im a pet care specialist at petsmart AMA

>>2282295
hey bro how hard is it to get a job there and do you get an employee discount? i would assume its like any other retail store, but do they ask about your pet owning experiences?

>>2282297
also where do you live and how much do you make

how many fish die there on a daily basis?

>>2282295
Didn't petsmart get fucked recently because their small animal supplier was charged for animal abuse? Who is supplying their small animals now?

>>2282297
>>2282298
It's a little bit harder to get a job in the pet are department than it is anywhere else in the store. So if you applied to be a cashier it's like applying for a job on cash at any other retail location.
But they will ask you about your previous pet experiences and what you've owned and cared for in the past and if you do have previous experience it definitely helps you out with getting the job.
I currently make $12.50/hr. You get paid a little but above minimum wage for working with animals. I live in Canada

>>2282304
you get payed above minimum wage, AND you get to work with the animals?
>choose all the sushi
captcha wants you to answer this guys question
>>2282302

>>2282302
Not as many as you would think. Mostly the large comets because we way too many of them in at a time and not enough people buy them. We've tried to cancel shipments of them a few times with no response

>>2282306
i hate it when the company sends you more shit than you can handle. i worked at a toys r us once where we had to fill up half the back room with pallets of shit because we werent selling anywhere near the thousands of toys we would get on a weekly basis. what kind of hours do you work, and how often do you clean the cages?

>>2282307
ive always though toys r us seemed like a fun job but I've heard horror stories.

I usually work 8 hour days from 7am - 3 pm. So I open the pet section of the store and tend to all the animals in the morning.
Pet enclosures are cleaned of weekly.
Monday: birds
Tuesday: small animals
Wednesday: Guinea pigs
Thursday and Friday: reptiles

And fish tanks are periodically scrubbed down throughout the week.
Betta water is changed every other day

>>2282303
Wish I could tell you. I don't know myself.
And I wouldn't be surprised that seems like something that would happen

>>2282312
do you get a full 40/week or are there other people they split those hours with?

>>2282295
Do you know where exactly your store gets their animals?

>>2282316
There's a few other people we split hours with. Depending on the day they'll have two of us on at once.

>>2282319
I think the fish come from Singapore and the reptiles usually somewhere in Asia depending on the actual reptile. Though some tree frogs and the beardies occasionally come from Australia. There are some breeders for things here in central Canada though. Like a lot of the small animals and birds.
But for the EXACT source of the animals I'm not sure

>>2282321
Also I'll answer questions all day. If I disappear for a bit don't worry I'll come back

>>2282324
do you get a discount on stuff in the store? if so, how much?

>>2282325
Of course! Though it's only 20%. Still better than nothing though

>>2282327
walmart only gives a 10% discount, 1/5 aint bad

>>2282329
But walmarts got them low low prices. Save money, live better

>>2282330
low prices means 10% is even less...

>>2282334
Shit.

>>2282295
Are you a lifer?

>>2282303
The suppliers are probably region dependent. I live in California and our small animal supplier has been the same for the last two years (Barney's). We also never really had any shortage, but my store isn't that busy.

>>2282312
When do you clean the back rooms?

>>2282319
Again, this is for a California store.
Our small pets and birds come from Barney's Pet and Feed (CA).
Most of the reptiles and amphibians come from Sandfire Reptiles (CA), but the more expensive snakes come from Reptile Industries, Inc. (FL).
The fish slips don't say anymore, but iirc they used to say they were from Florida and Singapore. I don't remember the company names.
The feeder insects are from BugCo (MN).

I was considering getting a job with the reptile stuff but I don't think they will beat $10 an hour (what i'm getting working at fast food) and have the same flexibility the place I work at does
I'd say I could walk in and get the job though

>>2282295
are reptiles treated badly in pet stores?

i got my bearded dragon from a pet supply plus and he still has a few problems

i did help him get a little better, and hes doing alright

>>2282672
pet supplies plus is by far the worst I've ever been in
I get crickets from there because they end up throwing in 200 when I buy 100 because they think they are icky and don't want to have to keep doing it

Did you stop selling rats like a lot of places here in the us?

