Monster Pets in South Philly

**BluegrassCat** · 04-18-2011, 12:48 PM

Are they kidding me with the "Rabbit Specials" for Easter? Also, they should tell their employees to stop joking about cutting up live rabbits with scissors to feed to the one employee's "Pet Alligator" in front of paying customers. I can't stand this place anymore and should have stopped going a long time ago.

On the flip side, I wanted to thank the couple in the parking lot that was handing out useful information on how to adopt a rabbit and what to expect when doing so. The weather was miserable on saturday, but these two were out there doing the right thing.

**BarryG** · 04-18-2011, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by BluegrassCat

Are they kidding me with the "Rabbit Specials" for Easter? Also, they should tell their employees to stop joking about cutting up live rabbits with scissors to feed to the one employee's "Pet Alligator" in front of paying customers. I can't stand this place anymore and should have stopped going a long time ago.

On the flip side, I wanted to thank the couple in the parking lot that was handing out useful information on how to adopt a rabbit and what to expect when doing so. The weather was miserable on saturday, but these two were out there doing the right thing.

Sounds pretty funny to me. I like Monster Pets; the location is convenient, the place is pretty well run and the service, in general, is good. Plus it's locally owned.

I would never buy a pet there, though.

**BluegrassCat** · 04-18-2011, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by BarryG

Sounds pretty funny to me. I like Monster Pets; the location is convenient, the place is pretty well run and the service, in general, is good. Plus it's locally owned.

I would never buy a pet there, though.

I am glad you found it funny.

Call me strange, but I find it odd that employees of a Pet Store would openly "joke" about abusing animals.

**hkp** · 04-18-2011, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by BluegrassCat

I am glad you found it funny.

Call me strange, but I find it odd that employees of a Pet Store would openly "joke" about abusing animals.

I don't know, those rabbits they have at the front that look like walking "Moe" haircuts with ears kind of seem like they'd deserve it...

**bluecuracao** · 04-18-2011, 04:46 PM

We got our cat from there. Technically, he was free...except that MB was required to purchase $30 worth of food and toys before he could bring him home.

He didn't have much of a choice, though. Bosco did that paw-on-the-glass thing that kitties do to make humans weak.

At the time, Bosco was the only cat, but they had several dogs there that were actually for sale. Wish they wouldn't do that.

**ColeenH** · 04-18-2011, 06:33 PM

Locally owned or not, I will never patronize a place that sells live animals.

**CHIOSSO** · 04-18-2011, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by ColeenH

Locally owned or not, I will never patronize a place that sells live animals.

If the place sold dead animals it would be a butcher shop.

**Gladys** · 04-18-2011, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by BluegrassCat

Are they kidding me with the "Rabbit Specials" for Easter? Also, they should tell their employees to stop joking about cutting up live rabbits with scissors to feed to the one employee's "Pet Alligator" in front of paying customers. I can't stand this place anymore and should have stopped going a long time ago.

On the flip side, I wanted to thank the couple in the parking lot that was handing out useful information on how to adopt a rabbit and what to expect when doing so. The weather was miserable on saturday, but these two were out there doing the right thing.

Why not contact the owner and tell them. Since it's locally owned they could do something. I'd do it but i didn't hear the exchange.

Selling rabbits for easter is plain dumb. They will just be taken to ACCT in a month and then hopefully collected by a rabbit rescue. Yes you heard me right there are actually rabbit rescues because idiots want a cute little bunny and haven't a clue what that means long term.

**Sycamore** · 04-18-2011, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by ColeenH

Locally owned or not, I will never patronize a place that sells live animals.

Ditto.

**Pibbles** · 04-18-2011, 08:37 PM

Double ditto.
There used to be a group who protested their every saturday because they were selling puppies. I think they have another store in Parkside too.

**phillysw** · 04-19-2011, 08:15 AM

Anyone who buys a kitten or puppy from a pet store deserves the massive vet bills they will likely experience down the line. And yet people do less research on what kind of animal to acquire and where than they do on the latest cell phone.

I predict that at least 75% of those bunnies will end up released into local parks or dropped at the shelter.

