This petition is in circulation at the moment. It's to stop p@h from selling animals due to the countless amounts of problems customers have had.

Ban the sale of livestock at all 'Pets at Home' branches Petition

I don't want any arguments. But i do believe that that p@h should not be able to sell animals until their staff are re-trained and knowledgable.

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I've personally never had any problems with the pets I've bought from there and the staff at my branch seem to really know what they're doing. Maybe its a one off or something

i totally agree!

when i sent the OH up there for advice about our gerbils they were useless and then put us in the adoption book as having an 'unwanted litter' which is untrue!

argh they annoy me in that shop!

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I don't believe it is i'm affraid

P@h are getting worse rep with each day that passes. Customers are no longer impressed. And the quality of life that the animals have in roughly 70% of p@h stores across the UK is disgusting

Plus there hundreds of animals needing homes in rescues

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I would totally agree with them being unable to sell animals but I do think their adoption bit at least gives owners who are bored oops I mean can no longer keep their beloved pets somewhere to take them. I saw a grandparent buying her grandaughter a fish there yesterday and they had one of the very small plastic travel containers with lids, nobody asked if that was what the fish would be living in if it is it won't be living long.

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Totally agree P@H should not be any where near live animals..
The Breeding,selling and after care of any pet, no matter how big or small should be left to those that know about it, The Professional Breeders.. not some hormonal 16 yr old that got a saturday job just to pay for his illegal habits what every they may be!
I hate seeing any animal in a shop.. if this was ment to happen, every living thing would come with its own barcode!

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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?

oooo i dont know about this one! i dont think they should be able to sell guineas or rabbits or chinchillas or degus....do they still sell birds? anyway, they should sell hammy and rats...and have a better selection of cages!

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So whats the difference between a rabbit/guinea/chin and a hamster or rat?
Why sell one, but not be able to sell the other?

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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