{"id":753069,"date":"2018-04-30T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753069"},"modified":"2018-04-30T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:52:04","slug":"expose-sick-animals-left-to-die-diseases-filth-and-more-at-petsmart-stores-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753069","title":{"rendered":"Expos\u00e9: Sick Animals Left to Die, Diseases, Filth, and More at PetSmart Stores Across the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>When one of the mice, Brain, developed a swollen face and walked with a head tilt, supervisors said that they could \u201csquish\u201d or freeze him to death. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A 2017\u20132018 PETA eyewitness investigation of three PetSmart, Inc., stores across the country found systemic neglect and widespread animal suffering&#8230; Managers at a Nashville, Tennessee, store repeatedly refused to provide sick, injured, and dying animals with veterinary care in order to \u201ckeep costs down\u201d so that they would receive bonuses&#8230; On April 13, 2018, the Nashville District Attorney\u2019s Office filed cruelty-to-animals charges against PetSmart store managers Gregory Gordon, Kris Stengel, and Tonya Smith. PETA\u2019s investigation\u2014which also included stores in Brandon, Florida, and Peoria, Arizona\u2014revealed that PetSmart stocked animals with diseases that were transmissible to humans&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>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 \u201chorrendous\u201d but that PetSmart still sources animals from it because \u201cPetSmart\u2019s cheap&#8221;&#8230; 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 \u201csquish\u201d or freeze him to death. The store manager said, \u201cHe\u2019s just a mouse. Who cares?\u201d&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em> A manager at the Nashville store explained that PetSmart makes most of its billions of dollars not from peddling live animals, but from selling \u201chard goods\u201d\u2014the supplies that customers purchase for their animal companions\u2014because they\u2019re marked up \u201c2 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 \u201cthe store can make a lot of money\u201d by \u201cupselling\u201d supplies for them&#8217;. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/investigations.peta.org\/petsmart-expose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kYLMceh2DbU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;A 2017\u20132018 PETA eyewitness investigation of three PetSmart, Inc., stores across the country found systemic neglect and widespread animal suffering&#8230; Managers at a Nashville, Tennessee, store repeatedly refused to provide sick, injured, and dying animals with veterinary care in order to \u201ckeep costs down\u201d so that they would receive bonuses&#8230; On April 13, 2018, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[27,35],"class_list":["post-753069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753071,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753069\/revisions\/753071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}