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Scottish pet shops and garden centres
Maybe you would be interested in this:
A report has been published on an in-depth investigation of animal welfare problems in Scottish pet shops (which includes garden centres). Advocates for Animals, Scotland's leading animal protection organisation based in Edinburgh, commissioned this report to me in 2003. The main conclusions of the study are that the majority of the Scottish pet shops: * Kept animals that displayed abnormal behaviour (which suggests animal welfare problems) * Kept animals in enclosures/cages that were either too small or overcrowded * Gave inappropriate advice to customers * Seem to have breached the pet shop regulations Over 100 pet shops (more than a third of the pet shops in Scotland) were visited. As a result of the study, Advocates for Animals is launching the campaign LIVES OVER-THE-COUNTER, aimed at highlighting the plight of animals in pet shops, as well as lobbying for a radical reform of the relevant legislation. You can find information about the campaign, and the CAGED TO SELL report, at Advocates for Animals website (http://www.advocatesforanimals.org/petshops) Thanks Jordi Casamitjana Independent Animal Welfare Consultant & Investigator UK |
Scottish pet shops and garden centres
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Scottish pet shops and garden centres
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from martin contains these words: On 9 Dec 2003 01:36:24 -0800, (Jordi Casamitjana) wrote: Maybe you would be interested in this: A report has been published on an in-depth investigation of animal welfare problems in Scottish pet shops (which includes garden centres). Advocates for Animals, Scotland's leading animal protection organisation based in Edinburgh, commissioned this report to me in 2003. The main conclusions of the study are that the majority of the Scottish pet shops: * Kept animals that displayed abnormal behaviour (which suggests animal welfare problems) Dogs that begged, parrots that used four letter words? -- Martin Cats not trying to eat every fluffy thing in there? Lizards trying to get out of the tank? Fish eating flaked food? The list is ruddy endless. I think the word is PET not wild animal. |
Scottish pet shops and garden centres
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:59:47 GMT, Christopher Norton
wrote: The message from martin contains these words: On 9 Dec 2003 01:36:24 -0800, (Jordi Casamitjana) wrote: Maybe you would be interested in this: A report has been published on an in-depth investigation of animal welfare problems in Scottish pet shops (which includes garden centres). Advocates for Animals, Scotland's leading animal protection organisation based in Edinburgh, commissioned this report to me in 2003. The main conclusions of the study are that the majority of the Scottish pet shops: * Kept animals that displayed abnormal behaviour (which suggests animal welfare problems) Dogs that begged, parrots that used four letter words? -- Martin Cats not trying to eat every fluffy thing in there? Lizards trying to get out of the tank? Fish eating flaked food? The list is ruddy endless. I think the word is PET not wild animal. Cats sleeping on top of the heated glass tank that is the home of our three legged tortoise, snails having midnight feasts of the cats's food I must stop I hear the RSPCA breaking the front door down. -- Martin |
Scottish pet shops and garden centres
I'm so glad you seem to think it's funny!
Stereotypical behaviour in animals is something everyone complains about at circus and zoo level, yet in pet shops it seems perfectly okay. I'm not some animal rights nut, but I loathe the pet shop trade that is below standard. |
Scottish pet shops and garden centres
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:58:20 GMT, Hazell B
wrote: I'm so glad you seem to think it's funny! Funny? It's the guy, who wrote the report that's funny, it is blindingly obvious that a pet does not behave in the same way as an animal in the wild. Whose money did he waste? Stereotypical behaviour in animals is something everyone complains about at circus and zoo level, yet in pet shops it seems perfectly okay. Pets don't spend the whole of their lives in pet shops, we have never used violence on any of our pets, nor taken a shovel to unwelcome visitors to our garden. I'm not some animal rights nut, but I loathe the pet shop trade that is below standard. I'll go along with that. -- Martin |
Scottish pet shops and garden centres
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from Hazell B contains these words: I'm so glad you seem to think it's funny! Stereotypical behaviour in animals is something everyone complains about at circus and zoo level, yet in pet shops it seems perfectly okay. I'm not some animal rights nut, but I loathe the pet shop trade that is below standard. -- Hazell B I'm thinking of starting a lawn laying business and calling it Sodding Perfection ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk Hazel, there are plenty of scum pet shop owners who treat their animals with such disdain that they should be hung, drawn and quartered. This is cruelty at it`s very worst because its for profit. However, its sometimes difficult to see what behaviour changes there are because the animals are domesticated versions of the wild things. You`d never get to see a guinea pig let alone pet it in the wild unless it`s domesticated. Just have to accept whats domesticated behaviour and whats problematic behaviour. Thats not easy. |
Scottish pet shops and garden centres
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The message m from Hazell B contains these words: I'm so glad you seem to think it's funny! Stereotypical behaviour in animals is something everyone complains about at circus and zoo level, yet in pet shops it seems perfectly okay. I'm not some animal rights nut, but I loathe the pet shop trade that is below standard. -- Hazell B I'm thinking of starting a lawn laying business and calling it Sodding Perfection ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk Hazel, there are plenty of scum pet shop owners who treat their animals with such disdain that they should be hung, drawn and quartered. This is cruelty at it`s very worst because its for profit. However, its sometimes difficult to see what behaviour changes there are because the animals are domesticated versions of the wild things. You`d never get to see a guinea pig let alone pet it in the wild unless it`s domesticated. Just have to accept whats domesticated behaviour and whats problematic behaviour. Thats not easy. The 'abnormal behaviour' refered in the message is in fact behaviour that indicates animal welfare problems, as opose to behaviour you do not see in the wild. The most common example is stereotypic behaviour, like pacing up and down for ages, continuously twisting the neck in unusula ways, head bobbing, overgrooming untill the animal looses all its fur/feathers, and this sort of behaviour. In fact, it is relatively easy to tell this behaviour apart for what is 'normal', even for a domesticated animal, because it tends to gets worse overtime untill the animal cannot do anything else. Jordi |
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