So all of your pets come from byb right? Don't you feel bad working there? Charging $2000 for inbred puppies and such?

>>2282714
petsmart/petco don't sell dogs/cats at all.

>>2282314
>>2282480
I ask because I work at a shelter that communicates with PetSmarts and Petcos in the region. I had heard from the store managers that the supplier they all used got sued for animal abuse and had to cease shipment. So I was trying to speak to one of the regional managers about using the shelter stock in the time being if our staff took care of them, adopted them out and we would allocate space for them at the shelter and transport when needed. But they wouldn't even hear it out. We could have even supplied the food and cages to house them, and they would have sold much more small animal stuff.

Anyway my efforts were thwarted when the supplier came back up after the court case was settled, although the rumors are it now costs petsmart even more because the supplier jacked the prices to pay off the lawsuit and lawyers.

>>2282714
>Byb
They get them from mills that breed them in mass. It's much worse than BYB

>>2282480
Am I a lifer?

Back rooms get cleaned every Wednesday. That's when we do a real thorough clean. We spot clean and sweep up everyday.

>>2282672
At my store they're treated very well and I have occasionally refused to sell a reptile to a customer who I felt didn't have the right set up and supplies or wasn't willing to properly take care of it. This goes for small animals, birds and fish aswell. I personally, along with the other pet car specialist at the store, want to make sure the animals go the the right home. And are treated with a lot of care and comfort during their stay at the store. This is kind of a store specific thing though. Just because we work our asses off to make it best for the animals at my store doesn't mean other petsmarts do the same.

>>2282714
We didn't stop selling rats, no. We don't sell rats or mice as feeders though, if that's what you're wondering. And we don't sell dogs and never have.

>>2282726
We actually do sell cats at my location. They're from the local animal shelter. So they either come in as strays or they were born at the shelter. So sometimes we have kittens sometimes we have adult cats. They're given all their vaccinations and are spayed/neutered and then they send it off to us. Each cat comes with a form stating what vaccinations they've gotten, if they have any disabilities or diseases and the exact location the cat was found if it was a stray. So all the information is readily available to the customer so it's not like they're being cheated or anything like that

>>2282741
If it makes you feel any better my store would have heavily considered something like that. It's a wonderful gesture to make

>>2282654
There was a guy who used to work at my store Sundays only, as a hobby in addition to his main job as a graphics designer. Maybe you can ask for something like that.

>>2282672
Corporate kind of fucked us over with the reptile habitats (they're too tiny), but the employees at my store are really good with them. The beardies seem to come in with problems pretty frequently from the supplier. The animals get taken to the vet if they show any cause for concern, and the vet gives us prescriptions.
It's not fun mixing meal supplement and hand feeding a withering bearded dragon for three weeks to walk in on it dead one morning.

>>2282714
Afaik we stopped selling rats simply because they weren't popular.
The animals PetSmart sells come from "companies." All I know is the names on the packing slips, which I posted already.
I haven't even seen a pet store that actually sells dogs or cats in close to 8 years. That one only stayed open for a few months.
Every pet store I've seen only offer cats and dogs through adoption. PetSmart has everything in place to offer rabbits for adoption, too, but I don't know of any stores nearby that are partners with an adoption group that handles rabbits.

>>2282741
The only thing I've heard about with this was in regards to small animals. Do you have a hamster and guinea pig shelter where you live or something?

>>2282750
>Am I a lifer?
Where are you going to be 20 years from now and is the answer "Working as a pet care specialist at your friendly neighborhood PetSmart"?

>We actually do sell cats at my location. They're from the local animal shelter.
PetSmart doesn't *sell* cats, they adopt them out. The store doesn't make any money from the transfer of ownership. It's an important distinction.

Also what are prices like in Canada? For ie a guinea pig, conure, or a beardie?
Do you sell ferrets in your store?

>>2282750
>We didn't stop selling rats, no. We don't sell rats or mice as feeders though, if that's what you're wondering. And we don't sell dogs and never have.

