If you send letters to Petsmart, please copy and send to Petco Corp and
USDA APHIS as well. Didn't PetSmart vet assure the ferret community
that they were purchasing their ferret stock from a company that
treated ferrets more humanely than Marshalls? Petco says "Animals
always come first" yet they purchase from a deadly tortureous animal
mill which enables the mill to continue.

Pressure needs to be put on not only the torture chamber mill but also
the stores that bought from them and the licensing agencies at all
levels.

Can someone explain to me how a federal inspector didn't see what was
going on with dead and dying animals, overcrowding, cannibalism, filth,
etc? Inspections are to prevent this from happening.

The ferrets that were to be euthanized for aggression that came to me
were originally from Rainbow World Exotics. They do have behavior
issues and from what they went through at that barbaric torture dungeon
of a warehouse I'm not surprised. My heart breaks for those we couldn't
save....

Please write your polite strong pointed letters today.

APHIS Headquarters
USDA-APHIS-AC
4700 River Road
Unit 84
Riverdale, MD
20737-1234
E-mail:
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Tel: (301) 734-7833
Fax (301) 734-4978

Western Region (includes TX)
USDA-APHIS-AC
2150 Centre Ave.
Building B, Mailstop 3W11
Fort Collins, CO
80526-8117
E-mail:
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Tel: (970) 494-7478
Fax: (970) 494-7461

Corporate Addresses:
PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.
9125 Rehco Road
San Diego, CA 92121
Telephone: (858) 453-7845

PetSmart, Inc.
19601 North 27th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85027
Phone: (623) 580-6100


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