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Pet Food Center in Owensboro is a major disappointment and the assistant manager is the most ignorant of them all! I went in there to check out their selection of rat toys, which was pathetic, and since they didn't have anything I thought I'd go check out the animals they have. Anyway there was a group of older kids around the hamster cage which had a large amount of babies and the water bottle was so high only the mother could reach it! I There was a hamster that caught my eye right off...he was horrible looking...his fur had no shine and his eyes weren't bright like the rest..he was pretty much lifeless. Plus to make it worse there was a dead hamster in the same glass cage. We notified the assistant manager and she acted like she could care less! I have never seen someone act so uncaring or concerned. I picked up the little guy and took him up front to buy him so maybe I could get him healthy since they apparently didn't care. Neither her or the other girl staff member could give any insight on what might help him...all I got was she doesn't want to sell him because he is sick and there's a 3 day guarantee... I knew my chances on saving him were slim and told her I didn't plan on bringing him back IF he did die. We took him to PetSmart where they really were great and helpful and CONCERNED. The little hamster didn't want to eat, he could barely keep his eyes open and he gasped for every breath he took.. I tried my best but he passed away about 5 hours later. I contacted the general manager and he basically told me they took in some baby hamsters from a customer and he guesses they took them away from their mother to soon. It's sad if you're going to take animals from customers but you don't bother finding out if they are weaned or have any disease?! Learn to take care of your animals PFC and pay attention to them and maybe incidents like this can be avoided.
thank you for your response, it was rather amusing! Well first off when the store doesn't even know how old the babies are and if they ARE or ARE NOT still nursing then why take them? So yes, their care right there was LESS than mine. What I saw at the moment was good enough for me, You were not there, so why don't you stop running YOUR mouth? You don't even live here so doesn't that make you a hypocrite? You're also making accusations and assumptions. Well hopefully I don't run my mouth and put an innocent person on death row now now! Heh, you're a waste of my time you're just a ### who thinks you know everything. (Yep, I made another "assumption and accusation!")
Okay we get your points, you don't care about what anyone is saying. This is just turning into such childish ###. Goodluck with flying hope everything works out for you. I'm just tired of everyone arguing. Can we all just take it easy?
Thank you Brandon, kristi, Pam, my husband, and slynn I appreciate it! I wanna thank everyone for your support and concern it means so much! There will always be people out there who's opinions we don't believe in but if we chose to ignore them then eventually they will get the hint we don't care and maybe they'll take a hike ;) thank you again everyone!
Lmao ain't that the truth slynn! Oh yeah btw Pam looks like stealth isn't you're long lost ### dad since it announced it's a woman! Lmao you crack me up!
Go right on I double dare ya! Haha!
Thank you slynn for your comments and for understanding my point. Like I said before, everyone is entitled to their own opinion but sometimes ### goes to far and everyone starts arguing here and there. I just want everyone to agree to disagree lol and maybe things can chill out.
Crap I thought my post posted back to ya slynn! Lol sometimes my phone doesn't let it go through. But I wanted to say thank you bunches and you take care too! :)
:) you're welcome! My dogs and rats are doing great too! Yay I'm excited to hear what the store has to say.. Again! Lmao geez I'm so worried.
You're awesome too slynn! Thanks again for your support!
I agree princi! Thank you!
Lol I know right! I really hope I get a call from the general manager again to see if he changes his story! I had to leave him 3 messages before he would freakin return my call! Hell I would love to see the look on the employees faces when they see what's going on!
slynn it feels like a Jerry springer shows going on! Anyways, what are your kittens names?
Aw they sound so adorable! I would love to own a cat but I'm pretty sure as of now that would be a disaster lol. My rats names are skeezy and jacho. Skeezy is tan and white and jacho is grey and white. I've trained them to so a couple of tricks, they are a lot of fun! As for my doggies there's Buddy aka booty who is a dachshund, Tyson who's a min-pin and dachshund mix, Jody aka bobo who's a yorkie chihuahua mix and cayden aka fuzzy who's a Pomeranian :) gotta love our animals!
My weekend has been busy I've been helping out both my grandmas and my mom and it was hectic but worth every minute. Hope your weekend was great too :) don't worry about anyone else who posts unless it's something positive, all this negativity really sucks lol.
