Dogs in those little glass cages?
I do, and i don't want them to do that.
Whats your opinion?
2007-11-29 05:25:59 · 33 answers · asked by Joey 1 in Pets ➔ Dogs
I agree 100%. Something should be done to more comfortably accomidate the animals in pet stores.
2007-11-29 05:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Look at that puppy in the little glass cage in the pet store. Then look at this picture:
http://prisonersofgreed.org/Images/Snider.jpg
That's where that puppy came from. Crammed in a cage with six other puppies, very little food and water, virtually no healthcare and without the chance to ever come out and run on grass or have room to play.
That picture is of a puppy mill. Puppy mills are basically "dog farms" that treat dogs as a factory good - they work their female dogs to the point of cruelty forcing them to produce more and more pups, pups of low quality that are eventually tortured just like the ones in that picture. Then, these puppies are sent to pet stores.
Almost all puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills, but the pet stores will never admit it. By buying puppies from pet stores, you are indirectly paying money to puppy mills and supporting what they do. When you buy a puppy from a pet store, you contribute to a heartless underground industry that forces dogs to spend their entire lives in cages constantly breeding for profit.
Get your dogs only from animal shelters or RESPONSIBLE breeders.
In response: That puppy is probably thrilled to be placed in a glass cage that he can move half a foot in. He is thrilled to be able to drink from a bowl instead of a tiny water bottle (like the ones you find on rabbit cages). In other words, it's not cruel for petstores to keep them in there - it's cruel that pet stores sell puppies at all.
2007-11-29 05:37:36 · answer #2 · answered by ninjaaa! 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I've learned to look at situations like that in a "bigger" way. Basically, if we're talking about a petsmart where the Homeless pet folks bring animals so people will adopt them - then, I say it's what we do for a short time in order to give the animals a better life in someone's home later.
If it's just a for-profit pet store and the animal was actually breeded to sell and live in this glass cage until they sold (if they sold) then, no. I have a problem with that.
2007-11-29 05:31:02 · answer #3 · answered by Michele M 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
If they kept the puppies/ kittens in a boxed crate or cage, as opposed to the glass (that allows people to see them)
How would they get adopted.
Alot of pets are breezed over just based on presentation. It's
not the best of methods, but, when you think, how adorable,
the puppy looked in the window, I can understand why it's done.
Still, I rather be able to SEE an animal and how it acts/relates
to other animals before, I buy one.
2007-11-29 05:36:31 · answer #4 · answered by lashawn0676 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, the sizes of those pet store dog cages are often atrocious! They do it so people will feel bad for the doggies in their tiny little cages and be more likely to buy them. Down with puppymills and petshops that sale animals!
You know what I actually feel worse for though? Pet snakes...they are often kept in cages that aren't even big enough for them to uncoil their whole bodies in. Can you imagine how uncomfotable spending most of your life bent in half several times would be?
2007-11-29 06:09:10 · answer #5 · answered by ..... 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its cruel. but whats even more cruel is pet stores get these dogs from puppy mills and taken from their moms way to young at around 5 weeks old. pet stores have NO bussiness at all to sell puppies. They dont know the first thing and sell to the first person with money. Pet stores need to STOP selling puppies.
2007-11-29 05:45:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They don't want to keep the dogs, they want to sell them. To make a profit they try to have as many animals in as little space as possible.
Find out what the local laws are regarding pet stores, see if the stores are obeying those laws, and write to your elected officials if you think the laws should be changed.
2007-11-29 05:52:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Pet Stores shouldn't be allowed to sell animals period. The conditions are terrible, serious health issues abound and the origins of the animals are questionable. Buying an animal from a pet store is lunacy with the exception of fish and stores that specialize in reptiles/amphibians. Even those specialty stores are iffy.
2007-11-29 05:41:41 · answer #8 · answered by Scelestus Unus 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Considering where the puppies come from in the first place (most of them are from puppy mills), being in a glass cage is probably the BEST experience they've had in their entire lives. Much better than their parents, who probably lived in little tiny wire cages with hardly any room to turn around.
Yet another reason not to buy a dog from a store.
2007-11-29 05:28:56 · answer #9 · answered by Nandina (Bunny Slipper Goddess) 7 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Even more cruel is where those puppies come from.
Their parents live on puppy mills, basically commercial puppy farms. They live in small cages their whole lives and are bred until they die, with no breaks. They don't get to interact with people, get chew toys, go for walks or no love. Its just a cage their whole life
http://stoppuppymills.org/
PLEASE watch this video
http://stoppuppymills.org/inside_a_puppy_mill.html
2007-11-29 05:34:08 · answer #10 · answered by kittenslayer 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Anything with a pulse should not have to sit in a glass enclosure to be purchased. How incredibly asinine to compare shelters with pet stores. Like one responder said, google puppy mills, you'll get it......
2007-11-29 05:39:19 · answer #11 · answered by mowsermae 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