why the heck were the animals even petable to begin with? petland is the one and only store in my entire area that does not keep the animals where people can pet them, if they are not kept in cages that have glass fronts(with the backs barred but in staff only areas) or they are in open cages that are in locked rooms, they require this to keep the animals safe, sick people walk into stores all the time, so they dont allow general public to so much as breath on the animals. Petland however has all the animals, even birds in open pens for everyone to pet and play with from what I hear, I wont set foot in that store. is this glassed in thing only normal over here? the concept of the hamsters even being within the kids reach seems foriegn to me.