i went to the lfs today known for being a very good fish store. well, theyve gone down hill quite a bit lately and i was looking around at their bettas when i wandered to near the back of the store (where they keep the bettas they dont have room to display in the front) and to my shock they had one of those TINY cup like bowls that they fill half way with TWO male bettas in it! my mouth dropped as i saw pieces of fins floating all around them, and i rushed the cup over to a saleslady and asked why they were ever put together and she just replied "uhh .. oops." i felt so bad for the bettas, they were torn to shreds but the lady did move them to different bowls, so hopefully theyll find homes by themselves now

Some People Are Just Dumb <_<
Good Thing You Noticed Them [The Fish]^_^

Yes i must agree these days people hier
any body and they don't know any thing about fish ect ect....
there should be many that should get fired.

:angry:

Yep the people that hired them should get a smack in the head "like HELLO?!?!" Maybe you should hire someone who knows what they're doing or be trianing who you hire!

I wanted to work at a pet store but I decided not to because they treat their animals so bad and I knew I would get in tons of fights there.

Celebr8monkeyday,wouldn't it be best if you worked at a pet store?
to actually teach them about animal care and how to
treat them?

I personaly find that NOT ALL pet shops treat there fish and other animals badly.
Im sure many pet shops if the knew about the 10 to 15 gallon
rule for goldfish would try to use it but can't,they only
have so mutch place.

OH MY I started to cry when I read that. that's so sad.

I don't think its sooo horrible how they treat the animals normally as long as theyre alive because I understand, they can't take care of these animals as good as people would because they would go out of business. But I hate it when they just don't care. I dont think you should work in a pet store if you couldnt care less about an animals life. They just watch these animals die and they just dont care. One time these two hamsters were KILLING eachother. One had no nose left! IT was torn off! And it was sitting in the corner struggling to breath and then the other one would com back and attack it. And e told the lady and she didn't even go to look at them!

I agree with Celeb. I could not work at a "regular" pet store. I don't want to endorse the selling of puppy mill puppies and kittens, or hawking animals and fish to people that don't have a clue.

Celeb, you would like the pet store near me. She does not sell puppies or kittens, but occasionally has cats/kittens in that are for adoption.

She rehabiltates animals, and loves them and cares for them as much as us. They live like royalty at her store.

Everywhere you look there are animals with "NOT FOR SALE" on their cages or tanks because she ends up keeping some that are dumped there heehee.

And they ask questions and make sure that the new owner knows what they are doing.



Now about those two bettas. Maybe they were supposed to be fighting?? For the entertainment of humans..... *shudders*

Jessica

i hope someone wouldnt put them in together just to see them fight :ph34r: i was trying to figure out how on earth they ended up in the same tiny bowl and i was thinking of it, and they put them in magnified bowls, and sometimes with the white bettas, if theyre just sitting at the bottom of the bowl theyre not so noticable, and there was a white betta in the bowl with a bright red one, so i figured maybe the white betta was in there first, and someone didnt see him or look at the bowl closely and just plopped the red betta in, thinking it was an empty bowl. i think im going to go buy one or both of the beat up little guys today and make nice homes for them(apart.. Lol), since they were SO torn up im not sure someone would want to buy them from first glance, but both of them were very pretty, but theyre looking kind of sad since they barely have fins anymore

Yippee, you are going to buy the little guys. They don't stand much of a chance in the pet store. They would probably end up with problems from poor water since they have been damaged.

Another thought about how they ended up in the same cup is some weird customer doing it for kicks. Nothing would surprise me, anymore :angry:

Hi, my daughters were shopping at nnnnnn a few months ago and looked at the fishtanks, of course, they looked terrible, fish had obvious Ick, tanks were dirty, dead fish laying in them.

So, they asked for the store manager, and complained to him that the tanks look terrible, there were dead fish, the conditions are not healthy for the fish and "how much are the people in this department trained?" The manager fumbled, and told them he would take care of the sick Ick fish right away, and looked for the medication. My daughters had to tell him WHICH medication to use and how to use it!

He also told them that the ill looking fish were most likely sick fish customers sometimes bring into nnnnnn and drop into their tanks! what the heck?!
Is he serious? do people really do something that nasty with their fish?
They were disgusted, we wrote to Walmarts corporate office and heard no reply about the bad state their fish department is always in. No matter which nnnnnn you visit in our state, they are all terrible! the employees have no clue how to take care of the fish.

My mom works at one, is a big animal lover and is sickened and upset about the treatment. They are handled very roughly when they come to the store dumped into tanks, she said customers even pick fish out, they are bagged, and she or an employee will find the fish sitting in a bag on a shelf or in the front part of the cart being jostled around! Or small kids swinging them all over as they walk thru the store. She makes comments, tries to educate who works in the fish area, but the customers are the worst sometimes!

people are so cruel sometimes. breaks our hearts. My mom rescued a large Plecostomus last year after a woman who is a co-worker brought him in carrying him in a bucket from home, crying that her husband was going to harm or kill him, he hated the Pleco... She thought someone might buy him there, but Mom took him home right away and he is happy and spoiled living in her 60 gallon tank ALL by himself! he's about 9" long now...

Lynn