MegaEverything Stores: First fishes, now BIRDS!
Stupid Pet (grocery) Store
OHMYGOD, no.
The pet fish in Walmart idea was already stupid, leave it to the aquariums and petshops, and stick with the non-living or plant life stuff, urgh. This? Birds? A grocery store is selling birds?
The store in question is Meijers:
1: The trouble is, Meijer is a huge Wal-Mart style store with lots of departments and lots of branches. Their pet section is a few rows sandwiched between the Dairy case and the restrooms and the cookware. People could go in for a gallon of milk and come out with a cockatiel in a 14-inch cage (They don't sell any bigger cages.) It's obvious that the people there don't care at all about the animals, but I'm hoping that if I can at least make things a little more difficult for them, maybe they'll clean up their act or give it up as a bad job.
2: Yep, take five steps from the dairy case, stop before you hit the pots and pans, and voila, parakeets, cockatiels, and even small fuzzies like teddy bear hamsters.
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3: Ours has cockatiels, budgies, I think maybe finches, hamsters, guinea pigs, and too many fish in too few tanks, along with the obligatory dying bettas in spaces too small for them to even TWITCH in.
OHMYGOD, no.
The pet fish in Walmart idea was already stupid, leave it to the aquariums and petshops, and stick with the non-living or plant life stuff, urgh. This? Birds? A grocery store is selling birds?
The store in question is Meijers:
1: The trouble is, Meijer is a huge Wal-Mart style store with lots of departments and lots of branches. Their pet section is a few rows sandwiched between the Dairy case and the restrooms and the cookware. People could go in for a gallon of milk and come out with a cockatiel in a 14-inch cage (They don't sell any bigger cages.) It's obvious that the people there don't care at all about the animals, but I'm hoping that if I can at least make things a little more difficult for them, maybe they'll clean up their act or give it up as a bad job.
2: Yep, take five steps from the dairy case, stop before you hit the pots and pans, and voila, parakeets, cockatiels, and even small fuzzies like teddy bear hamsters.
...
3: Ours has cockatiels, budgies, I think maybe finches, hamsters, guinea pigs, and too many fish in too few tanks, along with the obligatory dying bettas in spaces too small for them to even TWITCH in.