Petland birthday parties
 

This might be old news but tonight I seen a comercial for it and its the first i've heard they do birthday parties. This just blows my mind.. I don't even know what to say :thumbdown

"Petland’s puppies and kittens can take center stage at your next bash. A good option for any age group, Petland staff bring between six and ten of their pets currently available for adoption including kittens, puppies, birds, reptiles, hamsters and rabbits. The animal handler will discuss pet care and the children have the opportunity to touch, pet or cuddle the animals. Parties cost $125 for up to eight children. Weekends book up quickly so call several weeks in advance or even better, book a weekday after school party."

They're kidding right?

What's Petland? I paid $350 for a petting zoo to come to my daughter's bday party...depending on what Petland is, it's cheaper than the petting zoo I had?????

Petland.. as in the pet store that sells puppies (puppy mill puppies of course)

I went to the link and was not able to see were they are offering birthday parties BUT what I did find was a link that PETLAND donated a puppy to Make A Wish! I Make A Wish a nice email stating until they no longer have a relationship with Petland that I will no longer donate to their charity! I am appauled that Make A Wish would accept a puppy from that filthy place and hand it over to a child suffering from a life threatening illness!!!!! Can you even imagine how traumatizing it would be if one of these puppies were to have medical issues or worse! :mad: WTH!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

As for the birthday party at a Petland those people need to all be shut down! My head is ready to EXPLODE! :mad:http://www.petland.com/PetlandNews/P...s-040309-1.htm

Oh, that is just rediculous then.....I've never heard of it, where is it?

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Not only does Make A Wish have a relationship with them but St Jude does as well! I am beyond disgusted at this point! :mad: Looks like I will also be sending an email to St. Jude as well. I have to say that both of these charities are wonderful for many very sick children but to have an affiliation with Petland! :mad:

From the stories I've heard here on YT of members suddenly losing puppies that have come from places like this I can see a potential problem.
What if a puppy that was meant to bring joy to a child, suddenly dies??? How heartbreaking!!! I just made myself sad.:(

You're Kidding!!
 

Oh yuck now I will have to write to St Jude too.

i can honestly say my jaw dropped when i saw this thread. I had NO idea petland was pairing up with Make a Wish. I'm in SHOCK! I have been a private nurse for Make a Wish twice..both times i went to disney with families. Make a Wish was wonderful , but I CANT believe they are doing this!!!??? WHYYYYYYY would they want to give a sick kid a puppymill furbaby?? :( I'm so sad over this. I'm going to have to send them a little email. :mad:

Just did it
 

Just emailed both Make-a-wish and St. Jude----I won't donate to them if they take animals from Petland and I told them they will lose animal loving donors like me

I'm sorry, the link came through when I pasted the quote from the site I found that little paragraph on, i didn't even realize that the word petland came through as a link.


Those were my thoughts as well when I read about them donating to them

Wow this make me sick, Im going to email them too. I gotta say, Im not shocked because alot of these charities can be full of greedy money hungry people. They need to disclose where every penny is spent...So Sad...Make me pi##ed

My neighbor's little girl was dx with Wilm's Tumor on her second birthday and Make a Wish was wonderful to her as well! She too went to Disney World once she was in remission. They make so many very sick children happy but to have an association with Petland! OUTRAGEOUS! Let's not forget about St. Jude! This is horrible! I am so appalled by this that I just sent out an email to everyone in my address book!

I really don't even know what to say. No matter how many stories that are broadcasted on the news about where these puppies come from and how tons of them are dying, people are still going and buying from them. I didn't even know about the charities being involved with them as well. I just...I'm speechless.

Seems petland really knows how to try to pull at the heart strings of the public to convince them they are good guys. Oh look we support children's charities, we allow birthday parties in our stores so that a group of kids can come in and learn about animals. (I would love to be a birthday worker there for a day and give everyone an education on where the animals come from). For any 1 birthday party that does take place there, let's figure there are about 6 to 8 children there falling in love with the little puppies they bring in and "teach" them about. It's nothing but bait, they know all those kids are going to carry on and on about how they want this puppy or that puppy for their very own... .its such a vicious thing to do

Let's not forget to mention the kids that actually get a puppy from Petland at their birthday party~like that doesn't happen! I was thinking that maybe Oprah and all of her support for puppymills needs to somehow find out about this link between Petland and Make A Wish and St. Judes. That would be explosive IMO.

