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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav
From: "Kathy Hutchins" <hutch...@hutch025.email.umn.edu>
Date: 1999/12/06
Subject: Re: Petsmart in the UK - animal abuse exposed
Don Edwards <gilligan...@mindspring.com> wrote: I was confused by this as well, until I went to the BBC site and read the > Our local Petsmart locations near Atlanta GA do NOT sell pets. They do > have space for pets (cats and dogs) from rescue organizations and humane > societies. The organizations and societies seem to take care of the > pets, NOT PETSMART. So a boycott (at least here in Georgia) would cause > some animals to be put to sleep...and might cause some rescues to have > to shut down... summary of the story. The animals Petsmart is accused of abusing are things like hamsters. I'm sorry, I can't get that upset about rodents. Most of them leave the store destined to be a snake's dinner, and no one seems to think that's abuse. Petsmart carries a lot of products I can't find anywhere else, like the only litter the six wildcats and I can agree on. They run clean, well-stocked, pleasant stores. Nothing in the story indicated a problem more serious than failing to adequately supervise some low level employees who didn't realize that whacking a sick hamster on the head wasn't the best way to euthanise it. I will certainly continue to patronize Petsmart. ----------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Hutchins Research Fellow, HSRP/SPH hutch...@tc.umn.edu University of Minnesota (612) 624-1411 (voice) (612) 378-4866 (fax) A355 Mayo, 420 Delaware SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 ----------------------------------------------------------- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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