I was also more asking about the reptiles, aren't they bred in terrible conditions with no regard to health at all? Working with local shelters to adopt out cats sounds nice, but the other small animals (rats, etc.) are bred in the worst possible conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNq6efSjIr0

This video might not be 100% correct, but the animals you are provided can't come from much better places. Or maybe it's different in Canada?

>>2282824
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNq6efSjIr0
>PETA sent eyew-
Dropped.
PETA talking about anything might as well be a two year old explaining how a combustion engine works.

>>2282809
The shelter takes in everything, mice, rats, gerbils, guinea pigs, birds, fish, if it's legal we take it in. It would have given them small animals when they had none, and although they wouldn't get the money from adoptions, they would sell 100% more tanks and cages for said animals than if they had none at all.

>>2282753
They made it seem like I was trying to fuck them out of money or something. But they may have been on edge about the whole lawsuit thing going public or leading to them.

>>2282870
So, do you think that PETA staged the whole warehouse full of animals to beat on camera? I would like to hear your reasoning behind this. PETA is dumb but not everything they say is bad, like spaying/neutering and keeping cats indoors.

>>2282887
Do you know that the mill in the video is supplying to PetSmart/Petco?
Do you even know for sure that the mill is in America?
"Look at this shitty breeder in some undisclosed part of the world" is a lot different from "The Video PetSmart Doesn't Want You to See! >AdCoices [X]".
PETA has lied so badly so many times that I automatically assume anything with their name on it is barely half the story.

>>2282303
the Petsmart where I live doesn't carry rats anymore because Petco lost a lawsuit cause some kid died from a bite from a Petco rat or something and the manager of the Petsmart said their supplier was dropping rats rather than risk a lawsuit.

I know someone who breeds parakeets and sells them to local pet stores. Is it common for your company to have arrangements like that?

>>2282995
I would guess that they're selling them to smaller pet stores and not places like petsmart.

>>2282908
So you are not adverse to the mill being a mill, but who the mill supplies to. Do you at least admit the mill in that video exists?

>>2283015
>So you are not adverse to the mill being a mill, but who the mill supplies to.
Isn't that the whole point? If suppliers for PetSmart and other stores aren't anything like that video, what relevance does it have to doing business with those stores?
Maybe I'm reading too far into this? If so, sorry.

>Do you at least admit the mill in that video exists?
Sure.

>>2283028
No, you could have been arguing that the place didn't exist at all, which was the stance I originally assumed you took before you explained your position. I'll agree there isn't hard evidence to show who the place sells for, but I would argue that the mill does exist.

>>2283030
Fair enough. I just don't consider the mill's existence sufficient to count as a mark against any particular pet store, or even pet stores in general.
Textile sweatshops are pretty awful, too, but that alone isn't a very good reason to, say, boycott Joann's.

>>2282824
When they show a spider morph Ball Python with it's head wobble and blame that on BYB you know the video has a heavy bias.

Does petsmart ever get any good sales? Petco has a $1 per gallon sale every year

>>2284296
Not op but Petsmart hopped on that deal I think a year or two ago. Petsmart really only has a lot of sales for cat/dog stuff (at least in my area.) I personally prefer Petco for sales than petsmart, I only ever go to petsmart for the oxbow kibble recently.

>>2284296
Damn when's the sale? Same day every year or is it random?

>>2284296
PetSmart has some rocking sales, but the good ones are usually only 1, 3, or 5 day sales, so it's hard to catch them just right unless you're on their email newsletter. For example: petsmart.com/fish/supplies/aquariums-and-stands/aquariums/marineland-75-gallon-aquarium-majesty-ensemble-5210724.html
I got a 125 gallon tank with glass canopies, lights, and a stand for $285 after a coupon.
PetSmart's $1/gal sale, the few times they've done it, wasn't great. It's only good for 10 gallons, 20 longs, and 40 breeders. Filters and kits (both aquarium and terrarium) go on sale half off every once in a while.
If you want dog and cat stuff go right before or after a holiday. All the holiday-themed stuff goes 30-75% off.

They used to have the best sales on fish I've seen ($1 tetras and livebearers, $3 cichlids), but they stopped doing those about two months ago for some reason.

