Have a Heart, PETsMART, Stop Live Animal Sales.
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This petition for PETsMART to stop selling live animals is in response to the death of yet another recently purchased pet and is not a call for a boycott, but a promise of support if this ethical policy is adopted.
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Petsmart Inc
19601 North 27th Avenue,
Phoenix, AZ 85027
(623) 580-6100
(623) 395-6502 (fax)
[email protected]
Nick Saint-Erne, DVM
Quality Assurance Manager
PETsMART, Inc.
[email protected]
Dear Dr. Nick Saint-Erne,
We the undersigned are requesting that PETsMART stop selling live animals. It has been made apparent by the death of yet another recently purchased pet (a PETsMART guinea pig) that it is impossible to ensure all PETsMART stores, their employees, and the suppliers that the stores purchase their stock from maintain the minimum acceptable standards of care required for animals in their care.
Too frequently, sick animals are being sold to the unsuspecting public. The policy of replacement, although reasonable with inanimate objects, does not work with living creatures. To return a sick animal for a replacement requires a detachment not likely to be found in someone, often a child, who already regards the ill pet as a member of their family.
No doubt PETsMART veterinarians are qualified to deal with dogs and cats, but do they have the special training and experience required to deal with exotics such as guinea pigs? In cases involving exotic animals this inexperience commonly results in delayed medical treatment and high costs for new owners when they finally turn to a vet trained to deal with their animal. Heartbreak is often the final outcome for these pet owners.
Unfortunately these customers associate PETsMART with grief and emotional pain, not with great prices and a wide selection. The loss of goodwill has a monetary value.
We commend you on the PETsMART Charities' Adoption Centers program you have already instituted that exposes shelter animals to the public, and are delighted to have the information from corporate headquarters that "Petsmart and its employees founded and fund the largest single charitable trust in the world with the exclusive mission of ending the euthanasia of some wonderful animals." These are welcomed first steps. We are asking you to take the next step toward community leadership in the humane stewardship of animals.
Live pets are a loss leader. It is the accessories such as cages, toys, bedding and food that bring in the profits and ensure return visits and goodwill from your customers. Please be a trendsetter in the ethical treatment of live animals and stop selling them.
You will have the full and unequivocal support of the undersigned if you meet this challenge
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Petsmart Inc
19601 North 27th Avenue,
Phoenix, AZ 85027
(623) 580-6100
(623) 395-6502 (fax)
[email protected]
Nick Saint-Erne, DVM
Quality Assurance Manager
PETsMART, Inc.
[email protected]
Dear Dr. Nick Saint-Erne,
We the undersigned are requesting that PETsMART stop selling live animals. It has been made apparent by the death of yet another recently purchased pet (a PETsMART guinea pig) that it is impossible to ensure all PETsMART stores, their employees, and the suppliers that the stores purchase their stock from maintain the minimum acceptable standards of care required for animals in their care.
Too frequently, sick animals are being sold to the unsuspecting public. The policy of replacement, although reasonable with inanimate objects, does not work with living creatures. To return a sick animal for a replacement requires a detachment not likely to be found in someone, often a child, who already regards the ill pet as a member of their family.
No doubt PETsMART veterinarians are qualified to deal with dogs and cats, but do they have the special training and experience required to deal with exotics such as guinea pigs? In cases involving exotic animals this inexperience commonly results in delayed medical treatment and high costs for new owners when they finally turn to a vet trained to deal with their animal. Heartbreak is often the final outcome for these pet owners.
Unfortunately these customers associate PETsMART with grief and emotional pain, not with great prices and a wide selection. The loss of goodwill has a monetary value.
We commend you on the PETsMART Charities' Adoption Centers program you have already instituted that exposes shelter animals to the public, and are delighted to have the information from corporate headquarters that "Petsmart and its employees founded and fund the largest single charitable trust in the world with the exclusive mission of ending the euthanasia of some wonderful animals." These are welcomed first steps. We are asking you to take the next step toward community leadership in the humane stewardship of animals.
Live pets are a loss leader. It is the accessories such as cages, toys, bedding and food that bring in the profits and ensure return visits and goodwill from your customers. Please be a trendsetter in the ethical treatment of live animals and stop selling them.
You will have the full and unequivocal support of the undersigned if you meet this challenge
3153 Signatures
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John H. G
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- North Carolina
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Ginger L
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- Stop selling live animals. Be Smart.
- Location
- New York
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Sharyn M
- Location
- Urbana, Ohio
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Sandra M. C
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- animals should never be sold in pet stores for compulse buying
- Location
- Cameron, MO
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Bernice Apte P
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- TAKE A LOOK IN PERSON WHERE YOU ARE BUYING YOUR ANIMALS...EVEN YOU WILL BE SHOCKED
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- ENNIS, MONTANA
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Beverly D
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- Stop feeding misery
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- Gulf Breeze, Fl
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Stacey C
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- People need to realize that when they buy an animal, most likely it will or should be a long term relationship with that animal or any living creature. They should be prepared to give the animal food, shelter, loving companionship, care, vet visits - everything and anything the animal may need to enjoy its life with the owner. Animals are living beings and are not to be considered disposable commodities. Please think before you buy! http://members.home.net/mscsac/
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- Maryland
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LaDonna S
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- Stop the sale of live animals!
