment, just left to suffer.” “The animal is brutally pulled out of the cage, then tied to prevent resistance. The animal receives a blow to the head.
Many people who abuse animals do not realize that they are actually hurting animals, this is known as unintentional. When some people try to discipline their pets they use tactics that they think is acceptable, when in reality is probably not the best way. People also abuse animals due to lack of attention, such as forgetting to feed and water the animals for a number of days. A family may take the animals with them when they leave the house, and forget to leave a window down with the animal inside. One of the biggest unintentional ways of animal cruelty is a way that many people think is helpful but is actually has a negative impact on all of the animals involved, this idea is trying to take in more animals than one can handle, they have good intentions but this is harmful to animals because it forces them to live in unhealthy conditions. There are many new cases of animal hoarding every year, with over 250,000 animals falling victim. Puppy mills are large dog breeding’s that care more about making money than the wellbeing and health of the animals. Many dogs become ill with diseases such as kidney or heart disease as a result of the conditions in which they live.