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Not sure I really want to know the answer to this question but....

do the pet stores keep the puppies and kittens in those cages over night as well as all through out the day?? :confused:

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**la la la**

doesnt want to know :(

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i know i know i know! But just feeling so crap having seen all those puppies looking so lonely!

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The puppy typically has two months to find a buyer, and then they get sold to the local Korean restaurants.
The only good news is that cats get six weeks. Evil little farkers.
The proof:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1242664/pesky_pug/

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Yes...they do in most cases.

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oh

my

god

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I am hoping you are having me on................................ seriously though.... do they stay overnight??

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oh no melly.... this is not good. :(

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Next time you go to the pet shop, lift up the tail and look closely where it joins the body and you should be able to make out the "sell by" date if you are close enough.

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I'm pretty sure they do but what pisses me off is that there's bright lights in the pet stores and the rats are trying to sleep ('cos they're nocturnal).

I'm never buying any pets from a pet shop again.

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thats awful.. I have to say, this is the one thing I am struggling with over here... Its just done so differently in the UK. I dont think I can let myself go into another store, it broke my heart today.

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but at least it gets them out of that hell!!!

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It only encourages more dogs to be sold that way. If no one bought them from a pet shop the market for them would dry up.

A good dog breeder wouldn't dream of allowing their puppies to be sold in a pet shop.

To the OP...yes the poor things are kept in the cages overnight...most of the day too. :mad:

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I don't like 'em either. Have yet to see a decent looking animal come from a pet store.
I've often wondered the same thing about overnights and what really happens to the ones who don't get sold.

Usually they discount the price of the dog to get it sold. If it still does not get sold, they either send it back to the breeder (which is a puppy mill since good breeders do not sell to pet stores). The puppy miller will then do one of 3 things :
A) contact a rescue to remove the animal (not often)
B) kill it and throw it in a field to be used as fertilizer
C) keep it for breeding

* 6 months ago

Source(s):
I foster for rescues' For more info on puppy mills go to:
http://stoppuppymills.org/
http://www.puppymills.com/
http://www.puppiesarebiodegradable.com/
www.prisonersofgreed.org

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Sympathy for rats :eek:

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... only to be replaced by more animals who are waiting to be sold. If there's no demand, the pet shop won't be in business for long.

There's plenty of animal shelters and non-profit animal adoption organizations that have unwanted animals. Pet shop animals are bred to be sold.

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I definitely wont buy an animal from a pet store and strongly discourage others from doing so. Most of my friends have dogs from shelters or bona-fide breeders.

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Domesticated rats, not the ones you find in your house or on the street. Domesticated rats are altogether a different class of rat.

Check out my ratty pics in the Photo Gallery.

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Depends I know our pet store takes them to kennels at their home after each day.

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thanks everyone for all the info, although I find it alittle hard to stomach. :mad:

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I know I know I am the woman that can't even watch Lassie it reduce's me to a total wimp crying.:cry_smile:

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:olol - that sounds just like me! Cried in the pet store today. Slightly embarrassing!!

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For those of us who like doggy stories with a happy ending:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ue-centre.html

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NOT...in my house :eek:

..and thanks, but I will pass on the pics!

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i do also agree that i wouldnt buy from a pet shop - im hopefully adopting my cat on saturday from a rescue centre!!

Wish I could take them all home tho :(

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Wuss!:p

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Most people don't have $300 to plunk down on a full bred pet either. So what's the answer? I hate seeing them locked up too, but how else do they get to find homes?

I know at our local Petsmart, all the cats and dogs there are fostered, so they go home with people at night. I assume the birds, & rodents stay there.

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The only dogs and cats Petsmart sell around here are from the animal shelters or as you said they are foster homes. They are usually brought to the store on a Saturday or Sunday. I'm referring to the smaller pet shops...normally located in malls and strip malls. They normally keep the animals in the store 24/7.

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There must be some slightly different laws up there, because I've never seen a pet shop in a mall. Without having seen one, I have no idea of the conditions they are in. But it does sound like it is far from ideal.

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If that's the case go to the local animal shelter. Alternatively there are organisations that foster certain breeds of dogs...pedigree dogs that for one reason or another have lost their home.

Buying puppies from pet stores only encourages more puppy farms.

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Depends on the pet store...the chains probably do....small family businesses might be different...there's a decent one nearby, they don't do dogs though, nor rats.

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I actually got my last couple of rats from a local chain, but only because the missus used to work with the person who now manages it and we know that the rats are from a decent breeder...there aren't many in the state, but it's from one of them...I'd go direct, but they're over 40 mins away...

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This begs the question. What does this local, independent pet store sell then? No animals?

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I'm not letting her go near anymore pet shops - she broke my heart seeing her so upset :(... I was also heart broken going into the same pet shop.. ended up crying my eyes out and OH giving in and buying the puppy..:o And trying to hide it from the landlord.. until the shaggin' gardners told him we now had 2 dogs!!!!!!

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Nobody's obliged to buy a pedigree dog. Your route to pet ownership is determined by your budget and your conscience.

I personally don't have a problem adopting a (domestic) rat from a rat rescue. I'm not so keen on rat breeders.

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cats, fish, hamsters, rabbits and a handful of birds.

The cats have a huge walk way that goes over all the aisles, it's pretty cool...a lot of them are from a shelter. That's why they don't do dogs, wouldn't be enough room for them in the store.

They don't do rats or mice because of the breeders for snakes around here.

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LOL - i know, sorry samba!! I'm just over emotional when it comes to animals!! and those doggies just look so sad and unloved sat in there.

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Move awayyyyy from the petshops.....:D

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No, they're given massages after a hard day's work of looking cute and then served fillet mignon in a solid gold food bowl, then tucked up in a huge fluffy white bed and sung lullabies to until they drift of into sleep.

Believe my story.

Its nicer that way.

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thank you sarah, i'll sleep better now!!