>>2282305
Underrated post

>wait for that shit where they have a bunch of cats behind the glass
>tape goldfish to dog that isn't mine (both the goldfish and the dog)
>CAN U HELP ME WIT MY DOG
>no sir please fuck off sir thank you
>toss him in there
>cats flip shit trying to figure out what to do
>tape bag of dog treats to cat
>both try to get what each other has and create black hole
>petsmart leaves this dimension

By the way, I want to buy a rabbit what is the cost.

>>2284308
It's random. Sometimes it'll be posted on their website, but I've found it's easiest just to call.
FYI, after considering a stand, heater, filter, hood, etc. It usually ends up being cheaper to buy a tank/stand combo or a kit when they go on sale, depending on what you need. Also, Petco's sale is only for standard tanks 10-55 gallons, excluding 15 gallons.

>>2282302
Not op, but in our store, it varies. Besides comets, female guppies and mollies die more. The most death is Saturday's (day after fish delivery).

>>2282303
I think you might be talking about the southern region. Holmes got busted. We had a shortage of Guinea pigs for a while.

I will say this, PetSmart did NOT cut ties with Sun Pet, Ltd.

>>2282480
Cleaning schedules our different. At ours, back rooms are cleaned on Mondays since we get small animals on Tuesdays.

>>2282295

Why do you assholes throw animal food into the dumpster instead of giving it away?

>>2284725
it gets marked down from 10%-75% before it gets thrown out and the higher ups dont want a lawsuit for a dog dying because of spoiled food

>>2284742
I understand it, and can at least agree regarding expired food, but it annoys me that they throw away any food that's returned by customers, regardless of reason, or anything that get even a tiny hole in the bag.
Wish they'd donate it. Good samaritan laws would work in their favor, but I get that it's considered "too much trouble."

>>2284848
Could be poisoned. Some people are sick fucks. It's not worth the liability if something is wrong with the food.

Secretly at my old store when a bag we used or one that one of our shelters used busted a bit in store we would keep and use it. It simply isn't worth the risk with returned bags

>>2282295
Any customer horror stories? What animals do you keep personally?

>>2284859
Not OP but I have a bunch of stories from being a cashier and elsewhere in the store if you want?

>>2284873
Go ahead anyone is welcome op is welcome too

>>2284882
3 of the biggest stories that come to mind:

>lady comes to my register to check out
>make small talk by telling her her shih-tzu was cute
>grown ass woman proceeds to force me to close my register for 45 minutes so she can scream in my face about how the "t" in shih-tzu should be silent or else I'm calling her dog excrement
>bitch that's not how the Chinese language works but I need this job to last me until I finish undergrad
>"yes ma'am" "thank you for correcting me" and "I'm so sorry" until she finally gets tired and leaves

>some nasty bitch gets close to tell me something then coughs directly into my mouth when I go to answer her
>this bitch gave me mono
>I had to get IVs and shit

>I have long curly hair down to my butt
>people on occasion feel the need to pet me without permission or warning
>man decides he wants a particular colored dog bed that is up in the rafters
>go to climb the rafters
>while about 3 feet above ground he notices my hair
>mother fucker grabs my by my hair and pulls me down
>he and his wife start hugging and petting me while I am on the brink of having a panic attack from almost falling headfirst onto concrete
>"Oh your hair is so beautiful, so soft"
>YOU ALMOST KILLED ME

I have a dog and cat by the way. Both adopted through the store. Got the cat while I worked there because I fell in love with him over the year and a half he was there. I adopted the dog 2 years after I quit. I worked there for 3 years. Finish grad school in May with no student loans thanks to that job and my jew-like saving abilities

>>2284913
That sound horrible. Is pet care specialist like that? Ive thought about working at petsmart to save up and then go to college to become a vet but that sounds pretty bad maybe ill stay in my restaurant job