- Location
- DeSoto, TX
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Jacqulyn P
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- I have rarely seen animals for sale cared for properly. Please stop this barbaric practice.
- Location
- Mansfield, CT
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Lisa B
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
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Tanya K
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- Thank you for all that PETsMART does for the homeless dogs and cats out there through your Adoption Centers. What an ideal world it would be if every pet owner were responsible and no live animals - dogs, cats, guinea pigs, birds, or otherwise - were bred in mass quantity and sold like Barbie dolls to the general naive public. Wouldn't it be wonderful if a such a well-known and massive petstore chain such as PETsMART were to become the trendsetter and not support the mass breeding and sale of ANY live animal?
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- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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Danya D
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Debbie R
- Location
- Urbana, Ohio
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Marni H
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- OH
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Mary Anne V
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- With all the wonderful animals awaiting homes at shelters, why should people "buy" pets?
- Location
- Rochester, NY
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Gail H
- Location
- Minnesota
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Anna J
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- I believe you mean well. But this method of making profits is having some terrible repurcussions, so please find an alternative. There are many ways to transform a business into a profitable and ethical entity. Just look into them! This is a challenge all of us must face. Please have faith that it can be done. Don't be hard-hearted. You must have wanted to work with animals because originally because you care about them. I hope you will rekindle your compassion.
- Location
- Linden, NJ
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Jim S
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Kim D
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- Guttenberg, NJ USA
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Nicole
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Delia U
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Bonnie R
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- I know you do wonderful things for the dogs and cats,but all animals count.
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- Cleveland Ohio
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Brenda H
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- Pet stores just need to quit selling dogs & cats
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Lee H
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- Think of the animals caged all day-would you like it. They need to abandoned the pupply mills so the stores cannot sell poor quality dogs at high prices so to make a buck or two.
- Location
- Goshen, IN
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Eileen D
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Beth C
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- Have "adoption days" instead and help place the pets already out there who need homes. At the same time, you're helping to reduce the number of breeders, puppy mills, etc. that are contributing to the problem of pet overpopulation...
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- Virginia
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Stephanie L
- Location
- Virginia
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Colby L
- Location
- Virginia
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Debora B
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- Please discontinue your the sale of live animals. Instead, please put your efforts, as Petco has, toward the adoption of the many animals that need loving homes. It is the right thing to do, and I know that your adherence to such an ethical policy will win you new cusotmers who appreciate your efforts on behalf of needy animals. Further, those whom you assist in the adoption of animals (perhaps by allowing rescue organizations to show their animals in your stores) will need equipment for their new pets, which your stores can provide. It is worth remembering the words of Mahatma Gandhi: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Thank you.
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- New York City
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Suzie M
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- You can make profit, by being the only petsupply store that allows all rescue's to place their animals-how more humane that would be-how 21 century- how overdue, please stop the sale of sentient beings!
- Location
- Chesterfield VA
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Linda H
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Julie A
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- Pet stores should only sell pet supplies and not pets. So please don't sell cats and dogs.
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- California
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Patty H
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- Please Please stop. Enough already. Would you buy a pet from your store?
- Location
- Strongsville, OH
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Karen D
- Location
- California
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William John D
- Location
- New York City
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Emma De R
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Robyn D
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- i dont like the sound of the guinea pig cruelty and i am glad you are trying to help.
- Location
- guernsey
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Patty A
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- Animal shelters often get small animals such as guinea pigs and rabbits turned in. Perhaps Pets Smart might consider an adoption program for these animals too.
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Marjorie L
- Location
- Great Neck, New York
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CHRISTINE H
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Tracie M
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Suzette O
- Location
- Colorado
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Susan G
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- Animals should not be sold !
- Location
- New Jersey
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Judith Ellen E
- Location
- North AdamsMA01247-9400
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Greg H
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Chris Gordon N
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- Pets are not TOYS! Your customers don't think so! Please don't see them as inanimate goods to turn a profit- you only turn our stomachs when yo do so... If you can't insure perfect handling 100% of the time in EVERY location, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, then you are AGAINST ANIMALS and the ONE'S WHO LOVE THEM! Please do the RIGHT THING- find another way to make money. You're experts in the business- surely you can make a BETTER PROFIT ANOTHER WAY! Thank you!
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MARLENE S
- Location
- CALIFORNIA
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Jane H
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- You have done such a wonderful thing for the dogs and cats-now widen the circle to include all living creatures. Thank you.
- Location
- New York
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LEIRE ELOSEGI E
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