:thumbdown:thumbdown Thats all I can say.

Please keep in mind that the good people working with Make a Wish and St. Jude probable don't know a thing about Petland....I never even heard of it and I love animals. I'm sure they don't realize where the puppies are coming from. Not everyone knows about these pet store - puppy mill scams.......Don't let someone who is unjust to animals do furthure harm to people doing good to kids:) Maybe we should try and hook St. Jude and Make a Wish foundation up with the animals in shelters instead!!!!

It is never a good idea to offer animals as an auction item or to just give to a sick child or any child without first checking out the home, making sure the pet is wanted and of course, making sure there is someone willing to take responsibility for the pet. In my experience, a person looking after either a very sick and/or debilitated child or adult, does not have the time or energy to take on a dog or puppy too. It would only work if there is other family members that can and is willing to take on the responsibility for the pet.
As for Petland and people buying from pet stores, often the potential buyer is told the puppies come from loving local breeders. Hogwash! What loving breeder would turn over litters of puppies to someone else to sell and not know where their puppies went, who they were sold too, what kind of situation they may end up living in, are they going to end up as breeding for a puppymill with deplorable living conditions? Yet people fall for it because the store clerk told them.
Pet stores can usually fill the impulse buyer, the buyer who doesn't want to wait for the right puppy, and you can put it on credit cards.

Well heck - when I read the title I thought maybe it was a place like ChuckECheese but for pets! I think I like my idea better.

That is not my point of being so angry about this~I am running on the assumption that Make A Wish and St. Jude are unaware of exactly where these puppies are coming from. What I think is that we need to inform them and that is exactly what I did last night. I email both organization, forwarded this information on to all of my friends and asked them to let both of these organization know about Petland and their business practices.

As for hooking sick kids up with shelter dogs personally I just cannot see that happening. What kid doesn't love a puppy and as much as I would love to see more shelter dogs go to good home I believe that a child who really would like a puppy while battling a life threatening disease should be allowed to have a healthy, quality pet that doesn't come from Petland. I am looking at the bigger picture of a sick child receiving a puppy from a mill, it getting sick and also having a lifelong medical condition. That would really break my heart as I am sure it would for the Make a Wish foundation as well.

What is upsetting to me also it the Petland has this information plastered on their website like they are good and caring people giving puppies to Make A Wish and St. Jude when all they are really doing is supporting puppy mills. I personally do not see anything wrong with someone purchasing a puppy from a reputable breeder. There would be far less animals in shelter if this was done. That really gets my blood boiling about this is that when a child is sick and they receive a puppy from Make A Wish that was donated by Petland that child's illness has touched so many lives. Now those people involved in that child's life will remember that Petland was wonderful and gave a puppy to a sick kid. Can you wrap your mind around this? I wholeheartedly believe in what Make A Wish and St. Jude does from children but I will BEAT they have no idea what it means by taking a puppy from them. The trickle down of what this Wish or care does and the perpetuation of the suffering of the dogs living in the mills. Not only that but the girl that I read about was 17 yrs old and received a Bulldog puppy last week from Petland. At what point do you think she will put two and two together and realize exactly what she has. That is heartbreaking to me.

I am also shocked that more people are not outraged by this connection and that I had to dig through so many posts to even find and respond back to this again. I want to bump this up so that more people are aware of what is going on with Petland. Make A Wish and St. Jude can continue to do good without associating themselves with Petland~IMO. I personally sent out email yesterday and am hoping that everyone else that reads this will do so as well. :)

Understood :thumbup:

OMG:eyeballpc I am a HUGE SUPPORTER of MAW & St Judes obviously because my 6 yr old son just finished 2 yrs of chemo a couple of months ago and we received our MAW trip in December. I am soooo shocked, im speechless.:(

I will be sending an email to our MAW staff and another to St Judes. They are two WONDERFUL charities that do NOT need to be associated with Petland.

PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS DISCOURAGE YOU FROM SUPPORTING EITHER MAW OR ST JUDES. Go look at my pictures, my son Evan is living proof that both MAW & St Judes are still doing what they promise. I still have my son when I wasn't promised this day 2 yrs ago thanks to the research that goes on at St Judes....:hands:

IMO Petland attached themselves to two very well known and well liked organizations for obvious reasons.

