Big Chain Pet Store Throws Out Live Animal In Garbage

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This is only one of the many reasons why I dislike Big Chain Pet Stores... So depressing. Improper treatment and neglect is not going to stop any time soon either. It's so common for bad things to happen to the animals in big chains, it has been going on for so long now. This is not a shock video, no dead animal is on film but there very well could have been if it weren't for PhrynosomaTexas finding the Iguana before it dies a painful death. If I could make any suggestions for future animal purchases, it would be to get an animal from a specialist/location that specializes in proper organization and care of the animal you are looking to buy.

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You'd think they could at least feed it to a snake or something...

what a world.

Was it in the bag by itself?

Reason I'm asking is cause animals can do some crazy things. My dad was taking out the trash one time only for him to hear it start meowing, turns out one of the kittens (this was decades ago) had gotten into the trash and he didn't know it.

Needless to say that kitten needed a bath.

A lot of the animals at pet stores are from puppy or kitty mills. I prefer to adopt from a shelter an animal that would otherwise not have a home. My puppy, for example, would probably have died run over by a car, or starving if we had not taken him.

Yes, I have heard of animals doing odd things like that. My cat loves to go in bags. A coworker told me that once, one of her cats got into the trash bag, her husband closed it, and was ready to take it outside, when she noticed that one of the cats was missing. They heard the trash meowing, and there was the cat. If she hadn't noticed before, he would have ended up in the dumpster by mistake.

I once found a hamster in a cage in the dumpster outside of my apartment building. The cage was one of those plastic ones and it was trashed, so I took the little guy, bought him some nifty new stuff, and gave him to my sister for her birthday.

It's horrible,lots of Iguana rescue groups report people finding tanks with live lizards in dumpsters.Only about one in a hundred baby Iguanas make it to adult hood.They are sold as cheap 20.00 dollar disposable pets.They have also shown up as prizes at carnivals,this should be reported to an animal welfare group if anyone attends an event where live animals are handed out as prizes.You may even have to go as far as reporting it to the health department as lots of Iguanas can carry salmonella you can shut them down this way.My little Iguana is a rescue,I refuse to purchase one from a chain pet store.It breaks my heart,they are such intelligent animals but since they are reptiles people don't think of them as having feelings.

I hope that maybe animal rescue would get them,at least they could be put to sleep if no one adopted them.It would be better than being pulled apart by a toddler.There is an article on this in one of the Iguana rescue sites but I don't remember which one.They didn't shut down the whole carnival,just the booth with the Iguanas.It bothers me to think they used to hand out goldfish in bags as prizes for kids,no telling how many cooked in people's cars or just got chucked in the trash.They used to have all these pastel dyed chics and ducklings at Easter time in all the grocery stores when I was little,the suffering those poor things went through. They would always buy some for me,one got loose and the cat caught it and killed it right in front of me,poor chick.The ones that made it to adulthood wound up getting butchered since they were always roosters.Talk about childhood trauma and the roosters weren't too happy about it either.

Why couldn't you keep the rooster as a pet?

I guess since there were multiples, you'd have to get rid of a few. Roosters don't typically play nice with other roosters. But it seems like you could've kept one.

At the time we lived in the suburbs and as soon as they crowed their time was up.I do have pet roosters now and they are pretty nice to each other,there's a pecking order but no one gets hurt.They were all raised together and they are not an aggressive breed like the Old English Games,they are Japanese Bantams so they are pretty docile.

The seller puts them into the bag, then into a container with stuffing in it (usually but not this one so it seems), and that container goes into a larger cardboard box with stuffing inside, and they ship it out to the buyer.

I am not an insane animal rights activist, or even a reptile lover.
I don't need to be to see that this is, horribly, blatantly wrong.
The sad thing is that things like this probably happen on a regular basis and people just aren't around to see it.

How right you are,no telling what happens that we are unaware of.