superberry

回復 2# myversa

The best way to find out if the puppy is from puppy mill is going to the breeder's place. A good breeder will let you see the puppy's parents and their living area. The owner of the puppy mills will not let you see the parents. This is because their living environment is super dirty, and the mom is very weak due to "over production".

Also, of course Pet Habitat's owner would oppose the regulation........... cuz he won't be able to earn big profit, ha........... All I know if that dogs from Pet Habitat eat their own ****, including my dog. According to some books, it's because they were staved when they were a puppy, or their living environment was very dirty. The puppies were covered in dirt and **** but weren't cleaned properly. So the only way for the mom to clean the pupplies was to lick them. As a result, puppies thought eating their own **** is fine..............

superberry

this store... is one of the .... knows puppy mill buyer...
布小熊 發表於 2010-3-16 09:20

That's where we suspect our dog's from........ too bad my dog couldn't talk and verify, ha ha. I warned my parents not to buy puppy from this place, but my mom fell in love with my dog, and he was half price

I heard that they also buy puppies from customers. Then, they will sell the puppies in thousand of dollars and claim that the puppies are from breeders.

superberry

回復 6# myversa

Mini. Poodle......... my mom's friend had 2 Pom. All of them were brought from Pet Habitat, and they all eat their own poo 8(3)" />

superberry

and the 4th reason mentioned in the 3rd post

For my dog, it's reason 3 + 4

superberry

When I worked at Petcetera, a customer told me that she bought a puppy from Pet Habitat. The puppy refused to eat and had kennel cough. She asked the staff at Pet Habitat about her puppy's eating habbit in the pet store. The staff told her that they put several puppies in the same cage. They put a full bowl of dog food in each cage everytime (I forgot how many times a day). Puppies would eat together. So they have no idea whether the puppies ate or not.

Although Petcetera was a living hell, at least we put each cat & dog in separate cage unless instructed by SPCA. We knew how much they ate. If they were sick, we would call call SPCA to pick them up

ps: only the SPCA animals and in the store that I worked at. For small animals, ha ha...... no comment

superberry

回復 17# chocobun

whenever I was in that freaking small animal "livestock section", I felt like I am Hilter and all those poor small animals are Jews in the central camp. So you can imagine how bad it was. Petcetera staffs are underpaid slave (23000/52weeks/50hours, excluding free OT on average 10-20hours/week. You calculate la, and I was a "high paid assistant manager" since I have a degree!)...... so don't expect a lot. Too bad the new Petcetera still exist.

superberry

the only store that impresses me is Tisol
but that's more a pet supplies store since they don't se ...
嘉嘉 發表於 2010-3-16 17:55

me too......... I only shop at Tisol!

superberry

回復 60# chobit

cuz I was a customer service manager of the Petcetera @ Arbutus 5 years ago. You will find more horrifying stories at the FB group called "Petcetera sucks".

superberry

A great pet store like Tisol, they don't have pet sales nor grooming service, but they are re ...
khaki 發表於 2010-3-17 18:15

That's the only thing I support Petcetera............ Petcetera doesn't sell dogs & cats as well. Even we only did SPCA adoption, people would still come to me saying "I'm in love with that dog (German Shepard mix), I want to take him home right now!" When I ask him where he lived, he told me he lived in an apartment! Excuse me....... do you know what you are doing?

There was one time, we had a Pitt Bull mix puppy. Three little girls (grade 6-7, I guess) "fell in love" with the puppy and wanted to adopt the puppy. Of course I wanted to see the parents. When daddy came, he just stood in the corner of the doggy daycare with his arm crossed. When the adoption staff interviewed him, he said "I'm not going to touch the dog. She will have to take care of it (pointing at daughter)" Excuse me............. do you know what your daughter wanted to do? She's not going to buy a little barbie doll. It's a Pitt Bull we are talking about! It bites and it kills!

I am so glad that we had the power to say no to those idiots!

So if yayaya tells her story from a broker's point of view, I'm telling you guys stories from a pet store employee's point of view. I am not going to comment on the Petcetera management and how other employee handle the animals. However, when I worked there as a CS manager, I need to meet my sales quota as well. I do care sales and revenue. Although we don't make any profit from the dog/cat, new owners would shop a lot when they do the adoption. However, I also care whom would adopt the dogs and cats. We can't close our eyes and let those stupid people take away the dogs/cats. It's live we are talking about!