Sounds like a great weekend! I'm glad you had some fun with your boys! ### I know this economy does suck! Blah I feel like I'm starting to get sick there's a bug going on around here and with my luck I caught it. I'd write some more but I gotta go lay down :(
Damn I missed a lot since I was sick lol. I'm glad you and Brenda made truce lol and I agree too that Brenda does have good advice. But I also have to say, even though I and sp don't agree, that on some posts I read she made sense. All I know is from what I seen in the store for that half hour I was there and the stupid staff that totally kept blowing me off just disturbed me so much I had to vent somehow. I still cry knowing I couldn't save him, I guess that makes me a wimpy ### cry baby but I guess I'm just more sensitive than normal lol. I didn't write thus complaint on here until after I spoke with the general manager and his explanations were all over the place. He thought it was kinda funny, I did not and that really pisses me off. Especially when he told me that the store had electrolytes (spellings off sorry lol) in the back and the assistant manager knew this and he didn't know why she didn't offer to use them. I dunno maybe she forgot. anyways I'm most likely going to sit back and only reply back to positive comments lol cause I don't want stuff to turn out like an episode of Jerry springer. But I do respect Antibes opinion and I wanna thank everyone for sharing your thoughts on this matter. Thanks so much slynn you rock too :) and thanks Brenda I appreciate what you said. I really hope this post makes sense I'm still groggy from this medicine and I might ramble to much :x
Oh and those pics were taken of the same hamster after I bought him
How bout jello wrestling lol. What toppings ya want on the pizza lol
I didn't mean to make anyone mad at me or bored I'm sorry if that happened.
Alrighty anchovies it is lol
Awesome we got jello wrestling and anchovie pizza!
Ditto lol
Yikes! That sucks! Death by mud isn't the way I wanna go lol
Ah that's horrible! Sounds like my luck, freaking sink hole!
Haha lmao i loved it sp that was great! Thanks for posting it!
Lmao slynn that's so cute and funny too! My lil doggies have their individual quirks lol like bobo will constantly chew his freaking ### it's so gross! I have suggested we get him a cone lol. Tyson is blind so he really doesn't do much but run into things which makes me feel so horrible! Cayden and buddy will find any trash anywhere and drag it around and rip it to shreds! When I had momma cat she was like your cat too nothing but one thing would keep her interested lol. Animals have a mind of their own! :)
Thank you lily!
Ha WRONG
Blah blah blah you're a ###ing idiot
What's ###ing sick is that's the shape he was in at the store. But I shouldn't have called you an idiot I'm sorry about that, you were just saying what your observation was and that's fine that's what you think. I wasn't very mature for saying that I'm just tired and had a bad night. Sorry again.
LOL it's all good :) oh I was wondering how the weather feels where you live? It's starting to get soo freaking cold and it totally happened over freaking night LOL I wasn't prepared I still have my long sleeved shirts in my space bags!
I would love if the weather stayed in the upper 70s all summer yeah right though lol. It's funny cause when it's winter and freezing your wishing summer would come.. Then when summer gets here and it's blazing hot you wish for winter! LOL
Not mud wrestling, I saw a girl that died in a mud wrestling match... Jello sounds better.
I agree! It was some girls that wanted to get into a sorority. There "hell week", was done by a drill Sergent' daughter. She made the girls dig a mud wrestling hole, and come to find out it had a sink hole in it. It looked like a horrible way to die! So jello sounds good to me! : )
I don't want to libel here, but I think Stealth got fat on welfare cheese (physically and mentally) and then rolled over 7 or 8 of the illegitimate kids she had as she let them sleep in the same bed as herself. Fortunately for SPilot these are usually just written off as SIDS, but I think Stealth really does feel the guilt and feels all the eyeballs on here when she is shopping on her Little Rascal or playing bingo (or god forbid holding me up at the gas station while she actually scratches off the lottery tickets at the counter while I stand waiting behind her to buy a gallon of milk). These times are rare though because she has taken up the uniquely specific cause of crusading against those "who makes accusations based on one visit to a store or one interaction with a person and goes online and posts character complaints about them." So maybe I'm wrong, but "I can smell BS from 20 paces (courtesy of the lexicon of SP)" . I just wanted to see how it felt to write one of her ridiculous phrases down and I actually had a good laugh. Considering the number of posts she has authored I recommend it to everybody. She'll probably threaten plagiarism litigation, but thankfully that is not criminal conduct nor is even close to what plagiarism is, but she has a little Johnny Cochran in her so don't get nervous when she starts to flex her muscle. Don't have much time just wanted to libel SP, but as a result I know have to hide from the process servers so I'm going underground. Peace and Love Peace and Love.
Ya, the drill Sergent's daughter was a real ###. She mud wrestled with one of the wanna be sorority sisters, after the girl took a swing at her for all the abuse the girl was forced to endure. That turned into an all out mud wrestling contest, in which girls clothes were removed... Finally the drill Sergent had the poor wanna be head in the mud, and the other pledges, pulled the poor girl out. Than the drill Sergent's daughter, aka the tormentor, was
prancing around in the mud yelling she was the winner, and nobody better mess with her! She went into the middle of the mud hole, and ended up sinking into a sink hole! That just seems like a horrible way to die! I wouldn't even wish that on SP! LOL! Just joking SP! Trying to lighten things up! : )
LOL SP that is funny! : )
You cannot be that bad, SP to have such a funny sense of humor! : ) Thanks I needed a good laugh! : )
TD6,
I told you about my kitties... So, I reading a book, finished it and went into the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth. No matter what kitties toys we get our cats, they soon loose interest in the toys. So, I must have accidentally left the drawer in the bathroom a little open with the Q-tips in them. So, my "kitties" some how manged to get about twelve of the Q-Tips out of the drawer and onto the floor. Out of all the things kitties can play with what is up with Q-Tips? None of them loose interest in Q-Tips! I find them all over the place. If I put them in the trash, they find them and fish them out!? It is the funniest thing, and all of them love them!
