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    Thumbs up Don't Buy Animals From Pet Shops!

    I came across this website (and thought I would share it) via a poster at www.Cat-World.com.au forums that I'm frequent-ing of late.....

    Resist the temptation to buy that gorgeous kitten or puppy in the window. Because this lucrative pet shop market exists in Australia, backyard breeders and "puppy farms" who supply to pet shops continue to churn out more and more poor puppies and kittens, much to the detriment of the animals.

    Approximately 130,000 dogs and 60,000 cats are killed at pounds every year. Unbelievable, eh?

    The practice of selling animals from pet shops promotes impulse buying and irresponsible breeding for profit. Please help us to stop it. We already have far too many dogs and cats without homes.



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    UGH!!!

    don't come on here to force your opinion on others.

    I <3 my champion breed doggie

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lola Rose View Post
    UGH!!!

    don't come on here to force your opinion on others.

    I <3 my champion breed doggie
    thats what i was thinking too.


    vee, its great your passionate about things, but not ALL pet shops work in a mannar where they take dodgy breeders pets.

    when i looked into possibly breeding rag doll cats theres a fuck load of red tape, and most pet shops follow laws.

    remember,like alot of things i think, it the user not the supplier who should be taking the wrap for being a shitty person when things go bad. blame the person who neglected the pet in the first place, not the pet shop inncoently supplying animals for affection.

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    actually, this made me angry. people need to learnt to take some fucking responsibilty and stop passing the buck when things go wrong!!!!

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    this was how my bella (who i rescued after she was dumped on a groomer that was planning to give her to the shelter) i fear was purchased. the impulse buying part is so true! not knowing how to raise a pup and have a pup is definitely a characteristic of the pet-shop-buyer and what i think brought bella to me. that douche who dumped her didn't know what they lost.

    pet shops are notoriously bad everywhere i guess, it's not just an ignorant american thing.

    Love it!

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    Um. I wasn't forcing my opinion on you or anyone. I just posted about a site to generate discussion. So.. um..... yeah... I'm a little as to where I forced my opinion on anyone.

    Plus I didn't say it IS my opinion. Please re-read my original post. I was sharing a site I thought was interesting and did not state my own opinion anywhere in the original post.

    Jeeze. I won't share interesting websites I come across next time then...

    *sigh*


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    how about just being a responsible pet owner?

    There are far worse injustices towards animals happening all the time, probably some that you (GCG) financially support.

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    I just think this type of post is better suited to member boards

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    I financially support animal cruelty? How? Where? Are you speaking about the WWF or Wildlife Warriors as they are my two charities I donate to each month. I don't consciously support animal cruelty in any form. I even buy "free range" eggs over cage eggs (besides the fact that they taste better etc).


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    Quote Originally Posted by GoldCoastGirl View Post
    I financially support animal cruelty? How? Where? Are you speaking about the WWF or Wildlife Warriors as they are my two charities I donate to each month. I don't consciously support animal cruelty in any form. I even buy "free range" eggs over cage eggs (besides the fact that they taste better etc).
    I'm not saying you are anti-animal, but I'm saying there is a lot of suffering in the farming industry. Anyone that buys meat, dairy or eggs is helping people profit off the abuse. Even if every egg you eat is free-range (which I doubt), there is no evidence to show that that chicken lived a "free-range" life its entire life and died a normal, natural death (what do you think happens to them when they stop producing eggs?) Also, what do you think happens to the male chickens that are a by-product of the "free-range" egg industry?

    If you buy leather or wool, you are also supporting animal cruelty. What about your cosmetics? Have any of them been tested on animals?

    I'm not trying to be preachy, just saying a humane death to dogs or cats is probably far better than the life of the cow that is being used to feed you....so be careful up on that ivory tower.

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    I agree with trying to stop impulse buying from pet shops. However..these animals in pet shops have to go somewhere. I would much rather adopt one, than have it go to a home where it was bought as an impulse, and will end up at an animal shelter. If I adopt from a pet shop, that is one mroe animal that wil have a happy, healthy life. Refusing to buy from pet shops will not save a pet. Rather, that pet may just go to a bad home and live a bad life.

