URGENT: My Pet Shop Inspection!!!

[sami]

The treatment of animals is nothing to do with trading standards.

If they were selling beardies as super flying beardies then you'd need trading standards.

You need to contact the body that issued the pet shop it's licence.

Trading standards are not there to look out for animal welfare.

Mason

[Athravan]

The correct people to contact are the licensing department of the council for whatever region the shop is in. It is only these who can revoke the license which allows the shop to sell livestock.

They could additionally remove the ability for the shop to sell reptiles, and still allow them to sell other animals.

Trading standards cannot stop the shop from selling live animals or do anything about the condition of the animals, or remove them from the care of the shop.

[Rainwater]

oo rubbish. well i did tell them what was going on and they seemed to want to deal with it....or they would have directed me to the people who dealt with it?

[Stubby]

Stockport Metropoolitan Borough Council

Licensing Team
Environmental Health and Trading Standards
Stopford House
Piccadilly
Stockport
SK1 3XE
Daytime Tel. No. (0161) 474 4311
Fax. (0161) 474 4369
Email. licensing@stockport.gov.uk


From their website here: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council |Pet Shops


Pet Shop Licence

The Local Authority issues pet shop licences under the provisions of the Pet Animals Act 1951.

The licence can stipulate a number of conditions to secure the following objectives:

• that animals are kept in accommodation suitable in respect of size, temperature, lighting, ventilation and cleanliness
• that animals are adequately supplied with suitable food and drink and are visited at suitable intervals
• that animals are not sold at too early an age
• that all reasonable precautions are taken to prevent the spread of infectious diseases
• that appropriate steps will be taken in the event of an emergency
  
  The Health and Safety Team inspect pet shops for legal compliance. To contact them, use Related Contacts on the right.

For further information about pet shop licences, contact Licensing. To contact them, use Related Contacts on the right. To request a licence application form online, see Related Links on the right. To download the request for a licence application form, see Related Items on the right.

***Is that any use or are you talking about a shop in SW2? If you give me the name of the borough I can probably find the contact info you need to report it...one of (the only) advantages of being a librarian...and getting asked this kind of stuff on a regular basis...lol ***

[kennedykrew]

Are you gonna name and shame?

Originally Posted by anaconda8301

hi there it is appaling the state of some shop i have been in 2 in particular both in the warwickshire area. one had a viv 1.5ft square in there had a baby boa contrictor baby royal python 3 garters and 2 corns. in one viv on water bowl i wouldnt use for for a hatchling it was that small. 2nd shop i went in on one occation its a pritty big rep shop sum what 60-80 reps first time i went in there to buy a snake the shops smelt of urine and s h it (excuse my french. i was appaled buy the conditions of the vivs. i thought perhaps it was cleaning day. i went back a week later the mess was still the same i mean poo in the same places smells had got worse i decided to buy a few reptiles as many as i cud afford to get them out of those conditions to top it off when i went to the counter to my surprise i was told i cannot buy anything as the ONLY person in the shop was a 15 year old girl adn wasnt allowed to sell animals i wqen away and returned an hour and half later still she was the only person in the shop. i asked qusetions on the reptiles she was unable to help with anything from temp need to humdity. although when i asked to hold a reptile i was told no but this one is her favourite and showed me a skink by poking it with a stick untill it retailiated and tried to bite i reported this shop and no action was taken. this specific shop was in coventry i will not reveal the exact loacation for obvious reason but it is a wonder how these people get a licence to sell dog food let alone reptiles. it makes me so angry that conditions like this are allowed.

I think theres only one reptile shop in coventry that i know of and it has kids serving so must be them .
I would only go there in emergencies as they are way over priced on everything !!!

[jamie123]

good thing i havnt came across a rep/pet shop like this as i would just get really angry and probbaly end up destroying most of the shop with rage when i get angry im not one of those people who can keep it in

[mark666black]

Theres one near me that is just opening up, it was originally a furries pet shop, but she has just started to fill her stock with reptiles.....
So she's got in a tortoise in a normal enclosed viv - no UV
Leopard Gecko's in an empty viv no hide just calci sand - no UV
An adult rat snake who has been in there weeks with retained shed on its tail, witch has now gone black about an inch. I advised her weeks ago on what to do, and its still in the same state it was. It is in a viv with no heat mat or heating. All I can see it a normal unguarded lightbulb. It is also surrounded by small furries in cages.
And she's still filling the shop up, will be ALOT more reps in there aparently in a couple of weeks.....