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Originally Posted by CarolineH
I don't know if that would be possible as most of these 'farms' are in Eastern Europe so I have been told. If there was a concerted education campaign to persuade people not to buy animals from those larger pet stores that might make an impact? But thing is, people want to buy small pets from somewhere and it is not easy to find breeders. The pet shops sell small animals usually at a loss because they can usually sell the whole set up, food, toys etc to the same customer when they buy one and that is where their profit lies.
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I'm pretty sure there's quite a few rodent farms in the UK. If those could be shut down and we start educating people about where pet shop animals come from it would be a massive step towards people not buying from pet shops altogether which would be a huge blow for rodent farms in other parts of the world.
It isn;t that hard to find breeders, people just don;t really know much about breeders or don;t know where to start looking. I think that people assume that pet shop animals will be healthy.
I know that the majority of the profit lies in the equipment but they still do make some profit from the animals, but not much.
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