[Gpdd] [CARE] Re: PetSmart stores selling small animals

[Janna Willard]

No, I think that specific stores only sell females and other specific
stores only sell males. PetSmart doesn't tend to house more than one guinea
pig per aquarium, though, so I'm not sure why they have that rule. It's not
like Petland, where they put a bunch the same sex in one large enclosure
and a bunch the other sex in another large enclosure.

I can ask more questions next time I'm in PetSmart if people are curious.
Maybe there's a policy somewhere about it on their web site or something,
though?

-Janna

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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 21:28, Sandra Oliver-Poore
<warmbreath at comcast.net>wrote:

> PetSmart sells only females, that seem strange to me?  One, because if
> even one mistake is made an entire cage ends up pg. Two.  What happens to
> the males?  are they destroyed or sent to labs at the breeder level?  What
> happens to boss sows who keep order by mounting?   Actually any sow can do
> that periodically, are they thought to be male and disposed of or hopefully
> housed separately.   I could see pet mills keeping females for breeders but
> whence goes all our lovely boars?  It seems to me the safest thing is to is
> to train employees very well, if employees aren't trained to easily discern
> sexes mistakes can happen, and I wonder what happens to the mistakes?   I
> hate to sound so negative, but I just don’t like the sound of this.
> I cant get to a PetSmart or I would look into it, I would think an
> in-person visit would yield better answers than a phone call.
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