MadamBelladonna
Well-Known Member
So one of my friends told me there was a pet shop just 2 minutes away from my house. I asked her to show me where so we went down to look. I asked her if they sold rats there and she told me yes, so, naturally, I had to look.
I wish I hadn't.
They had 3 different aquariums of rats: one with "5 week old" babies (they looked like 3 weeks, if that, no mother rat), one with medium sized rats, and adults.
The babies were all so lethargic that they barely reacted to me sticking my hand in the middle of the group and pulling one out.
In the medium rat tank, there was a rat that had a huge open sore on his leg. The pet store employees shrugged when I informed them of this. Their faces were covered in porphyrin.
The adult tank was the worst.
There were only 3 rats in this tank, all of them in a pile, sleeping. Two of them were on top of a third. When I put my hand in this tank, the two scattered, revealing the third rat. At first glance, he appeared to be asleep. On closer examination, I saw that his extremities were blue, and his belly swollen. He was dead.
I took him out and brought him to the counter and handed him to an employee. :redhot:
Never going back.
I wish I hadn't.
They had 3 different aquariums of rats: one with "5 week old" babies (they looked like 3 weeks, if that, no mother rat), one with medium sized rats, and adults.
The babies were all so lethargic that they barely reacted to me sticking my hand in the middle of the group and pulling one out.
In the medium rat tank, there was a rat that had a huge open sore on his leg. The pet store employees shrugged when I informed them of this. Their faces were covered in porphyrin.
The adult tank was the worst.
There were only 3 rats in this tank, all of them in a pile, sleeping. Two of them were on top of a third. When I put my hand in this tank, the two scattered, revealing the third rat. At first glance, he appeared to be asleep. On closer examination, I saw that his extremities were blue, and his belly swollen. He was dead.
I took him out and brought him to the counter and handed him to an employee. :redhot:
Never going back.