I think your mom and Kater are right. When the conditions are bad, it only encourages the store to keep on selling whatever it is. And too, you could have brought home a sick fish and contimated the others.....

I struggle with a store in Ann Arbor that is not nice to its baby bunnies. One of our volunteers went in several times and gave them such a hard time (I wish I had her nerve-they kicked her out once) we did end up getting the 4 babies. But I'm afraid they just bring more in and then I don't know what we'll do.