This story is disturbing, so be forewarned.
A Petland employee in Akron, Ohio, has been let go from her job at the nationwide pet store chain after allegedly drowning a pair of rabbits in a back room of the store, and then posting the pictures to her Facebook.

Elizabeth Carlisle is shown in the picture holding up two wet, dead rabbits with a big smile plastered on her face. Who took the picture? Her manager, of course. Carlisle wrote in her Facebook:
“[T]he manager took the pic for me. [S]he reminded me that there were people outside as [I] was swearing at them …read more

So the news just broke yesterday that after an 8-month investigation by the Humane Society it’s been found that PetLand pet stores use puppy mills to breed the dogs they sell while telling customers that they come from upstanding breeders.
I thought everyone knew this already? I first heard it years ago when I was going to buy rat supplies at one of their stores and a friend told me that she won’t buy anything there because their dogs and puppies come from mills. A little research online revealed that a lot of people knew this then, too. Just looking in …read more