As a personal animal lover myself, it's heartbreaking seeing "hamster cages" at places like PetSmart when they look more like dollhouses. Domesticated hamsters don't get enough love and appreciation and I hope we as humans can all do better to help out our fuzzy friends
In 2022 I became interested in adopting a Hamster. I had no idea the amount of work and money that needed to go into owning a hamster. Through amazing people on YouTube I learned how to properly take care of a hamster. It is not cheap and they are not low maintenance pets. Most people think hamsters are ‘easy, cheap, and fun pets’ and that is what leads to this horrible mistreatment of hamsters and all pets sold by pet smart in general. There is no cheap pet. Hamsters are not kids toys. Pet smart, please, we are asking you to treat Hamsters and other animals you sell with the respect they deserve. No one wants to be locked up.
Considering the mandate of the organizations which should have immediately intervened on behalf of Dakota it is shocking that her neglect and abuse was allowed to continue (until too late). This is a very sad outcome and should never happen gain. There should be upgrades to the animal cruelty law in Canada to fully cover these kinds of cases to act as a major deterrent.
no animal deserves this kind of abuse. they are only with us for a short amount of time, why make that time cruel, depressing, neglectful, and harmful? all animals deserve to love and be loved, and should know what happiness feels like. this situation makes me sick and i hope animal cruelty rescues like the bcspca live up to their purpose, and if they don’t, why do we keep supporting them? make something happen, for the love of animals.
As someone that has a rescue, it’s heart breaking when you see a dog that deserves a happy life, being mistreated. This is when BCSPCA is supposed to help instead of being absolutely useless. At what point will they care? When Johnny passes away from the abuse? You’re begging someone to go in and fee the dog and re-home him themselves and honestly someone should. The people abusing that dog should be charged for negligence and abuse.
Animals give us sooo very much in the form of Love, companionship, protection, security and really ask for so little in return. The animals that provide food in form of milk, eggs, other dairy or their lives at the very very least deserve to be treated humanely . If you interact with animals, mama's, sea creatures, reptiles, amphibians etc for any length of time you can not help but see they have emotions, feelings, interactions as we do. It is time we have laws and penalties severe enough to stop inhumane cruelty to these other