Cages & Enclosures

Hello! ^.^ This is SilverDawn, to post on cages and enclosures. 

At zoos, large, wild animals are often kept in enclosures like this one. 

 

That's a pretty bad enclosure.There aren't many grasses or trees where the elephant is locked up. However it is better than some. 

 

This one is kept in a concrete-floored cage! Imagine if you were stuck in there, and you're not a three ton elephant!

And it isn't only large, zoo animals. 

Some dogs spend much of their life in a cage like this one!

 

 

But it is much worse for the birds. Dogs only stay in cages like that one until they get adopted. But look at the birds' situation. 

 

They spend all their entire life in there! :'(

Circuses usually have the worst cages.

 

:'(

 Animals should live in spacious cages - or preferably not at all!

~SilverDawn

The truth about petsmart...

Hey guys! So today I'm going to post about a secret that the world needs to know. I honestly don't know where to begin with this. So here I go...Petsmart and Petco get their animals from places that abuse and neglect them. It's terrible and has to be stopped. I called them once to see if this was true. I politely asked them where they get their small animals from. The lady hung up. Hmm...interesting...I wonder why she hung up...?! I called a different location...I politely asked. The guy said they get them from "Rainbow World Exotics". The exact place that was mentioned in the PETA video. I knew it!! PETA is a organization that is trying to stop petsmart and petco from selling small animals.  If you want to learn more..Click here!
Thanks!

Dreamy

Pet Shops/Stores

Meep! 

Here're I'm just going to post a few creepy (or just plain mean, cruel and horrible) pet shops. 

This one I heard about from Dreamy.

Right, so this one is the American PetSmart. 

Or not so smart? They say "Shop for your next live pet at PetSmart!" 

That's only the first creepy thing. LIVE?! Of course you need a live pet?!

*shudders*

Here's a picture:

 

Meep! O.O

Anyway, being a reptile lover, I went to check if they sold chameleons. (One of my two favourite animals.)

They did.

 Practically 100$?! Sheesh! I mean, come on! 

Think about it - you may as well fly to Spain for 54£, pick up as many chameleons as you want and fly back. WAY cheaper. 

Ok, that's a bit off topic. But as Dreamy had said that PetSmart was decidedly horrible and got their animals from places which neglect and abuse them, so I looked up PetSmart's reputation.

0% good. 100% bad.

One woman practically got knocked out by the manager as he accused her of stealing!

Others just say that they're horrible to the animals - namely small cages, mistreated and unhealthy.

Plus you see they put "IN-STORE ONLY" on the pictures.

 Do you think it would even occur to someone to put a chameleon in a parcel and ship it off to the other side of the continent? Ok, probably, but not to someone sane.

Then I clicked the chameleon, and scrolled down to look at the details;

(click to enlarge)

Soo...feed them 1-2 times a day? Well, I guess it depends how much you're giving them, but I know from experience that one healthy juvenile chameleon should eat at least 20 grasshoppers a day. An adult can go with around 10. And what they put there is very unclear. 

Well, this is getting a bit sidetracked.
But please help stop all this!!
 

I'll post some more later.

~Kinyonga

P.S Dreamy - did you send a letter or email PetSmart? If email - what is their email?