Critters can't get a break

What is up with people ditching their pets at the pound?! Even FISH get dumped at shelters. WTF?

At the Merced Co shelter in CA, a dog was killed just because the vet there did not like chows. WTF?

At any given shelter, you can find frogs, birds, fish, mice, rats, hamsters, rabbits(lots of rabbits), myriad of reptiles, guinea pigs, sometimes goats and horses-it's like a friggin' pet store!

I believe if big retailers were really serious about how much they love pets (Petco-where animals come first; Petsmart-where pets are family) they would stop adding to the problem with all their sick and diseased pets people buy on impulse. Sure, customers pay big money for the pet, but when their kid gets tired of it, off to the pound it goes.

PETSMART-EVIL CORPORATION WANTS TO EAT YOUR SOUL!
the parakeet incident:
I worked at Petsmart in Campbell, CA. My first day , I found a hurt parakeet in the "isolation room". Half of it's foot was mangled and gangrenous! I freaked out. The lead pet care associate said the bird had been like that for over a week, and received the injury after someone closed the foot in the cage door. The bird was not taken to the vet. WTF?! The next day, I took the bird to Adobe Animal Hospital in Downtown Los Altos, where my idol Dr Kurt Nakamura performed emergency surgery. Because the leg bone had been exposed for so long, half the leg had to be AMPUTATED! The little guy is now in a foster home with Mickaboo Cockatiel Rescue and adapting well to life with HALF A LEG, thanks to Petsmart idiots.
The freezer incident:
Ah, yes. The freezer incident. Wanna puke? Just look into the Banfield freezer where Petsmart dumps the bodies of all the critters they kill. I was sent to the in-store vet Banfield to "dispose" of a guinea pig carcass. The guinea pig, lovely white and black female, had died of pneumonia. This death took 2 weeks. Petsmart did not want to pay the $300 vet bill, ('cause it's just a stupid critter, y'know?) so management just stuffed it in the "isolation room" and let it choke to death on it's own lung fluid. W-T-F?!
But I digress...Back to the freezer. It was one of those freezers that open from the top (to make it easy to fit a whole human body in it, I guess). I went to the back room of the Banfield and told the vet I had a dead animal. He pointed to the large white box in the corner. Upon the box were the lunches of the staff, which they removed, while laughing and making comments on the dead guinea pig. I opened the freezer and almost vomited-it was absolutely PACKED with carcasses of every pet you could imagine-hamsters, rats, guinea pigs, turtles, water dragons-the list goes on! It was disgusting and HIGHLY DISTURBING! If pictures of this got out, Petsmart would freak. It looked like Critter Judgement Day! F Petsmart. I am now permanently scarred.
(movie idea: Terminator 4: Rise of the Petsmart Cyborg Critter Killers, the love story of a CEO and his pocketbook)

PETCO-FRATERNAL TWIN OF THE DEVIL (aka Petsmart)
hamstergeddon:
Exactly the same as Petsmart, but with a different name. I worked there for 6 years. It was my first job. Know what a hamster looks like on the inside? I know. Two hamsters were thrown together by an employee during the night shift. These hamsters did not like each other, and I'm sure the employee and his pals liked what they saw. I came in the next day to find both hamsters dead. One was torn open and all it's insides were now outside. I told management, but the employee was never punished-they thought it was pretty funny, too, I guess. Oh, and F Petco, as well.

Many independent retailers are filthy critter-killers, too. You know who you are.

And, people, please remember, while you are buying that guinea pig or hamster, five other critters are dying in a back room.

So what am I saying here? Critters just can't get a break, and I am sick of it.

coming up next:

"Backyard Breeders vs AKC Breeders-should a doodle-anything even exist?"

all ideas, hate mail, comments, and kudos welcome!