You people are just being silly
 

You people are being ridiculous. Yes, puppy mills are bad. Yes, some petland stores sell from puppy mills. But not all of them do; some actually do the research and visit the facilities to make sure the puppies are coming from quality breeders. I used to own a petland store in fl and i personally did all of the puppy purchasing. I cant speak for all petlands, just the one i had (it is closed now).

All of that is beside the point. The point I would like to make is how can you possibly fault someone for trying to help make someones life better? Your going to cease donations to these charities because they accepted a donation from someone you dont like? You should be ashamed of yourselves. I would like to see ANY documentation/articles from where a petland pet that was donated to one of these charities had any problems. I agree that some of the stores are disgusting, but you are equally as disgusting for bringing your puppy mill politics into the charity realm.

:rolleyes:

I don't believe anyone is going to stop donating to charities, they are just stating that they are going to bring it to the charities attention that they are support, and ADVERTISING petlands puppies. I also don't think anyone of the posters that are involved in this thread are going to change their mind about ANY petland stores based on what you said. Plain and simple, call it a puppy mill, BYB or "facility" no responsible breeder who breeds for the right reasons is going to sell a middle man

Looks like we might have rattled someone's cage at Petland bringing this to light :rolleyes: GOOD!

Sevenfortythree~welcome to YT! :wavey: Now that you are here maybe you can broaden your knowledge base and we can enlighten you on exactly why ALL Petland's and pet shops that sell puppies need to be put out of business. It does not matter if a puppy that was donated by Petland had a "problem" or not--what is a matter of FACT is the Puppymill atrocities that are committed by puppymill owners repeatedly all over this country. Take a look around at all of the mill busts and the condition of the poor animals that come out of these "facilities". The type of treatment or lack there of is what is appalling to me personally. The years of misery that these dogs are faced with only to disguarded when their usefulness for breeding has ended and they are tossed like trash is what is disturbing to me. This is the reason that ASPCA pickets in front of Petlands all over this country! The more awareness that is created against the horrors of puppymills the better!

I personally as not ridiculous in my opinion of Petland and thier association with puppymills and the Hunt Corporation. There is a huge movement that is gaining more and more momentum to put not only pet stores and yes Petland out of business because of the deceit that they so often have been proven to work under.

$20 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Petland

Petland and Hunte Corp. Accused of Illegal Business Practices and Selling Sick Puppies | Animal Law Coalition

Consumer complaints about Petland

These are just a few of the articles that I was able to find regarding Petland and sick puppies, where the puppies came from and why it is wrong to purchase puppies from Petland or for that fact any other pet shop.

I have every right to voice my opinion that I will not in good conscious be able to continue to support Make a Wish or St. Jude if they continue to accept donations of any kind from ANY Petland! I also have a right to let everyone that I know of this practice and will make sure that I continue my quest to let everyone know that will listen about why it is wrong to purchase a puppy from ANY pet store. I will continue to volunteer in rescue to personally try to make a difference for even a few that are in need. I will also continue to email each and every member of the boards of both of these charities and will encourage every person that will listen to do so as well.

As I stated earlier, I think that both Make a Wish and St. Jude are wonderful and caring organizations. I cannot imagine all of the good and caring people that work within these organizations wanting to associate themselves with the misery associated with a puppymill.

You have got to be kidding....How can you even come to this site and make this statement. Lets just turn our heads and not do anything about this just like most do about Darfour.Is that what you are saying...MONEY MONEY MONEY.

You know, Im so glad this Forum does not stick their heads in the sand. They stand up and FIGHT what they believe. Its very hard for me to believe that people will profit off of an inocent animal. I refuse to go to any place or support any thing as such. My children have and will never go to a zoo or a circus or a store that buys from mills and sells baby animals.

Your son is LIVING PROOF that both MaW and St. Jude indeed make miracles happen and that is the exact reason I know in my heart they have no idea that they are basically dealing with the devil when it comes to Petland and their business practices. This is the reason that I was appalled when I stumbled onto a link associating the three. This is also the reason that I emailed everyone that I knew to let them know~and everyone of those people responded they too were shocked! But it was right there under all of our noses on the Petland Corporate website! I will also bet that all of the celebrities that support both of these charities also have no idea how this is all linked together :eek: I am also sure that they too would not condone making any child's MaW with a puppy from Petland!

What wonderful news that St. Jude was able to offer your son all that he needed to become well again. :)