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Over 700 animals seized from illegal "pet shop"

That's just nuts....poor babies!! I know it's probably being to hopeful but it would be nice to see every one of them find a loving home.
 
ravendance said:
That's just nuts....poor babies!! I know it's probably being to hopeful but it would be nice to see every one of them find a loving home.
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I'm not sure where they'll end up. The article said animal control was contacting "neighboring agencies" for help. I don't know of any small animal or reptile rescues in the area.
 
It might well have been substandard. BUT - they mentioned "several hundred mice". It could have easily been 600 - 700 mice (including litters of babies), which is not many rodents. It may be that there were no more reptiles than many of us have, or have had in the past. I have seen articles (and rescues or law enforcement) do that in order to inflate the sensationalism of how it sounds to readers. It also said there were 78 dead mice. I have seen articles count rodents in the freezer as "dead animals" to make the situation sound as bad as possible. Unfortunately, such misleading reporting has made me suspect everything I read as being mostly untrue, especially if it involves exotic animals.
 
Heck, I had racks to hold the baby snakes when they were hatching that held 640 of them in a 2 ft square floor space. In the rodent building, which was only 12 ft x 20 ft, there were THOUSANDS of mice in there.

Yeah, just more forced sensationalism from the media..... :rolleyes:
 
kathylove said:
It might well have been substandard. BUT - they mentioned "several hundred mice". It could have easily been 600 - 700 mice (including litters of babies), which is not many rodents. It may be that there were no more reptiles than many of us have, or have had in the past. I have seen articles (and rescues or law enforcement) do that in order to inflate the sensationalism of how it sounds to readers. It also said there were 78 dead mice. I have seen articles count rodents in the freezer as "dead animals" to make the situation sound as bad as possible. Unfortunately, such misleading reporting has made me suspect everything I read as being mostly untrue, especially if it involves exotic animals.
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Rich Z said:
Heck, I had racks to hold the baby snakes when they were hatching that held 640 of them in a 2 ft square floor space. In the rodent building, which was only 12 ft x 20 ft, there were THOUSANDS of mice in there.

Yeah, just more forced sensationalism from the media..... :rolleyes:
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I agree with Kathy and Rich on this one. I have grown very skeptical of the media and entities of control.
 
Looks like they finally updated the article with some facts. I'm sure they already got the reaction they wanted from the general public. Before it just said 700 with 79 dead.
 
Well, Kathy and Rich already said what I was going to after watching the video. Having a friend that went through a similar "raid," I have become very skeptical of news reports like this. In his case, the paper reported his freezer "was full of hundreds of dead animals," all of which were feeder rodents and a couple of things for scenting.
 
Yeah it makes me wonder too, the reptiles all looked good, and the caging they showed the mice in is just normal breeder racks... Sooo....


On the other hand, I can imagine this taking place at our crappy local pet store.


Make me wonder why, if you have a freezer full of mice, they get counted as dead animals on the property, but no one ever cares about the parts of several dozen animals in our freezers on a day to day basis.
 
What got my attention was the description of the smell of the place. Some people can't stand the smell of rodents, even if they are well-kept.
 
Most people! When I have even a small mouse colony in my store (I do every year around this time to have live pinks for stubborn feeders), I get complaints about the smell. And I have no more than six adults, change their bedding every other day, and they are in another ROOM! Get a few hundred in a colony, and people's eyes start to water. I'd love for them to go into a rodent breeding facility some time.
 
While I was going to school to get licensed as a vet tech, we had a class on lab animal medicine. Part of that class involved going to Stanford and touring their facilities. The majority of my classmates whined about the smell of the rodents, while ceduke and I were impressed at how very little it smelled considering they have THOUSANDS of rodents in the premises.
 
I live fairly close to where this happened and from what I understand it wasn't the fact that he had so many animals it was the fact that it was extremely dirty inside the building and the animals were being stored in filthy enclosures. I don't think the size of the space really had anything to do with why they were seized, the media was just trying to spin every angle they could to make it seem more dramatic. Also over 500 of the animals counted were mice being raised to be feeder animals. I'm not positive on whether or not there were any zoning laws violated in the building or not.
 
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