When one of the mice, Brain, developed a swollen face and walked with a head tilt, supervisors said that they could “squish” or freeze him to death.
PETA: ‘A 2017–2018 PETA eyewitness investigation of three PetSmart, Inc., stores across the country found systemic neglect and widespread animal suffering… Managers at a Nashville, Tennessee, store repeatedly refused to provide sick, injured, and dying animals with veterinary care in order to “keep costs down” so that they would receive bonuses… On April 13, 2018, the Nashville District Attorney’s Office filed cruelty-to-animals charges against PetSmart store managers Gregory Gordon, Kris Stengel, and Tonya Smith. PETA’s investigation—which also included stores in Brandon, Florida, and Peoria, Arizona—revealed that PetSmart stocked animals with diseases that were transmissible to humans…
The eyewitness also recorded a supervisor instructing employees not to tell customers that PetSmart buys animals from Sun Pet, Ltd., an abusive Atlanta warehouse that was put on probation by the Georgia Department of Agriculture following a PETA investigation in 2010. The supervisor said that conditions at Sun Pet were “horrendous” but that PetSmart still sources animals from it because “PetSmart’s cheap”… Multiple mice from one Sun Pet shipment became bloated, developed a discharge from their eyes and ears, and struggled to breathe. When one of these mice, Brain, developed a swollen face and walked with a head tilt, supervisors said that they could “squish” or freeze him to death. The store manager said, “He’s just a mouse. Who cares?”…
A manager at the Nashville store explained that PetSmart makes most of its billions of dollars not from peddling live animals, but from selling “hard goods”—the supplies that customers purchase for their animal companions—because they’re marked up “2 to 300 percent. The manager said that PetSmart corporate officials had considered not selling live animals because they could lose money, but they do keep selling them because “the store can make a lot of money” by “upselling” supplies for them’. SOURCE…
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