Pet store tale, true or not?
I came across this on an internet forum where people were revealing the 'nasty unknowns' of jobs they have had in the past.
"Pet shops only sell 2/3 of their puppies before they get too old, become less desireable and therefore less profitable. So, every quarter when The Puppy Truck arrives with new replacement pups, the older ones are loaded on the truck and returned to the breeders to be "recycled" into feed for something else. If it was widely known that all pet shops who sell puppies participated in this you can imagine the results. Therefore The Puppy Truck is designed to hide what it is. It's a clean white unmarked semi on the outside but stainless steel wall to wall and floor to ceiling inside with small cages along the walls. No lights inside. The sound of three dozen barking, yowling, crying 8 week old pups in that metal box is beyond description. The drivers arrive at the stores after hours to do the swap. They have keys. No employees are -ever- told when they will come due to the fact they love animals and would likely quit en masse if they knew what was taking place. In fact as a rule they are not told about any of this. They order new pups from a breeders FAX sheet and the pups come and go without warning. Only the owner/manager knows and they don't talk. "
Do you buy it?
(P.S. Yahoo suggested I put this in Pets>Fish)
" You would also have to be a WEIRD FREAK to wanna kill animals on purpose" we do kill animals for meat. When we have livestock that is unfit to use for human food (like they are too old to be good meat) we grind them up and use them as protein additives in animal feed.
If someone is so heartless to run a puppymill keeping an adult mother in a small pen constantly churning out fresh puppies to sell, do you really think they'd balk at 'disposing' of puppies too old to be sold?
Do you think every puppy in a pet-store is eventually sold? Do you think the puppy store brings their too old puppies to the humane society animal shelters?
There are many products like magazines and newspapers and many fresh vegetables, where they only sell 2/3rds and the rest pass their 'freshness date'. The companies price the items so the 2/3rds that are sold pay for the 1/3 that expires. Do you think that doesn't happen for puppies?