Bea Arthur Asks PetSmart to Stop Live Animal Sales

Good for you Bea Arthur for speaking out!! I can hardly stomach any news of cruelty to animals. . any kind. I hope not all Petsmarts are guilty, but I tend to agree with Maya's comment that the problems start way before the critters make it into the store. I'll continue using my PetSmart discounts to buy food there though.

When someone sarcastically wrote if Petsmart employees should make house calls after the animals leave the store. Welllllll bottom line is NO store PetsMarts or any other stores have any business selling ANY animal. And about house calls if PetsMart insists on selling animals well then maybe employees CAN make a quick check up call to the customers who did buy an animal from them. It comes with the territory. Petco is cutting back 30 of animals being sold in their stores. This is a great start to phase out the selling of animals at Petco. Please adopt hamsters bunnies and all other animals from your local shelters and even if you have to make a little drive to get to the shelter. It's worth it. Let's not support any pet stores that insists on selling animals. Fortunately at my local shelter they even have the bunnieshamsters spayed before adoption and it was because of public pressure. On another note If Petsmart insists on selling animals in their stores then they should take the criticisms when another Petsmart store leaves animals left to slowly die in a backroom.

Again I want to stress that not all PetSmarts are like this. Im on a pet care team in a store and every one of us does a great job taking care of the pets in our store. Tammy I think you should get your facts straight before you run your mouth. First off animals don't come to stores in cardboard boxes. None so far as I'm aware of have ever arrived dead. And if an animal gets sick the first thing we do is take it to a vet. There is no Banfield in my store so they are taken to a local animal hospital that specializes in exotic animals. We also don't even sell "little bottles of that stuff that PetSmart sells as sic remedys" much less use any for the pets in our care. We do exactly as we suggest to customers is they have a sick pet get it to a vet asap and follow their directions. And yes that does mean prescriptions. we have the authority to deny selling a pet to someone if we believe they aren't going to take care of it and that authority is used. We also give free "care guides" explaining the needs of that kind of pet as well as walking the customer though all the requirements of that pet and making sure they understand them. other than that how are we supposed to make sure the pets lead happy healthy lives after they leave our care? What do you want us to do make house calls? NatureMuzic we don't sell cats or dogs! There are no puppykitty mills you idiot. We give store space to local shelters so they can find homes for homeless cats and dogs. I cant speak for all of our stores just mine. But grouping all PetSmarts in the same category as one bad one is stupid and wrong. Just like calling all Islamic people "terrorists." Its ridiculous.

I've worked at Petsmart for almost a year now and have seen way worse than what is in that video. the first week we opened all of our small pets got wet tail fish died left and right birds pulled out all feathers in stress. its not fun coming to work knowing that you will find death everywhere. none were taken to a vet. i was shocked to find out that all my manager did was write a complaint letter to DC about all the dead animals and requested more animals for the next week. our store strictly prohibits cameras and phone for all employees so that video is a great depiction of an animals life at petsmart. and all other petcare employees you know that those animals can get much better care! so don't lie to your self we all do the morning DEAD RUN!

I bought a Black Bear hamster from Petsmart 4months ago. Shortly after I bought her she started losing teeth. She looked great was very tame and friendly and active. Last week my daughter noticed a large bump on her pouch that grew rapidly and to make a long story short it turned out to be a tumor. When the vet examined her he found another lump under her neck 2 dark tumors on her back and forehead 4 on her eyelids and 2 more pinpoint size tumors beginning to grow. She had an enlarged spleen and gum problems also. I am terribly hurt and angry that these animals are raised in such horrible conditions it's hard telling what my poor hamster was exposed to or how this could possibly happen to her at such a young age. The vet told me he has never seen anything like it. Needless to say she didn't make it and now I have the horrible ordeal of telling my 9 year old daughter that her hamster is in heaven when only this morning she was going to the doctor to get better. I am curious as to how many more of the hamsters from that litter have the same horrible health problems that mine did. I'm furious that this happened and I'm even more furious that I find out about Petsmart's reputation afterthefact from my boss. I had no idea. THIS HAS TO STOP!! How can they get away with this?!? It makes me sick that anyone can allow this or purposely hurt these innocent animals. I think that anyone who does this sort of thing or knows about abuseneglect and DOES NOTHING needs the exact same thing done to them. I am going to do everything in my power to find a way to try to stop this. I just don't understand how some people can be so evil!!!!! How can anyone just put a sick animal in the back of the store to die? Do people actually take their sick animals back to the store for a refund which I personally can't understand anyway and this is what happens to them? UNBELIEVABLE! We have a responsibility to report any type of abuseneglect in any pet store or anywhere for that matter.