    And as a side note...isnt free range not that great? I thought I read that just becaue it says free range, that just means the animal is exposed to sunlight and grass every day, btu there are no laws to how long, or how much. It can just mean that the chicken was in a 1 inch patch of grass outside for 2 minutes, and that is concidered free range. There are just no laws governing what free range means.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    I agree with trying to stop impulse buying from pet shops. However..these animals in pet shops have to go somewhere.


    That is something that anti-pet store people usually forget to cover.... unfortunately. Yes, I am breeder positive.... no I don't buy from pet stores (they usually don't have the quality I am looking for when I am seeking out pure breeds) but I also know that those pet shop animals need homes too. Somehow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    I agree with trying to stop impulse buying from pet shops. However..these animals in pet shops have to go somewhere. I would much rather adopt one, than have it go to a home where it was bought as an impulse, and will end up at an animal shelter.
    I don't understand this logic. If no one bought them, they would cease to exist within one generation and the entire problem would be eradicated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel View Post
    I don't understand this logic. If no one bought them, they would cease to exist within one generation and the entire problem would be eradicated.
    Yes and no. Probably not one generation, depending on the species. And... even if it were only one generation, try to imagine the number of animals that is. Say the average mall pet store has 20 dogs, 5 cats, 30 birds, 100 small rodentia, and 200 fish. That's 355 animals in one shop. Depending on the county, you could have anywhere from 3 - 10 shops in an hour radius of your home. Try to multiply that by gods know how many shops are in the US alone.... that's still a fuckton of animals who would have nowhere to go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaigeDWinter View Post
    Yes and no. Probably not one generation, depending on the species. And... even if it were only one generation, try to imagine the number of animals that is. Say the average mall pet store has 20 dogs, 5 cats, 30 birds, 100 small rodentia, and 200 fish. That's 355 animals in one shop. Depending on the county, you could have anywhere from 3 - 10 shops in an hour radius of your home. Try to multiply that by gods know how many shops are in the US alone.... that's still a fuckton of animals who would have nowhere to go.
    They do have somewhere, though. They have a little cage where the breeder keeps them on display. It is horrifically sad to imagine them living their lives out there, but worse than generations after them suffering ad infinitum. Just my opinion.

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    My logic is that people will forever continue to buy from pet shops. You would never be able to get enough people to refuse to buy in order to put it out of business. You will have small groups of activists refusing, but it will never be enough. Just like peopel refusing to buyproducts tested on animals. There will never be enough people who care enough to stop buying thoes products to put that practice out of business. Although it is a personal choice to not support animal testing, it will never be enough to completly stop it from happening. I would perfer to not let an animal in my lifetime suffer a life of living in a cage, than to hope generations to come have better lives. I cannot control what happens in generations to come, I can only control what happens now. I will not support animal testing, I wil not buy thoes products, but that is a personal choice. My small contribution will never be enough. It woudl be near impossible to get enough people to support the cause in order to shut it down. You can only do what you can do.

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    If I do support animal cruelty thru my diet choices it is not willingly. If I had all the money in the world so I could have a really decent food budget instead of the meagre one I have now .... then yes I would try to be animal friendly in my diet/food choices. Yet the fact of the matter stands that I don't have an unlimited or even huge food budget so I do the best under the circumstances that I am presented.

    I feel that if I at least support the right non profits and make some animal friendly food/diet choices then that is better than nothing.

    As it stands, I don't eat red meat, pork, lamb. I can't stand the taste. I don't drink alot of milk yet I do consume cheese. I buy eggs that are supported by the RSPCA thus "barn laid" or "free range". I eat chicken sporadically (not that often).

    I'm doing the best I can under the circumstances I am presented. I never ever EVER want to portray that I am anything but human which means I have my limitations and faults. I'm far from perfect. No one is in this world.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel View Post
    They do have somewhere, though. They have a little cage where the breeder keeps them on display. It is horrifically sad to imagine them living their lives out there, but worse than generations after them suffering ad infinitum. Just my opinion.
    And you have every right to that opinion.

