what happens?

[lute]

I heard some employees talking, she was hissing at one of the other employees because the other employee cared about the animals.

i got this all the time when i worked at the petstore in Nashville. they kept telling me that the dogs are products. if i wanted to "save the puppies" to go work at the humane society. i couldn't quit my job so i just had to male the pups time at the store as enjoyable as possible.

i'm not sure what other petstores do to the older unsold dogs. the one i worked at they lowered their prices. if the bigger breeds got too big for the cages they took them to the shelter. there was an Akita that i named Katie(after the PT pup because she looked just like her) she was never bought so she went to the humane society. i'm not sure what happend to her.

[cyber-sibes]

Around here they keep lowering the price till the dog sells. They charge $25 to drop a dog off to the humane society.

[Glacier]

Many of them are sold to research facilities or "bunchers"--people who buy dogs/cats ect cheap or from "free to a good home" ads and then sell them to labs for a profit.

[Toby's my baby]

I have no idea.

I went to a pet store in June in Phoenix, Arizona, and it was HORRIBLE. It was in a mall, and the prices were almost all above $1000. There were maybe two or three that were between $600-$999. They had two beautiful GSD's there, for $850 and I'd say they were about 9 months old.

[lute]

Many of them are sold to research facilities or "bunchers"--people who buy dogs/cats ect cheap or from "free to a good home" ads and then sell them to labs for a profit.

oh God! i'm getting sick just thinking about this!