17-05-2009, 02:09 PM
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Location: West Yorkshire
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Re: Pets at home
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Originally Posted by Nonnie
Its not just the lack of knowledge that concerns me, but the fact that they are ALWAYS fully stocked with baby animals.
I used to work as a livestock buyer, and sometimes we would go weeks with no animals as they were hard to source, but P@H dont seem to have this problem, which makes me worry what sort of scale the breeding is done on.
I know in the US all P@H aniamls are bred en masse by their own centres, and i believe that the UK stores only use certain breeders.
I wonder what conditions these animals come from, and what the mortality rate is?
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I saw an article on a rodent farm the other day, it was horrible the conditions they were bred in and it said that most are sold on a sale or return basis tothe pet shops and the older ones that don't sell are euthanised and make it into the frozen reptile food market. I don't know how accurate that is though.
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