    So lets say for the moment... that we get the entire world to agree to sacrificing those specific Last Of Their Kind breeder-supplied pets. So it's only shelter adoption. This means all animals are fixed before they're adopted. No accidental breeding. Cool. I'm all for no accidental breeding. Well here's were that generational thing comes back into play. First, let's talk fish. Without breeders, the population of domestically bred fish will drop significantly. And since most shelters don't have fish for adoption, that would leave acquiring new fish to catching them from the wild. This will drop the # of fish owned as pets drastically too. Why? Wild caught fish have less of a chance to acclimate to tank life. Also, the price of said wild caught fish will skyrocket, so less folks will be able to/want to buy them. Then there are birds, cold blooders, and rodentia. Best of luck finding folks to try to fix those. So that would mean that instead of them being bred by trained breeders, they'd be OOPS pregnant pets in the hands of kids, classrooms, and your average Joe. Yeah, that already happens, but this would mean that this is the ONLY way it happens. Then we have cats and dogs. Big time in the generational theory here. No more breeders + all fixed animals = species dying out after the youngest grow old and die. So either we'd end domesticated pet owning, or we'd go back to the beginning and try to domesticate wild cats and dogs. This, of course, would require breeders.


    I dunno... really, in MY ideal world, animals would be bred and sold ONLY by knowledgeable, responsible, awesome people. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. Thankfully there are SOME of us out there... and although we cant change the world, we can make SOME sort of difference, even if it's little.


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    I hear ya GCG I won't buy from a pet shop either. I would rather personally meet the breeder as I did the day that beautiful pom pom decided she was going home with me to take care of me.

    oh, and I buy free-range, organic eggs too. Not just for the happy chicken factor, but in an attempt to cut down on the number of hormones being pumped into my children.

    eta when I am ready to add a conure to the family I plan on adopting one from a rescue facility. I simply can't in good conscience buy one from petsmart when there are so many who's owners don't want them anymore.


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    I agree. Having worked in pet stores, adn on the other side in vet hospitas and withthe humane societies..I can say authoritatively....conservatively 95&#37; of pet stores in th eUS are getting their dogs/cats from puppy mills. Horrendous conditions..the mothers are bred over and over until they die...the puppies have major heath problems 9 times out of ten because the "breeders" arent screening for anything or caring for them properly.They are pumped out like an assembly line. If people stopped buying..they would stop producing. It is pure supply and demad. As long as people are still willing to buy these animals and their producers can turn a profit...they'll keep doing it.
    i cant tell you how many dogs and cats are DOA at the pet store. How many are so sick they never go out front and up for sale. How many die very quickly after they are purchased.Not to mention problems from inbreeding. To get the mot puppies as quickly as possible mothers are bred to sons, fathers to daughters, brothers to sisters. NOT good.
    These are not by any stretch of the imagination responsible breeders.
    And papers are falsified all the time...I saw it happen a lot. You will never get a 'grand champion bred" puppy from the mall. Never happen.

    and all AKC means is that the spaniel was only bred from spaniels....that the puppy is "pure" ...it does not mean healthy.


    Sorry...but this is a HUGE issue for me. I wish with all my heart that "backyard breeding" was illegal. That nobody could ever breed these animals unless they were properly licensed and routinely inspected. Not "my dog is cute and i want her to have puppies". I wish people would wake up and see the benefits for all involved in spaying and neutering.
    But..people are ignorant enough when it comes to children.....educating them about pets is an uphill battle I've been fighting my whole life.And will continue to fight.
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    I would never buy from a pet shop either. Puppy mills are disgusting and buying from these shops helps keep them in business. Buy your dog from a reputable breeder or bettter yet, adopt one.

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    I don't support any pet store that doesn't say where they got their animals and I (or someone I trust) can vouch for the "supplier".

    Usually, I just skip the middleman and go to breeders, though.

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    i'm going to a shelter tomorrow to look at kitties

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    I would only adopt a cat from a shelter, and the only way I would buy a dog would be through a small, AKC-certified, bloodline breeder.

    Pet shops depress me.

    But I agree that those little guys need homes, too! Amen for the law coming up in CA to demand that pets must be spayed/neutered w/o a breeder's license!

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    I too only adopt from the Human Society. I figure my need of having a purebred dog for bragging rights ( as would be for ME since I wouldn't take the effort to breed as all my animals are fixed) is less important than saving an abandoned animal's life. That viewpoint was strengthened once I worked for the Humane Society as well. Both of the cats that I had at my parents house were abandoned in an apartment once their owners decided they had to move without them, and my cat Lucifurr was found and brought in as a stray.
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