Does This Make You Angry Too?!

[KaitlinH]

We were in pets at home buying hay for our piggies the other day when there was a family asking when the next lot of guinea pigs were going to be available to buy as the others In there were a pretty decent size and they needed a piggie as young as possible to bond with their other one. That's perfectly fine because, at the end of the day, it's up to people where they buy their piggie from (even though I strongly recommend NOT buying from a pet store as I've had bad experiences with ill piggies from there before) and, to people who haven't done an excessive amount of research, pets at home is a place where they can always go and return home with a Guinea pig. Back to the story, the lady then said "of course, i will just go and check the stock". I hate that they can refer to a living animal as "stock". When I think of that word, I think of an inanimate object that needs no care whatsoever. It shows how little attention and care they get whereas in a pet rescue they are extremely attentive and caring. I know this is a really weird post but does this anger anyone else as much as it angers me?

 

[Disaidra]

That's horrid! Some people just shouldn't be working in pet shops, at least not with live animals. Also you'd think they'd have an idea when pigs will be ready to come out of quarantine and on to the shop floor without "checking stock", unless they have tonnes of them back there :O

 

[Louise's Zoo]

They are livestock. As horrid as it may sound, that's what they are to a shop like that. They are ordered in as stock. Sad but true

 

[Lady Kelly]

As horrible as it does sound it doesn't anger me. Animals were classed as stock long before pet shops existing (hence the word livestock - living stock). At the end of the day its a shop, its aim is to sell things (living or not) to make profit and anything it sells is stock.