Pet shop rant grrrr

[PETERAROBERTSON]

Neil you will find this is not the case...you cannot donate a species to way lay the 10..they did away with it and maybe they havent updated their site yet..there was a big article published on it...it is fact mate as i was quite heavily involved in it....interpratation is the bigggest prob with defra and citties...the animals first found in ireland with no paperwork were infact donated...they were all confiscated.....law changed to force out this so as they had more control about knowing where they were etc

[PETERAROBERTSON]

If it wasnt true i wouldnt have taken the time to write it....dont know anything about parrots...as i said it is with what i keep i was dealing with defra for the a10

[Dan27]

THIS is a small report from the local news paper here - apparently it's been taken down to Monkey World

[lotti]

To neil
there are good and bad in everything and some shops are brilliant as are breeders unfortunatly there are many people who only think money and it very sad to think that it's the innocent animals who suffer, I think this applies to shops or breeders, and those breeders who have the animals best interest at heart would agree that there should be some licencing laws put in place to try and deter the breeding of animals purely for money,it's a subject that I feel strongly about and wasn't tryin to get at you I just get very upset about animals welfare !

[Spikebrit]

Originally Posted by Dan27

THIS is a small report from the local news paper here - apparently it's been taken down to Monkey World

a good result I think. A little different from the story the guy 'brian' is trying to say on here.

I think brit05 did a great job.

Jay

[brittone05]

A different story indeed! Sorry to say this but I have seen mite ridden snakes, chams in vivs with wood bark substrate, beardies and uros kept together - all simple things that research would resolve easily. I know that Brian is a bloomin top notch parrot info source and nobody could take that from him as such but this primate issue was needless. Ho the bloomin heck do you get baby marms that young delivered "by mistake"??

Fanks Jay x

[Zoo-Man]

Originally Posted by carlycharlie

Do you mean the laws need making tighter or that the laws need to be policed better & dealt with accordingly...........one law that is commonly broken is the selling of unweaned animals (all animals not just exotics, although exotics being sold unweaned is probably worse as there is such limited info out there on their care) and yet it still happens both privately & in shops!!!

I digress a little..........

There is one breeder & seller that I recently had a run-in on this forum that sells unweaned animals!

[Zoo-Man]

I got a PM from Wigan asking if I had any hand-reared baby marmosets for sale or if I knew of where they could get one!

[Daveyboy]

Originally Posted by wigan

firstly the guy in question is not thick he had the animal in a cage that he was told to put it in by a RSPCA sanctioned vet who is a PRIMATE SPECIALIST secondly it was a bird cage and not a hamster cage as stated this can be proved by contacting the relevant authorities that visited him and thirdly the food was brought in by a english company who distribute in this country but buy from america called RAVENSDEN last and foremost the guy and his son both have attained qualifications in animal care the guy himself also advising and worked along side DEFRA to introduce a safe practise when bird flu first broke out but brittone 05 can i say that i am glad you no longer live in moreton because all you do is slag the place and people off by the way after his shop was RAIDED he co operated fully with all the relevant bodies and it was found that he had done nothing wrong as stated before please read carefully as i believe he is monotoring all things reported and will take the necessary action if he feels he is being victimised.

I think the guy in question your referring to is yourself Brian, owner of the sed pet shop.

The stories dont add up, 1st it was delivered by mistake by a supplier, well the only supplier to pet shops that sells marms deliveries by there own van and checks and double checks everything off, so a mistake of that magnitude is unlikely.
then the story changes to it was only in for feeding, if this was the case would it be right at the front on the counter with a price tag on?? or wuld sensible people put it in the back room nice and quiet???

this isnt the first time the person in question has broken the licencing agreement. this is the kind of thing that gives the rest of shops a bad name.......

[miss_ferret]

Originally Posted by Zoo-Man

I got a PM from Wigan asking if I had any hand-reared baby marmosets for sale or if I knew of where they could get one!

personally id offer to deliver one and present him with a beanie baby (sure my cousins got a monkey one somewhere.....) in a fish tank. then claim it was a delivery error. and charge him £1000 for it. but thats just me