>>2284859
>little kids parents break and buys the shit an african dwarf frog after he begs for 20 minutes
>explicitly tell him its like a fish and to leave it in the aquarium and he cant touch it
>well thats another dead return in 3 days
>get call the next day halfway through shift
>sounds like a banshee wailing
>inbetween this girls screaming i get in an "are you ok?"
>its the little faggot kid from yesterday
>this boy soppingly tells me through tears and hyperventilation that he was playing with his frog and his guinea pig and the guinea pig ate the head off the frog
>asks if his guinea pig is gonna be ok tell him it should be fine but might throw up
>asks if the headless frog is ok
>im speechlessly holding back a laugh
>just kind of go ummm nooooo
>my frog is toast?
>yea man its gone
>can I get a refund?
>actually break a laugh and go what? he then repeats and I tell him no
>he starts cursing me out calling me a faggot and to go to hell
>hang up and laugh about it with my manager and co worker

Then theres other more generic shit like people trying to steal fish in coke bottles or the same people returning a dead fish for the 100th time and getting an exchange while treating me like im selling them defective fish (ill tell people straight up if a certain fish or group hasnt been doing well because fuck petsmart they pay me $8.00 an hour to do this shit im not lying because we get sent sick fish)

>>2284922
How do people even try to steal fish in a coke bottle?

>>2284922
At our store we would keep mental track of people who kept returning dead fish over and over and stopped selling to them after their second return unless they brought a water sample and bought what they needed. After one or two more returns we'd tell them to stop coming.

>>2284925
>be in back of store
>see customer through bird enclosure that acted as wall between behind petcare/sales floor
>notice he has hand inside tank
>has a coke bottle and is filling it up with water
>took a net from our cart as I walk out
>is trying to catch glofish with it
>runs when I come up behind him and just go "hey"
>>2284926
but anon
JUST
SAY
YES
my manager told us we couldnt refuse a sale unless it was someone buying small mammals for a snake
she even overrode me when some teenagers came in to buy 2 betta fish to have them fight and I told them to take a hike

>>2284725
We donate ours to animal rescues if it is "pennyed out". If it is out of date or torn when we get it, we trash it since it could be contaminated. If we accidentally rip bag trying to stick it, we give it to rescues.

As for customer returns, if the bag is unopened, we put it back on shelf. There are sick people who will poison dog food and bring it back, hoping we just tape it up and resale it.

>>2284959
JUST SAY YES

I hate this so fucking much. Customer finds $70 fish decor with a chip missing. Asks for discount. JUST SAY YES. I don't even ask a manager, I offer 15% off for damage. Mitherfucker goes to manager. Gets 35%. Manager begins to lecture me about JUST SAY YES.

>>2284913
Why do people think this shit is okay? Just because someone has long hair doesn't mean it's ok to touch!

>>2284296
On Black Friday, 120-150 gallon tanks and stands were $300. We occasionally do the $1/gallon sale. Hint hint: PETSMART PRICE MATCHES.

>>2284859
No customer horror stories off the top of my head, but before I started, apparently a girl bleached all the fish trying to get rid of a manager. Didn't work. Yanno, cameras and all that jazz.

>>2284920
I've never had trouble except for dumb customers making really stupid decisions for their pets, but maybe it's different for gals.

>>2285041
>Hint hint: PETSMART PRICE MATCHES
Like every other store, PetSmart get around it by purposefully not offering "identical product." Ie they're rebranded as a proprietary brand. Like how all of our Aqueon desktop aquariums were replaced with [shitty] Top Fin ones [and then recalled]. Even re: the $1/gal sale, PetSmart's a la carte tanks only come in three sizes, and they're normally Grreat Choice brand instead of Aqueon or Tetra like Petco's tanks.
Even if you do manage to find a good deal (Tetra SafeStart), iirc the actual price match policy only applies to in-store pricing on in stock items, so technically the manager could refuse unless you had a picture or receipt of the item from another store, which defeats the purpose.

>>2285219
When ours go on sale ($1/gal) it is the Aqueon.

I've gotten in trouble for not price matching an item because the customer simply said, "I get this for this price at Walmart". Apparently, in our store, that's enough of a reason to adjust the price.

>>2285277
Well yeah, but they only stock Aqueon tanks when they're price matching the $1/gal sale anyway. It would work out for you if PetSmart had some leftover tanks after the sale and Petco had Aqueon tanks and they went on sale again, but that's a pretty specific situation.

