I'm reading those articles about Petco. I'm going to take a closer look at the animals there, but I really haven't seen any problems. If there is a "freezer" where they kill the animals, I surely haven't seen it! And about the rodents who are left forever to die because of mites....I remember we had some gerbils with mites, and they were washing them with something to get rid of it. Sometimes I think PETA is a little ridiculous.