OriginalFlintstone
Mama Doe
I decided to go and visit a petshop I've not visited for ages today as I never hear good things about it.
Rabbits and guineas are kept together inside and the pens had flys all over and flying around, They keep Giant Rabbits in aviarys outside surrounded by chickens and budgies, cockatiels, parakeets etc. The giants have the top half of a carrier, and a small pile of straw nothing else.
I was watching a member of staff sell a pair of chinese hamsters to a lady with a small boy. He told them nothing about these little guys at all. Th hamsters were all literally cowering in the corner of their cage and he was putting his hand in so quickly just grabbing at them. One peed on him so he dropped it back into the cage :shock::shock: When they were in the box he wrote the price on top with a marker pen right by the air hole... fumes??
The little boy was carrying the hamsters round the shop and being so rough with them. Eventually he put them down on a shelf... had a paddy, mum went mental and they left the shop. I hung around for about 10 -15 minutes and no one did anything with the hamsters, despite 3 staff walking past and looking at them.
So in a crazy moment I picked up the box and went and paid for them.
I've only got a syrian cage, and I have no idea what they were fed in the shop. I can see their little faces peeking out of the box but they haven't come out yet.
I'm going to be complaining to the shop and the council, but if anyone else is local enough to visit and also complain that would help. This place is a disgrace. It's a garden centre in a village called Porton in Wiltshire.
Rabbits and guineas are kept together inside and the pens had flys all over and flying around, They keep Giant Rabbits in aviarys outside surrounded by chickens and budgies, cockatiels, parakeets etc. The giants have the top half of a carrier, and a small pile of straw nothing else.
I was watching a member of staff sell a pair of chinese hamsters to a lady with a small boy. He told them nothing about these little guys at all. Th hamsters were all literally cowering in the corner of their cage and he was putting his hand in so quickly just grabbing at them. One peed on him so he dropped it back into the cage :shock::shock: When they were in the box he wrote the price on top with a marker pen right by the air hole... fumes??
The little boy was carrying the hamsters round the shop and being so rough with them. Eventually he put them down on a shelf... had a paddy, mum went mental and they left the shop. I hung around for about 10 -15 minutes and no one did anything with the hamsters, despite 3 staff walking past and looking at them.
So in a crazy moment I picked up the box and went and paid for them.
I've only got a syrian cage, and I have no idea what they were fed in the shop. I can see their little faces peeking out of the box but they haven't come out yet.
I'm going to be complaining to the shop and the council, but if anyone else is local enough to visit and also complain that would help. This place is a disgrace. It's a garden centre in a village called Porton in Wiltshire.