And yes, Monster Pets does have another location in Parkside, which I'm sure has sent the percentage of "pure bred" small dogs dropped off at ACCT from that zipcode through the roof.

**BluegrassCat** · 04-19-2011, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Gladys

Why not contact the owner and tell them. Since it's locally owned they could do something. I'd do it but i didn't hear the exchange.

Selling rabbits for easter is plain dumb. They will just be taken to ACCT in a month and then hopefully collected by a rabbit rescue. Yes you heard me right there are actually rabbit rescues because idiots want a cute little bunny and haven't a clue what that means long term.

Exactly, Gladys! And then people like me and my wife end up with these rabbits. Our current rabbit was an "Easter Bunny" who was then given up once the novelty of having a baby bunny wore off. The old owners couldn't or didn't want to understand why he was spraying. A google search would have answered their question, but I am sure it was about the $$$ it would cost to have him neutered.

**hubba1** · 06-06-2011, 11:20 PM

Its a lose lose... they sell dogs... that sucks... so what, don't buy them, and let them stay locked up in those little cages? I'm not a fan of it either (I did buy my dog, but from a co-worker who bred her dog, I won't buy another dog.. I will adopt, but I knew everything about my dogs family\bloodline at least). And those freaks that sat outside protesting annoyed me...ok, protest is ok... but the one who would lock herself up in a cage out there, I wanted to tie it to my bumper and drag her down the street.

**Dolemite** · 06-07-2011, 10:06 AM

They should pass this out for later: How to Field Dress a Rabbit - wikiHow

**RedBullMB** · 06-07-2011, 12:15 PM

Wasn't there a pet shop by the Shop Rite / Payless as well? I just remember a few years back the A/C went out in one of them for a spell, and quite a few animals died. I thought it was Monster Pets, but maybe that's beacuse of the odd name.

**bluecuracao** · 06-07-2011, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by hubba1

Its a lose lose... they sell dogs... that sucks... so what, don't buy them, and let them stay locked up in those little cages?

I know what you mean...Bosco, who at that point was almost not a kitten anymore, may not have fared too well if we hadn't taken him out of there. Li'l bastid got lucky!

**ColeenH** · 06-07-2011, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

I know what you mean...Bosco, who at that point was almost not a kitten anymore, may not have fared too well if we hadn't taken him out of there. Li'l bastid got lucky!

Economics lesson -- supply and demand.

As long as people continue to buy puppies from pet stores (ie, the Demand), puppy millers will breed puppies (Supply). When producing puppies en masse stops being profitable, they will no longer breed puppies.

Puppy millers don't care if you feel you are "rescuing" that puppy or kitten from the pet store -- it's money in their pockets. It's incentive for them to breed another litter of puppies, because some bleeding heart will buy it.

**Dolemite** · 06-07-2011, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by ColeenH

Economics lesson -- supply and demand.

Actually as long as people demand pets there will be people to supply them.

**ColeenH** · 06-07-2011, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Dolemite

Actually as long as people demand pets there will be people to supply them.

Pretty sure that's what I just said.

However, when people begin to demand ethical and responsible breeding, puppy mills will no longer have customers, and we will no longer euthanize 4 million companion animals every year. Responsible breeding means screening "parent" dogs for genetic diseases. It means breeding to better the breed. It means requiring the puppy to be spayed or neutered so as not to contribute to the overpopulation problem we have now.

**loveisnoise** · 06-08-2011, 01:11 AM

That idiot was on phillyblog and I told off the group in person and online. I've got no problem being for animals... but they were a jersey vegan group costuming themselves as an animal rights group. They were so idiotic that even the PETA jerkoffs wanted nothing to do with them.

Originally Posted by hubba1

Its a lose lose... they sell dogs... that sucks... so what, don't buy them, and let them stay locked up in those little cages? I'm not a fan of it either (I did buy my dog, but from a co-worker who bred her dog, I won't buy another dog.. I will adopt, but I knew everything about my dogs family\bloodline at least). And those freaks that sat outside protesting annoyed me...ok, protest is ok... but the one who would lock herself up in a cage out there, I wanted to tie it to my bumper and drag her down the street.