Sunday, December 21, 2008

Inhumane

Pea's here and she hasn't been around much this trip, dragged ourselves down to The Curve for the afternoon.

Since we're there, dropped by Pet Safari in Ikano Power House. The visit left us horrified and it was one of the rare occasions that I left the store empty handed.
Shortly existing the exotic pets section, we chanced by tanks of supposedly 'cute' hamsters and chinchillas. Upon closer observation, a lot of them were disfigured. Loads of them had eye infection and some so bad that part of their face has rot.
Each of the tanks contained easily 30 hammies (could even be more) and there's one drinking bowl in each individual closure. There were dead hamster in one of the bowl, and a dead foetus in the other two, the discovery left us speechless.

At this point one loud mouth dark-skin gal hopped passed screaming ,'The hamsters are sooooooooo cute, so cute. The hamsters are soooooo cute!' I turned round and replied,'Gal, have you not opened your eyes and look? The poor hamsters are drinking from a bowl with their dead siblings in it. Have you not looked? The hamsters' face were rotting?' No, she's too pre-occupied to even hear me.

There were signs in the store saying photo-taking is prohibited, is that their way to stop letting people know how badly the animals are treated? Just because the hamsters are one of the cheapest 'merchandise' they've displayed doesn't give them the excuse to abuse nor neglect them.

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