sooz22 Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 What is the pets at home adopt a pet scheme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claireo Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 What is the pets at home adopt a pet scheme? Older animals that they can no longer sell or make money from are given for adoption, free of charge but all they ask is that you give a donation to an animal charity. Can be any animal from small rodents like hamsters,rats etc to rabbits and birds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msbehavin Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 What is the pets at home adopt a pet scheme? They let the pets that haven't sold and have been in the shop for ages go free in exchange for a small donation to a pet charity. When I went in the first time they said all the birds were available and most of the small furrys. I went in again last week and there were a few hamsters and a lovely black rabbit who kept fighting with the others. Best to keep calling in just to see what they have available. They don't check where the pets are going though, like the RSPCA do so I hope the scheme is being run responsibly. This is the Heeley branch. I'm not sure if it applies to all the branches. Most of the staff had taken 2 or more pets and couldn't take any more. I just breathed a sigh of relief that I don't work there myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooz22 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 Hmmm.... Not quite sure what to make of that. At least they are not being euthanised but then a rescue could find a much better home.... but then they would take up rescue spaces other buns so badly need. The Pro's and cons are endless.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetviper Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Well Its just cost me £25 pound for my rep supplies Only joking before i get a barrage of hate pm's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainrescue Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Any idea which rescue they make the donation to? If someone goes in - could they recommend some comes to us? It must be very hard for the staff to just let pets go in that situation - especially if they have been in a while and maybe get attached to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooz22 Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 I was just thinking how ironic it is that the very places that have been endlessly filling up sanctuaries and rescues for years have actually become one themselves. Why is it that they suddenly cant rehome animals? Are people finally listening and adopting rather than buying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess22 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I was just thinking how ironic it is that the very places that have been endlessly filling up sanctuaries and rescues for years have actually become one themselves. Why is it that they suddenly cant rehome animals? Are people finally listening and adopting rather than buying? I would like to think so. Maybe all the bad press they have been getting recently has paid off and no-one is buying animals from there, or the sancturies/rescues are getting their word accross better than before? Hopefully they wont re-stock! but I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Older animals that they can no longer sell or make money from are given for adoption, free of charge but all they ask is that you give a donation to an animal charity. Can be any animal from small rodents like hamsters,rats etc to rabbits and birds. I wonder why they dont just stockk less animals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotti Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Scoop's hit it on the head - it's not that they aren't getting any custom... it's that because of how up and down the demand for pets is, they stock up to meet demand, and then the demand drops. So they are left with more... then nobody wants the older ones, they all want babies. Or, a few won't sell because people don't like what they see in their behaviour in the pens, or the kids want the cuter one, then they have to stock up because nobody wants that one as it's not as cute as the one the shop down the road has. Eventually these ones get older and even less appealing, so the way to make them more appealing is give them away so people don't even have to pay. Then the parents say 'you can have that one - it's free' and the animal's been rehomed. Whilst I think it's better to be rehomed than stuck in a rescue centre or euthanised... I wonder where most of these free Christmas presents will end up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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