Pet World

[jsescher25]

I whent to pet world last night with my wife and when we walded into the fish room i was shocked to see that they had a tank with about 15 adult Figure 8 puffers in it atleast 4 of them were dieing they all had missing fins. then as we walked around i seen a full grown Mono being eaten by an albino oscer it was just unbeliveable i found the first worker that i seen and asked him what the hell was going on in there fish room.( he had no clue some high schooler) i also seen i blue spotted puffer (about 18" to 20") in a small 15g tank that really really needed to be cleaned.there was also alot of other problems i seen too many to list right now. i felt so bad for all of there fish i just wish i had the money and space to save all of there fish but i dont so i did the next best thing. i called around to see who i could contact and let know about the poor fish keeping going on at that store. Talked to the DNR and they said they were going to check it out also the local health department was going to check them out. so atleast i feel like i did my part to stop the cruelity that is takeing place at Pet World.

 

[Rusty_S]

Good for you, here's someone actually taking some constructive action rather than just sitting on their a** complaining about it

 

[jsescher25]

Thank you Rusty! I think more people should be proactive and not just sit around and do nothing

 

[fishatron7429]

i would do something but im only 13

 

[Rusty_S]

Absolutely you get too many people coming on here saying "I was so disgusted I just walked out, please boycott this lfs etc etc..." They don't seem to realise people don't notice negative action enough to make real changes. If you can get some authority in there to kick their butts over it then you're more likely to make a difference

 

[Rusty_S]

I admit when you're young it is hard to get people to listen to you and it's hard to get the confidence to phone animal cruelty authorities so I don't expect someone as young as you fishatron to go phoning up scary people I would have been afraid to do that at your age, hell I was too scared to phone anyone I didn't know at your age

 

[Daveo]

I can understand the fact that the puffers fins are missing because they are fin nippers. But for them to do everything else that you mentioned Uuuuuuuu that makes me mad. I would have ran right into the manegers office and give him a peace of my mind( yah right I would be to scared to do that ). 8)


Daveo

 

[jsescher25]

The thing that really got me mad was the Mono getting eaten by the oscer the main reason i whent to the pet store was to get a mono. if i would have gotten there about ten min. sooner i might have been able to save the mono