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Do Pet Shops where you live sell animals?

Do Pet shops sell animals or just animal supplies where you live.

  • Yes.

    Votes: 23 46.0%

  • No.

    Votes: 8 16.0%

  • I'm not sure.

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Some species. (please specify by posting a comment below.)

    Votes: 16 32.0%
  • Total voters
    50
HugDoggy

HugDoggy

Esteemed Citizen of ZV
So I was wondering if there are still places around that sell animals in pet shops, or if it is outlawed everywhere now.

For the record I am against animals being sold from shops, everything for your animal is fine to sell from a shop, but not the animal themselves.
Shops are in the business of making money which means sourcing the animals as cheep as possible and moving them on before they get to old and become a little less cute. Cute leads to impulse purchasing.
 
Haven't seen any pure pet shops in Indiana since the 90s, by that I mean usually in malls lined with cages selling dogs and cats and every other cute impulse animal you can think of. Those were definitely supplied by "puppy"mills and were all shutdown. Pretty sure laws came down across the US to ban them.

I know Petco does still sell fish and small animals (gerbils, ferrets, mice, birds, etc) and they have a couple cat cages up front, but I know the cats come from local shelters and are there for a week or so and rotated out as part of an adoption reach out program. They did stop carrying the small animals and cats last year as part of covid restrictions though and I haven't payed attention if they've come back, the cages are still there but haven't noticed if they're occupied again.
 
I have not been to any pet shop for a few years but as far as I remember only small animals like hamsters, mice, fish and sometimes birds were sold in shops. Nothing like cats or dogs.
 
Where I live, cats and dogs are foster homed. You choose from an online site and they are brought to you. It was done this way as a Covid measure, but has tured out to be amazingly healthy for the animal, so it's likely to stay that way.
Bunnies, mice, lizards, fish, spiders, etc. are still in the shops.
 
Zen said:
Where I live, cats and dogs are foster homed. You choose from an online site and they are brought to you. It was done this way as a Covid measure, but has tured out to be amazingly healthy for the animal, so it's likely to stay that way.
Bunnies, mice, lizards, fish, spiders, etc. are still in the shops.
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Where do the animals come from though? Are you talking about animals from rescue shelters or they from Breeders or something. I can't really imagine ordering an animal online without ever meeting them to at the very least see their personality. So how does it work do you try them for a week and hope you love them or send them back and get another. To be honest just on cursory glance I'm not so sure it sounds like a wonderful thing to have mail order animals, but perhaps I am missing something important.
 
Around a decade ago all the big and even medium pet stores near me in my city had cats, dogs, reptiles, fish, and rodents. Though sometime between then and now every single one either willingly stopped selling them, were shut down for animal abuse/neglect, or were forced to give them up due to abuse/neglect. Now all of them have almost nothing. At best you may find a fish section, but even that in the last 3 or so years has gotten smaller and smaller with time. When I didn’t know why I was upset by this, but now that I do know why, I am definitely happy that they no longer do. There are much better ways to go about the selling of pets then the way pet stores do it.
 
Some do, some doesn't . But you don't usually get to buy a pet, instead of adopting one (they don't track that much, they just give you a phone number to call and then you see which animal is free to adopt and you just pick it up, some ask you to vaccine it, deworm it, etc)
 
HugDoggy said:
Where do the animals come from though? Are you talking about animals from rescue shelters or they from Breeders or something. I can't really imagine ordering an animal online without ever meeting them to at the very least see their personality. So how does it work do you try them for a week and hope you love them or send them back and get another. To be honest just on cursory glance I'm not so sure it sounds like a wonderful thing to have mail order animals, but perhaps I am missing something important.
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They come from a variety of places, SPCA and a plethora of private rescue facilities.
You set up a meeting, the people interrogate (they call it an interview) you, making sure you're capable and worthy. Next, they see how the animal responds to you. If the animal doesn't like you or they have even an off feeling about you in the interview, the meeting is over!
This system has kept the abuse rate practically non existent once adopted.
There are online sales privately, but they are in the multi-kilobuck pedigreed territory. "Free dog" in the paper is practically a thing of the past.
 
Zen said:
They come from a variety of places, SPCA and a plethora of private rescue facilities.
You set up a meeting, the people interrogate (they call it an interview) you, making sure you're capable and worthy. Next, they see how the animal responds to you. If the animal doesn't like you or they have even an off feeling about you in the interview, the meeting is over!
This system has kept the abuse rate practically non existent once adopted.
There are online sales privately, but they are in the multi-kilobuck pedigreed territory. "Free dog" in the paper is practically a thing of the past.
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Well that all sounds quite reasonable and acceptable. :gsd_happysmile:
 
Just small animals like rabbits, guinipigs, hamsters as well as fish and reptiles. Kittens or puppies are direct from the breeders (well hopefully).
 
Depends on the pet store here. The closest one to me has fish, rodents and bunnies
A different one has them too, but also birds, reptiles and spiders
 
So from what people are reporting, it sounds like it all comes down to size and whether the animal would normally live in an enclosure as apposed to being given free rein of your house; if I am understanding things correctly. Which sounds a bit speciesist, but I guess ether you have to draw the line somewhere, unless you go all the way and don't sell anything living at all.

I just hope the snakes are kept out of sight from the mice, as that would be a living nightmare knowing a preditor was visible only a few metres away.
 
The nearest pet shop to me sells pet supplies and a few small animals like : snakes, fish, assorted lizards, stick insects and tarantulas.
 
Nothing else then fish and birds. Specialized shops selling snakes, lizzards etc...
 
I live in Wisconsin, lots of Dairy Farms and Farmlife type of folk, although I mostly never see shops that specifically breeds animals to be purchased, there are several ways to aquire animals in my state, one would be petsmart, you can adopt a dog, cat, bird, fish, snake, etc with money so I count that as selling... there are also small buisinesses that my friend went through to adopt rescue dogs as well as dogs that were surrendered to them. im sure there are also other buisinesses that deal with other animals too, there are obviously live animal auctions all the time for livestock and probably pets but I dont see those at all but I also dont look for them. And then there is a disabled horse sanctuary near me where you can have the opportunity to adopt a horse with medical needs, I think some of them are blind and others need special medication and care. So I would say yes, buying pets still exist but mostly as an adoption way.
 
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