>I've gotten in trouble for not price matching an item because the customer simply said, "I get this for this price at Walmart".
That's the kind of thing that would depend on the manager. At my store we require a receipt or picture. We'll accept online prices from brick-and-mortar stores, but we technically don't have to.

Man I worked at Petsmart for 2 years and finally got out and back into vet tech work. I miss being able to stop the shitty misinformation that was just constant at that place and actually help people set up proper set ups for animals then just following the rules. Now I work with the aftermath of poorly taken care of animals.

>>2284959
My pet care managers gave more shits about the animals than the customers. It was really nice having them have our backs

I remembered more stories

>lady calls all distressed
>"I need your help but you can't call the police"
>Bitch got knotted by her great dane and couldn't get him out
>what do you want me to do about it?

>Couple comes in with golden retriever
>walks by a lady with a pomeranian
>retriever randomly walks over and rips the pomeranian to shreds in front of everybody
>only incident we ever had with dogs fighting in store

>old black lady goes to banfield with "sick" pit bull
>poor thing is 1-2 days away from death via starvation
>can barely stand, keeps tripping, skin stretched over bones
>"I noticed he was sick 2 days ago. Can you help him?"
>he obviously hasn't been fed in about 2 weeks
>have the bitch arrested

>man walks in holding plastic bag
>walks past me at register to banfield
>oh shit that bag is moving
>man puts the bag on the counter and tried to leave
>no sir
>bag is full of 2-3 day old kittens with their umbilical cords still attached
>"I just found them"
>call the police but since he says they aren't his they let him go
>all the shelters were full so my coworkers took them home and nursed them until they could be adopted out
>all got adopted

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>>2282295
Where do the rats come from? It's rat mills isn't it :[

>>2282295
I got a pair of rats from this store cause they were practically giving them away. They have the worst strand of myco I've ever seen. Never shopping here again famalamamam

>>2285898
Never buy pet store rats even if they don't come from mills

No respectable breeder would supply a pet store and the dumbasses that work there probably don't know shit about rats

>>2285354
>Bitch got knotted by her great dane and couldn't get him out

You mean the customer was having sex with her dog, or she was breeding him with her female dog and he was stuck in the other dog?

>>2286108
She was having sex with her dog

>>2284913
That first woman needs to be strangled. The second one needs to be sent to ISIS. The last couple are secret psychopaths with the corpses of dead kids in their basement if they pulled that kind of fuckery on you.

>>2285354
Knotted. Gods that's funny. Must have been painful as shit, though. Be patient, you dogwhore...

Is there an outdoor play area for the dogs in the daycare or do they just go inside? My local petsmart is in a plaza so I can't imagine there's a yard anywhere for them

>>2285354
>knotted
The fuck was she expecting? Isn't that like 80% of the reason to do it in the first place?

>>2286418
How the fuck did that conversation go?

>>2285219
My cat is on a prescription diet. They price matched it (about $10 less than tag price) from my old vet. I always keep my most recent receipt. Profit.

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>>2282295
>I live in Canada
Lol idk how relevant my question is anymore, but I ask this in every thread.

It seems like I can just walk in, shove shit in my purse, and walk out at literally every store. Will anyone ever chase me and take down my license plate or something? I'm not obvious and I've been lifting for years, I know the blinds spots, where the cameras are in each store, I rotate about 6 different pet stores so I'm not visiting the same one too often, at my favorite store I actually buy things sometimes and don't steal much there at all. I've left with anything from aquarium filters to countless deer and elk antlers. Not once have I gotten a bad vibe or a "security please scan the store", anything.

I love it obviously, but what's the lifting policy? Do they focus on it? Do they notice but are powerless? Talk to me OP.

Pic unrelated kind of.

>>2286474
Petsmart has a doggy daycare?

