Breaking Investigation: Animal Abuse at PetSmart

I saw the video about the breeders and where Petsmart gets their animals from and I think that it's VERY wrong. Those poor helpless animals are defenseless against us, they can't help themselves. It sickened me to watch that video of them being stepped on and kept in tiny cages. We need to stand up against this.

well i feel bad 4 some of the animals but i have bought 2 rats from petsmart and they are all healthy and i love them

I totally agree with PETA on this one. This mass breeding for profit is wrong. Petsmart is a company that puts profit before anything else. They don't even treat the employees well. Of course the managers get a quaterly bonus check but all the other employees get is $7.50 and a 15 discount. They may offer benefits but I may lose a good portion of my check by doing so. And what is really screwed up is that during the Christmas holidays the mangers get a holiday bouns on top of a quarterly bonus while us employees part and full time get nothing but a 30 discount that can only be used on the first weekend of the month and a tote bag that some 8 year old in china got paid 3 cents on hour to make. I am VERY unhappy as a petsmart employee. I have ten years aquarium experience and I own a saltwater reef tank with LPS and SPS corals. Even my coworkers tell me Im wasting my talent there and I really am. Too bad the only decent and moral reef shop in my little red state hick town is only a three man business. This corporation which I can gaurantee that more than half of those money grubbers sitting in that home office have never kept a pet or worked in a pet store in their entire lives as well as most of the customers think of us pet care specialists as being a bunch of brainless crack smoking hobos off the street that don't know jack about animals and that just saddens me to see that we have "WalMart" like pet stores nowadays where employees feel like slaves controlled by a greedy home office and ungrateful managers. Im just letting everyone know that in these stores there are some skilled and ethical people that work in them. I used to be one of the arrogant customers who thought petsmart employees where a bunch of nonothing tards. Since I've worked there I have learned a lot from my 2 pet care coworkers who have much compassion and knowledge for animals. Im now a bird guy as well as a fish guy. I just wish people would have more respect for the working man these days. Now our store manager is cutting our hours so he can put those toward padding his bonus check. The store is given a set of hours whatever is left over that goes as extra toward the manager bonuses. THE EMPLOYEES ARE THE BACKBONE OF EVERY CORPORATE CHAIN NOT THE LAZY MANAGERS WHO JUST STAND AROUND IN FRONT OF THE STORE SMILE PET DOGS AND SIT IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER ALL DAY. Petsmart is greedy fake and immoral indeed. We should go UNION!!!!

I found this site because I was looking to contact the district office for the 90th Street Petsmart in ScottsdaleAz. because I was there today and saw Society Finches in an overcrowded cage and there was one poor little finch who was an OBVIOUS victim of the other birds. They'd picked all his tail feathers off. When I told the manager he claimed that some employee there had "already noticed" so then why was the bird still left there to be the lowest on the totem pole ? and said they "were making a cage for him in the backroom". That sounded odd to me and now after reading all this I'm horrified. Tomorrow I am going BACK there and am going to demand to see this little finch. I'm sure if they haven't already killed it off that I'll end up buying it just to rescue it and here I am still looking for a job and can't really afford to. Also...there was a cat with a cold it had literally blown snot from sneezing right onto the front of it's glass window enclosure. I think the employees are told to lie immediately if any customer says they see something wrong in the store. Because immediately I was told all sorts of stuff "the cat has allergies" the cat is allergic to it's litter" the cat is on medication" ...but when I emailed Paw Placement the rescue the cat was with said they would go doublecheck on the cat ?! which sounds like they hadn't heard about the patheticpoor cat who kept rubbing it's face and blowing snot Petsmart sure lied to my face but they did not even tell Paw Placement what the heck was going on. So the clerk who had all that "info" about what was wrong with the cat and blah blah blah I guess it was all a story ?! Why the evil ? I hope Petsmart goes out of business. The management and anyone who knowingly lets an animal suffer will end up paying for it spiritually they'll go to some kind of hell in the end.