Even toys with catnip in them don't interest them.. But give the group of them a Q-Tip and their entertained for hours! I go through Q-Tips like you wouldn't believe.. Oh, and the other thing that they love is the toilet paper! (I think it is RJ, the trouble making one!) Nothing like going into the bathroom and finding toilet paper shredding into small unusable pieces. I guess you cannot tell a cat you cannot do that because we are in a recession!
LOL! Do your dogs have things that interest them like my cats?! LOL!
TD6,
My cats, once in a while get in the trash... They seem to love chicken, and since I make a lot of it, there are times they will get into the trash.. (Or should I say RJ!) RJ is funny, we named him after "Over The Hedge", after the raccoon, that always was would get himself, and everyone else in trouble! RJ, thinks he can just help himself to dinner! At least that is a way I can get the kids and my boyfriend to the dinner table! God forbid, they are off their computers, or Xbox for a half an hour to eat their dinner! If they don't hurry RJ will enjoy their dinner for them! That is awesome that you have a blind dog! Your a really special person to do that... : )
Brenda,
Thank you for accepting my apology, that was very gracious of you. Thanks for the fight that got my mind of my troubles this week. I appreciate it! Glad to bring a end to our disagreement though.
SP- That was funny! I enjoyed reading it, and could not stop laughing! I am glad you have a sense of humor, we all do, to get through life in one piece, and to be able to laugh at ourselves. Thanks for sharing that side of yourself. It is a nice side of you!
LF- My kids love the WWE wrestling, and many times they will have very hot chicks wrestling and cat fighting! You should check it out! : ) LOL!
I'm a dog trainer in North Wales Police I do it in my spear time as a voluntear, I am also in collge Llangrillo. I work in Theatre Colwyn during the weekend. So in other words. I work alot around animals, I have a german shepard named Tara, she's lovely if a bit odd in the head. I also have a rabit named Rodolf, a cat named Gizmo and finally I swear we also have a gremlin somehwere in my room (I call him Harry because I found him when reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows lol) My dog is perhaps the most kindest soul ever, when someone cries she instantly goes over to them and starts licking them on their land and if they don't stop she'll cry to. Poor thing. Rodolf likes carrots which is really helpfull rather then throwing the wasted carrots away. Gizmo likes rolling around on the carpet and if you sit still for too long he'll jump onto your lap and lol he's heavy. It gives me a dead leg. As for the gremlin...
He likes playing on my playstation2, I don't mind lol but he leaves my room a mess so I have to clean it lol. Good thing I'm neat:)
Pet stores that sell live animals for a profit are notorious for neglecting the animals. Sounds like this place is among them. thank you for trying to help this poor creature! :)
ummm... I just want to know why the original poster waited so long to take pictures of that dead hampster. That animal is not dying in those pictures it is DEAD. LONG DEAD considering that it's flat on one side and the limbs didn't move at all when it was flipped over in that last pic.
No, the fur doesn't lay flat like that and their bodies don't lock up stiff like that when they first die. They're quite limp and floppy. Takes a while for the rigor to set in. And for crying out loud where are it's ears? Did those fall off before you found the animal and took the pictures?
Sick
*falls in line behind Queen Brenda of the trolls* takes one to know one, aye?
And you're a model of maturity.
TD6,
She is just trying to get a rise out of you. I totally believe what you say! Don't apologize, you have nothing to apologize for!
Hot as Hades in Southern California! I have only wear shorts and t shirts here. We are having an Indian Summer. I still have to get my youngest kids some jeans, he grew out of all his. I got his jacket taken care of... But how it has been here he might not need it!
It makes me sad the immaturity of some of these posts. The hamsters welfare is of the utmost priority, that is all that should matter to the pet shop. This is clarified in their license. Arguing over whose fault it was does not matter, once the hamster was discovered the staff should have done everything in their power to decrease suffering, even if that meant euthanising. Well done TD6 for trying to help the hamster, I know personally how heart breaking it is when an animal you try and save dies anyway. Even if the hamster was born sick and was going to die anyway, as certain users have stated, the pet shop should have done regular health checks (anyone in this business is taught that - I know this from personal experience). and the hamster should have been dealt with, and not left on display. Judging by the photos the hamster did not become suddenly ill, and it is the responsibility of the pet shop employees to notice these things. It not only fails animal welfare laws, but trading standards laws, for after all, they are a business. Making excuses for such a business is a failing on humanities part. Certain businesses (hospitals, boarding kennels, pet shops, child care establishments) cannot have excuses made for them, as they are in charge of life, and by not being responsible they can cause suffering.