Have sold a single male out of a pair and left a boy on his own. Grrrr what is wrong with them? In a weeks time he'll be in the adoption centre. Makes my blood boil.

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Mum to the meece:- Milly, and Bramble. And the rats:- Blossom, Vimes, Mort, Teppic, Leo, Hex, Oats, Binky, Kevin, Honey, Blu, Pixie, Patch, Vyrt, Havelock, Squibbles and Newt. And Charlie the dog x

http://scritches.webs.com

I absolutely hate Pets at Home, they're useless. None of the staff in my local one know anything about animals. I purchased a hamster 2 years ago, got home and read the form and it said "X has told the customer the hamster's gender, age etc" when he hadn't told us anything! Luckily we've had pets all our lives but imagine first time buyers.

Makes me so angry.

We got Binky 4 weeks ago "poor thing was on his own and no one wanted him" out of the adoption centre. Now another one is going to be there. Yet they tell people rats need company why sell one of a pair then? Or in Binky's case a pair out of a trio.

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Mum to the meece:- Milly, and Bramble. And the rats:- Blossom, Vimes, Mort, Teppic, Leo, Hex, Oats, Binky, Kevin, Honey, Blu, Pixie, Patch, Vyrt, Havelock, Squibbles and Newt. And Charlie the dog x

http://scritches.webs.com

When I got Cookie it was from the adoption bit but apparently "he is aggressive" so I enquired about taking him to live with a group of boys as he should be and was told that "you cant add rats to an existing group" so I asked to speak to a manager and said that you can, and I had bonded new rats, male rat groups and female groups, so they let me have him but with the warning that "his name is Hanibal the canibal because he bites so much". Anyway he doesnt live with my boys as it happens SHE lives with my girls (yay for P@H and their ability to sex animals ) and she is the sweetest natured rat that anyone could ever meet, she has never bitten or tried to bite since the day I got her.

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gsds (Henrick and Bella), the cats (Syd, Lilly, Elvis and Dizzy), the gerbils (Honey, Lisa, crusty, Millhouse, Flanders, Bart and Homer), the rats (Valentine, Flower, Petal, Blossom, Koda, Cava, George), the mice (Minnie, Pop, Seudag, Caraid, Silver, Trouble, Athena, Pandora, Aphrodite, Meep, and Springtime)

Pets at home only sold me 1 rat (this is a good few years ago) because they 'couldnt live in pairs/groups'

I went elsewhere to get her friends, they were fine and live to good old ages


They also sold my friends 'groups of syrian hamsters' she kept wondering why they died??

They told us Binky was 5 months old. No way. He's much closer to 3 months. I mean we knew he was going to be an unknown. Based on his behaviour he's been on his own longer then the week they told us before he got here. On the plus side he's extremely people oriented but on the down side, not much of a clue what to do with rats.

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Mum to the meece:- Milly, and Bramble. And the rats:- Blossom, Vimes, Mort, Teppic, Leo, Hex, Oats, Binky, Kevin, Honey, Blu, Pixie, Patch, Vyrt, Havelock, Squibbles and Newt. And Charlie the dog x

http://scritches.webs.com

My local RSPCA once told me I was cruel to keep my Syrian on her own With advice like that P@H ranks quite knowledgable round here lol Give them their due I have heard them give good advice to customers but that makes it worse when I see one male sold, one left.

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Mum to the meece:- Milly, and Bramble. And the rats:- Blossom, Vimes, Mort, Teppic, Leo, Hex, Oats, Binky, Kevin, Honey, Blu, Pixie, Patch, Vyrt, Havelock, Squibbles and Newt. And Charlie the dog x

http://scritches.webs.com

Its not just them, there was a single girl rat in Jollyes when we went in there, it was quite upsetting as my daughter kept asking if we could adopt her as, in my daughter's words 'it's not fair that they're selling rats on their own', I had to explain to her that buying an animal because we felt sorry for it would mean they have more money to buy in more animals
No wonder first time owners who buy from pet shops often end up with pregnant animals or don't keep them correctly when the staff don't even know correct husbandry themselves

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Its so hard to leave them, we caved with Binky as he was so tiny and boney. First time I have bought/adopted from a pet shop. I know they call it the adoption centre but it is really for the sale of 'old stock'. We'll not be visiting P@H over the next few weeks if we can help it because I know there'll be a lone male in their adoption centre.

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Mum to the meece:- Milly, and Bramble. And the rats:- Blossom, Vimes, Mort, Teppic, Leo, Hex, Oats, Binky, Kevin, Honey, Blu, Pixie, Patch, Vyrt, Havelock, Squibbles and Newt. And Charlie the dog x

http://scritches.webs.com

They do run 'some' adoption. Mine are actually fairly honest in their adoption descriptions. A lot say 'nobody wanted to buy me' whereas the adoption ones always tend to say 'my owner couldnt look after me anymore' I only ever look at those ones.

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