Not either of the PetSmart anons ITT but I work with shelters that PetSmart works with. The dog adoption center, they are supposed to poop in the play area or one of the isolation areas. If they don't, we have to get a manager to open up a side door and walk them out there. It's not a great place to walk them, so if they require pooping outside they need to go back to whence they came. I was told by the district manager this is because there is a fear of people poisoning and trying to kill dogs in outdoor areas, throwing litter and breaking glass in the area, which honestly I can easily see happening.

>>2287291
Oh maybe that's a canadian thing then. It's called PetsHotel at my local store and I think they do boarding there too.

So the dogs are expected to pee and poo inside? That seems not very productive, especially when people will eventually be adopting these dogs. Also seems like a lot of time and product wasted by cleaning after them all the time.

>>2287291
Some locations do, it depends on their size mostly

>>2282750
stupid questions i need to ask. i moved out of my parent's house earlier this year and i miss having cats. bachelor, single with two roommates, work full time and i'm not around very often. what if i want to adopt a cat? will the cat fucking hate me forever because i'm hardly around to give it attention?

there's also a lot of doors in this house. one on every single doorway, including the basement that only serve as barricades to accidentally lock my cat into a room. i'll just have two sets of food bowls and litter boxes.

my roommate already has a cat and dog but the dog is missing a leg and literally can't come downstairs, the cat literally won't come downstairs. i think they'll be fine having a new stranger around.

also how long do they sit in those cages? it's kind of sad.

>>2288382
My friend kept her kitten in the bathroom of her bachelor while she was working 8 hour days. I don't really agree with that but the cat is 3 now and seems very happy and absolutely adores her. The only problem is that when she would get home when he was younger, the cat had lots of pent up energy and needed to play for quite a long time. but honestly that's not surprising considering how young he was

>>2288382
If they don't get adopted in a month's time, they get switched out for another cat and go back to the foster's home, later they might be brought back on display. This happened to my cat several times. No one wanted a giant hulk of a black cat but he is my lovely boy

>>2287274
I don't think our store pays attention to lifting unless it's obvious (i.e. A lady walked out with 2 large Kong dog beds, manager got her plates and called police)

Our policy is to let theft happen, gather as much info and report it to management/loss prevention.

I think PetSmart is more focused on return fraud than actual theft. People always walk out with "nothing" because a lot of people are dropping dogs off for grooming, so nothing suspicious.

As far as I know, our store only has a camera at the front door, and camera in sump (put there after someone poured bleach in sump to kill all the fish).

From a lifters pov, it almost seems "too easy". But I'm just a pet care associate. Higher ups probably know something I don't.

>>2288926
Thanks for the answer tho

I work at pet food express and I have to say I'm impressed with how much we are actually trained in terms of pet nutrition, downside is we don't have pets for adoption besides cats, our location does host adoption drives on the weekends for dogs however.

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There's a mouse at my store that I find unbelieveably cute. She kind of looks like a chinchilla.
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>>2282334
Sure the discount is smaller but if the price is low enough you save more.
X product from Y store 10$ with 20% off is $8
X product from Walmart is 8$ with 10% off is $7.20
That said, fuck Walmart

>>2282295
>I've been active on this specific board for a long time now and has become the only board on the website I truly like.
150% chance of being an animal abuser right here.

So what's the policy for refunding the price difference on an item that goes on sale immediately after you buy it?
Eg. Someone buys a 10 gallon kit for $50, it goes on sale for $35 two days later, and they want a refund for the $15 difference.

>>2292042
How do you figure?

>>2284308
Petco is currently running a $1 per gallon sale, and it applies to 10, 20 long, 29, 40 breeder, 55, and 75 gallon tanks. The 75 is a new addition.

>>2282295
So how badly do you abuse the dogs when they won't co operate?

>>2282303
Not OP but I worked for Petland which is mostly a midwest pet chain afaik.

I assure you all the animals we purchase are shit quality. Buy low, sell high. We'd get a lot of fucked up animals when it comes to reptiles and small animals. If they were clearly fucked up/going to die, we'd euthanize them by putting them in the freezer.

As far as dogs go, they'd obviously get their puppies from mills which were "USDA licensed" but really means jackshit. Same reason why most of the the dogs sold have dumb names to denote "designer" mixed breeds presumably because they crammed different dogs to fuck in a cage.

