Buying from Petshops - Page 3

WelshYorkieLover · #21 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by OctodonDegus

I agree, but I also fear for the animals. If no one is buying them, what is their fate? they are still lives which need to be taken into account.

Exactly!!!!! That just goes to show that you care about animals and that people who just refuse to get pets from a pet shop just out of principle obvously cant care that much!! Principles doesnt home pet shop pets!!

B3rnie · #22 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SEVEN_PETS

It just shows how little people actually care about the animal they are bringing into their lives if they do not research properly before getting it. QUOTE]

That is not true at all! That is just your opinion! Just because someone buys a pet from a pet shop it doesn't mean they dont care about the animal. All my hamsters and my budgie when I was younger came from petshops.

What do you think happens to the animals if nobody buys them? Think about it! They deserve a home as much as any animal in the rescue!

SP was talking about not researching the pet, the fact that the people not researching can just pop to the shops to get the next fluffy critter. She didn't mean that everyone that buys from a petshop is uncaring.
Just that it encourages these sort of people.

And to answer your question if people stopped buying from petshops it would no longer be profitable for them to sell animals so they will stop

At the end of the day anyone that owns a shop is in it for the money they can make, they wouldn't do it if they didn't make money

I hope that makes sense

B3rnie · #23 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by WelshYorkieLover

Exactly!!!!! That just goes to show that you care about animals and that people who just refuse to get pets from a pet shop just out of principle obvously cant care that much!! Principles doesnt home pet shop pets!!

Err no I look at the bigger picture

I think my rescue animals will tell you I am very caring....

Clare7435 · #24 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by B3rnie

Yeah the bacteria can lay dormant until the immune system is compromised or they are put under stress

She was probably a carrier then so unless the breeder had a bun from those lines exhibit the illness they would have never known, did you contact the breeder to let them know what happened?

And yes unfortunately alot of vets will say PTS when they see EC symptoms not many vets know a lot about it so unless they are rabbit savvy they will opt PTS

Yeh it was the first thing i did after getting in from the vets, poor bloke was gutted but unless he had x ray vision which I'm pretty sure he hadn't I don't suppose he'd have known until the symptoms presented, he was really good though, even offered me another rabbit should the worst come to the worst which i really was trying not to think about at the time and luckily didn't have to as my vet thankfully is fantastic and had her turned around and walking again within 2 weeks, tbh the hardest part was keeping her back end clean, i ended up shaving off the fur round her bottom and putting a nappy on her to save her laying in her wee in her sleep with her being temp paralysed. She was one wonderful bunny though as it didn't affect her using her litter tray at all she went straight back to it as soon as she could walk again

WelshYorkieLover · #25 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:25 PM

Sorry Bernie I wasn't directing anything at you! It just got to me when the op said that people who buy from pet shops dont care about the animals!

B3rnie · #26 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by WelshYorkieLover

Sorry Bernie I wasn't directing anything at you! It just got to me when the op said that people who buy from pet shops dont care about the animals!

Sorry you hit a nerve

It's not the first time that has been said to me

WelshYorkieLover · #27 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:34 PM

I honestly did mean anything. I just feel for the animals that noone will buy because they're in a petshop. I haven't bought from a pet shop in years as you know my hamster and rats are taken in from homes who no longer wanted them but I just feel sorry for them if they're not being given a good home!

B3rnie · #28 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by WelshYorkieLover

I honestly did mean anything. I just feel for the animals that noone will buy because they're in a petshop. I haven't bought from a pet shop in years as you know my hamster and rats are taken in from homes who no longer wanted them but I just feel sorry for them if they're not being given a good home!

I too feel for them, I had to walk away from a very, very cute English lop cross today

I went to check out a new petshop in the area to see what they were like, and I spotted him in the corner

I had to be strong because if I bought him there would have been another litter produced to fill the gap

OctodonDegus · #29 (**permalink**) 08-12-2011, 09:47 PM

It' a difficult situation, I can see 2 sides of it. On the one hand if the pet shops are over run and no one is buying they may stop, but on the other hand there are lives who may be "gotten rid off" in a not so nice way, lives which may never be loved, and lives which are going to waste.

I think it just needs a different approach, of course I'm not suggesting we shouldn't do anything, I just think there needs to be a change in law, some awareness and some way these practices can be stopped and regulated.

No, it wont be easy, I don't know exactly how to approach it, but I think that's better than possibly risking the happiness of other animals. I want them all to win in the end.

This is not aimed at anyone, its just my opinion, I feel sad for both the animals in the farms and the ones who may never get homes...its just very difficult.

SEVEN_PETS · #30 (**permalink**) 09-12-2011, 05:53 AM

why are my old threads being brought up? and WelshYorkieLover, I don't mean that people who buy from pet shops are uncaring, I just meant that if you don't research and buy the animals on a whim, then that isn't caring. For example, like getting a rabbit and a hutch from the pet shop and the hutch is 3ft long because the owner didn't research how large the accommodation needed to be.

I have had pet shop animals in the past, I wouldn't buy them in the future, but I would buy animals from the adoption centres in Pets At Home and other pet shops that have this system. There's one bunny that is in P@H right now that I want (but don't have the space for so won't get her). She's a large REW bunny who's been in the store the whole of her 7 month life and no-one wants her because of her appearance. If I had the space, I'd have her.

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