PetSmart May Be Selling Infected Birds

I bought a couple parakeets from PetCo. What's worse than "sick birds"? Flight hndicapped birds. PetCo sells some birds with cliiped wings. Good for a bird in a small indoor cage but deadly for a bird housed in an outdoor aviary. I just lost a beautiful pure white parakeet I kept in an outdoor aviary. Wing trimming at "corporate" butchered the bird. I hate small cages for birds used to flying around until "corporate" clips primary flight feathers. I no longer buy birds from PetCo. I'll travel to nearby towns where nonhandicapped flockoriented social birds are sold without flight feathers clipped until time of sale at the discretion of the buyer. 3 aviaries with the latest dedicated to budgies minus the beautiful PetCo white albino parakeet now.

Are you serious? The Breeder which supplies the birds sold the infected birds. Then PetsMart took the birds out of the store until they fixed the birds. PetsMart doesnt even make profit off the animals. In fact the lose money off it you dipshits.

Not to reopen this can of worms again but I doubt it will stay closed. I am unsure if the email address will be posted but here it is. flipboy04gmail I myself do work in the Petcare Department of Petsmart. People state that animals shouldn't be in chain stores than what about those local fish stores. Why not destroy zoos and butcheries that supply people food. Might seem a bit obscene to state that but isn't that all it is imprisionment? Do animals want to be in zoos and be gawked at all day and blinded by the photographic flash 247? Petsmart Petco Walmart in addition to all those self owned stores. They have livestock to sell to customers. Either for something for their children to play with as a hobby a pet. I will agree though to not allow Walmart to be able to have any type of livestock. I seen one Walmart so far in my area that it's livestock did look like it was suffering. Tanks full of ICH algae and dead fish. As said already my Petsmart is very experinced. True we might have dead fish but that is maybe 12 out of every 20 tanks. Fish die not due to neglect or malnourishment. As for small animals and birds deaths might occur 12 every few months. There are pictures of supposedly "neglect" "malnourishment" of a Petsmart roaming around online. I think you could even google Petsmart kills animals or something along that lines. Pictures of animals ripped apart and internal organs showing blood etc etc the whole gruesome scene. All that is BS and overexageration. Animals will killfight and even mutilate each other. I seen a hamster die in one night the afternoon before all animals are alive. The closing of that night dead hamster and internal organs laid out in display. These things happen not often but this is not neglect. That is animal nature. Such as a female hamster feeding it's young she will kill or eat a few if she just "THINKS" it is weak. Everyday opening and closing all animals are fed and given water. As for any diseases seen paperwork is filled out and that animal is brought to the backroom in it's own seperate cage. As for fish usually if one has a disease such as ICH the whole system is treated. I can't speak for all Petsmart but I am sure that if the workers see any illness. Medication is administered. As for the birds being screened for Psittacosis each Petsmart was given a solution to be added to the drinking supply as for a medicated food. So the birds are being treated. And yes every customer to purchase a small animal being a hamster bird or reptile has to sign a 18+ age agreement. It not only an agreement but also a way for Petsmart to contact if that animal has any diseases. I do agree though on that animals shouldn't be cooped up in tanks and cages. But in this world we cannot really abolish every pet store on this earth we can only educate and hope we have good Pet Parents. I doubt anytime soon that any chainstore such as Petsmart or Petco will ever be closed down. And I hope it doesn't even if I happen to not work at my current Petsmart. And happen to see illness I know to alert the Pet Care Manager. As for buying livestock be educated and not buy sick animals. I know PETA is an organization just for giving animals it's rights. But still the people who posted in this one thread are mainly those who really don't know anything and only speculate. I only posted to shed light on this discussion to give an insides view. But even if you post on this discussion will anything actually happen? Or are you just one extra whining voice added to the corner of unheard. No one has eyes to view everything in the world or else we would have a crimeless society free of violence. Close Petsmart and Petco for all we know there are underground stores and breeders not known. That's another thing why bash Petsmart and Petco? If there are breeders countless of people who breed hundreds and thousands of fish and animals. Also culling to euthanize fish just cause they aren't the right color. Isn't that even inhumane? As to the lady whose son gave up his room for birds. No offense but lady your nuts. It's your house your son's love for his birds really makes a mom to transform his room into an aviary. Get a bigger cage or get rid of the birds. As to the person who bought a bird from Petsmart and died the next day. Odd that it died but why did you even buy the bird if you know about supposedly the bad Petsmart. Isn't kind of odd a poster will say that on a dicussion? Bought a bird it died blame Petsmart. If you bought a bird I know animals do have lives but why not replace the one that died. If your so hardcore in loving your animals don't buy anymore cause in the end they will die.And if it did die the next day post it's living environments and post pictures of how it looked. Saying something died and not knowing the real cause of death is two diffrent statements. Blogs is there any truth in the world anymore? So many are just posters who wanna rattle the cage and start more uprising. Most are BS posts and actual discussion it is just to hard weed out the BS.

yea ive seen the videos and such from the little peta spy girl. and im sorry when you go into anything looking for something youre going to find it no matter what. it wasn't an unbiased report. and for one most of those treatment logs that involved the loss of the animal showed that it was found sick while under quarantine after arriving. so go after the venders of the animals as that is the obvious problem. um also im just about positive the information regarding necessary vet treatment is on the customer contract...oh and maybe if your peta spy actually tried to make a difference while she was working there i would actually give her a little credit. instead of video taping it why didnt she actually do something about it. she exploited the animals for her cause just like everyone else so dont be so self righteous. also that had to be at one of the worst stores in the chain because yea ive worked there for almost two years and never seen such extreme illness and death. oh and the reason some animals are given over the counter medication is because prescription antibiotics are sometimes too strong to treat the illness and can just cause it to get even worse. hamsters for instance are often stressed from being moved around. the stress depeletes the beneficial bacteria that lives in their digestive tract. prescription antibiotics are generally not helpful in this case because they are so strong that they do not allow that good bacteria to grow thus exacerbating the problem. over the counter meds are much more mild and still effective. and i mentioned the amount of money petsmart has lost due to the suspension of bird sales only to say that they are concerned first and foremost with the health of the animals instead of the money. obviously you have trouble reading. The primary problem however is irresponsible pet owners! you people place blame on the easiest target and not the actual source of the problem. there are millions of people that spoil their pets rotten. you're saying that those people shouldn't be allowed to have their animals because of the few that abuse them? so while you go after petsmart with a ridiculous completely biased "investigation" there are people out there neglecting their pets. Why not try to get legislative bills passed increasing the punishment for animal cruelty? im sorry i really would give peta more credit if their "investigation" was more open and didn't focus only on what you were looking for to begin with. the animals are treated they are taken to vets they are monitored several times a day but no where in that video do you see that girl making an effort to do any of those things.

Ariel For my 2 cents I think it's great that you want to rescue animals and have a shelter when you're older. However it's of the utmost importance to make sure that the animals you bring in are cared for properly with an eye to THEIR particular needs and wellbeing always. Most animals including birds need MUCH more space that the typical shelter provides for example. There are excellent shelters though that provide rooms and "lounges" for the animals so that they can socialize and stretch out. The problem with most shelters is that they run out of money or just never have enough to provide well for the animals that live there. Do as much reading as you can visit web sites and visit shelters in your area so that you can get a good idea about the current state of care for animals and how you can do it better. Volunteer with your local vet's visit animal rescue clinics. You sound like such a compassionate and caring person and with some practical knowledge under your belt you could help change the lives of shelter animals for the better. It's an admirable goal and I wish you every success with it!