>>2282302

I worked at Petland, not Petsmart, and we had fish die all the time. But afaik if you're buying the usual tropical fish like tetras then you're better off going with Petsmart because, to my knowledge, because a lot of their fish come from their own stocks/breeding facilities and generally survive longer. Also Petsmart is probably the cheapest place anyway. Can't say anything about the quality of the fish once they're at the store tho. Probably varies a lot depending on how knowledgeable the people are and how much they give a shit getting paid minimum wage.

>>2288926
That's how it is at pretty much any store. You expect x% of loss, so you build that into your operating overhead and set margins accordingly. Most "shrink" is caused by employees, anyway. It is usually a waste of time to go after petty larceny by customers because of the money involved. The police won't give you the time of day unless you can prove it is either: a significant amount or it is a serial offender. Plus, there is always the risk of someone getting hurt or killed, which is never worth it.

>>2292787
Wish they would include 15 gallons. What's the point of not including them?

>>2292887
>getting paid minimum wage
Did Petland pay you minimum wage? Petsmart pet care employees start at $1 above min at my store.

I've also literally never seen of a brick and mortar pet store that still sells puppies. Petland sounds like crap.

>>2293240
>getting paid minimum wage
actually I was paid like ~$0.75 less than minimum wage for the first 90 days because it legal to do that in my state.

I only worked there for like 4 months.

My impression is that unless you're a nation wide brick and mortar pet store, either selling live animals isn't profitable or ripe with abuse. Hence why a lot of the animals we sold we bought for cheap and had shit tier health.

fyi I worked for one of their flagship stores. A lot of us regularly drank and smoked weed on the job. Occasionally some of us did cocaine after work.

Otherwise I'm seeing a lot more pet stores now that are just sticking to selling supplies. It's probably a lot easier buying/selling dog and cat supplies than the other stuff.

I guess that my only gripe is that its hard to find the "specialty" things like aquarium and reptiles livestock and supplies. Luckily I have a reptile expo near where I live that happens regularly. But if I wanted aquarium things like reef fish or the more premium aquarium supplies I'd either have to go to a place like Petland (or my LFS) and pay out the a$$ or have to deal with online ordering.

>>2282304
>>2282327
I also work in the Petsmart pet department. I only make 8.75/hr with a 15% discount (and no discount on items that are on sale) though.

Worst part about working there (besides the customers) is probably the fish section. Petsmart deliberately misinforms customers on how to keep fish healthy and thriving in order for people to buy more/not get turned off because it's too much effort. Our ball pythons are also suffering from mites because corporate doesn't allow us to treat them. It's infuriating sometimes.

>>2294059
>no discount on items that are on sale
Really? That sucks. If I get the right manager, I can even get my discount on items that are on sale and marked down for damage. I got a Marine land 10 gallon kit for $17 once.

My store also has a bottle of Ivermextin to treat snake mites.

You can almost piece together a half-decent fish care guide if you and cherry pick through all the different corporate signage and booklets, but I agree it's largely crap.

Do you take care of cats? My cat had 5 dewormings with pyrantel but still vomits up huge roundworm pile. My vet did all bloodwork so not other issue and says time will help him gain weight. He has not gained weight since last deworm treatment and is 8 pounds but should weight 11 or 12. Hes so small and tiny I am worried he still has the worms but vet says pyrantel should kill them. Can petsmart give stronger dewormer than pyrantel? My cat wastes away after 5 doses but is indoor only and threw up large pile of confirmed roundworms recently. Why he is not getting better? I clean and bleach the litter box and clean whole house as well every 4 days. Doing everything for little buddy but he look miserable and sleeps all day now, How to kill the worms vet wont do anything more than pyrantel 2 weeks apart.

>>2294107
Does the cat have fleas? It could be getting reinfected from the fleas. I had to treat my cat and whole house before my cat's worms would go away.

I tried the wormer from Petsmart and it worked the first few times but stopped when the cat got infected by a stronger strain later. It took some strong 2 dose shit from my vet to finish them off for good. As your vet if they have any other brand of dewormer