PETSMART vs PETCO | Who has better SMALL ANIMAL care?
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- You guys really enjoyed the reptile version, so today we're going to be looking at how PetSmart and Petco take care of their small animals. Of course all locations are different, but in general I feel like these stores are a good representation of most that I've been to. Which one do you think had the better care?
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There's a guinea pig rescue in Texas and I got mine from there and the cages are really big. I think pet stores should make their cages bigger. Like if you agree.
are you talking about texas rustlers guinea pig rescue?
Theresa Fulton omg lemme have one ✌️🤷♂️
The thing is is that the little piggies will only be there for like 2 weeks
I used two rabbit cages and my dad combined them by adding a little bridge to the other cage, I have two guinea pigs. They are really happy
Theresa Fulton I agree because my guinea pigs live in a small cage
As a former Petco employee, I can at least give a little insight into how it operates. They sell a lot of small animals. At any given time, the average time an animal will stay in one of those cages is a week. If somebody hasn't bought an animal in over 2 weeks, it usually gets discounted or put up for adoption (with an exception for small parrots like conures and cockatiels who will be in a cage for up to 6 months before being discounted). I adopted out many animals (for free) during my time there. Even fish. Remember to ask if they have any animals for adoption before paying full price! Animal cages are spot cleaned daily in the morning and at night and there is an animal check once an hour (which doesn't always happen). Whenever you're in a petco and you hear the birds chirping or kittens meowing on the speaker, that's the signal for an animal check. Most employees do the animal check but you'll always get those one or two who ignore it. All animals are given fresh food in the morning including greens, cabbage, and fruit. The store I worked at went to the local grocery store 3 times a week for fresh produce. We provided apples, oranges, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, cabbage, mustard greens, dandelion, and kale each morning. Fish are fed once in the morning. Reptiles are fed morning and night. Those that need misting should be misted whenever needed, but that doesn't always happen. Birds are fed morning and night and water changed at least twice a day. Their cages are deep cleaned once a week and spot cleaned daily. Each store has a health recovery room for sick animals. Any animal found sick or needing medical attention is sent to a local vet who works with the store. The store will pay whatever cost to save the animal if its saveable. The animals in the health recovery room are given extra attention. Everything gets logged, animals generally have their own space to recover, and the climate is controlled. Overall, the care is great IF employees are doing it correctly. That is where the problem lies. It takes just one idiot to cause an animal to get sick or die. One shift of not giving an animal water or properly caring for them. That is where Petco needs to step it up. Better employee structure to make sure there is always someone available to make those checks and clean those cages. Many times there were only 2 people opening up a store and nobody else coming in for 3 or 4 hours after we opened. Most employees want to do the animals right and give them all the attention they need but with a constant line of people at the register and only one other person to help customers, that makes it incredibly difficult. That is unacceptable.
I know this was 2 months ago but this person is very much so right. As a Petco employee I actually agree with everything they said. My manager even gave us a meeting saying look animals and guest come first. You gotta look at it that way. She always makes sure we are looking at the cages and keep an eye on them but again it takes one person to really screw it up. People who work there are very ignorant and dont care to do research but there is some people who really take the time and effort to do research. I just think if you're going to sell an animal be knowledgeable of the animal. I remember I stopped this lady from buying 2 hamsters and I told her a couple of websites she can look at to do some research. Petco managers and employees need to really step it up tbh
I work at a C store and it's very common for an animal to be in our care for months. I've been there 8 months and only once was an animal's price reduced due to duration of stay (iguana, there for over a year).
Completely understand your statement in an A store though.
Do u know where older hamsters come from? I just got my 8 month old hamster from petco and I want to know where he was before he was at the store
@@taurus7911 It's possible he was a customer surrender. Petco is typically supposed to adopt out customer surrenders, but occasionally they will just sell them. It's also possible he was at the store for 8 months or so. I've had hamsters hang around in the store I work at for months. 8 months seems like a stretch but I suppose it's possible.
Hi! I am going to be getting a hamster and I was wondering what kind of hamsters Petco usually has to offer! Do you usually have dwarfs?
Once, at PetCo, I saw a dead hamster in the middle of the cage. It was there for a long time until I told them.
Catz once at petsmart, I saw a hermit crab cramped into a small shell and didn’t move at all. Petsmart either didn’t notice, or just didn’t care, both are signs of irresponsibility
PythonBoi 247 At Petco, I was looking at the hermit crabs. There were limbs everywhere. I asked the worker, and he laughed. He said “Oh, they fight sometimes.”
☹😢 so sad
Hermit crabs just shouldnt be sold to begin with :c
🌵ᴄᴀᴛᴢ🌵 maybe the life span.
my cousin bought a "male" rat from petco and a week later it had babies.
peachy pie I have four male rats, and trust me, it's pretty easy to tell if they are males
Naomi ! Right? It's pretty obvious when they have balls.. unless it's a kid and they don't know better or something idk.
Hopefully they are in groups. Rats should never live alone. Also, there will be Cherries it’s a male, 🍒🍒🍒
JPs Pet nation yeah and it was especially stressful to figure out how to rehome a bunch of unexpected rat babies. i ended up taking a couple but she had to keep a lot of them because at that time rats weren't very popular and nobody wanted them
Nooby Cuber it was a long time ago. they've long since passed. and it wasn't my cousin's fault, she was like 6 and petco sold the rat to her parents as a male
Petco won this on in my opinion. At petsmart, animals that need hay (guinea pigs and chinchillas) had none. Some of the wheels seemed too small too.
My petsmart gives them hay they were probably out of hay
Yeah I just mean this particular petsmart and petco
Sofia Rescue instead of supporting cruel pet trade
Sofia my old Hamster only had 3 legs!
Sofia the same petland that doesnt have lids on the hamster tanks so anyone can play with them whenever?
*Why do I keep dying of cuteness every time I see a fluffy guinea pig*
Same
Team Petco:like
Team PetSmart:comment
heyyy pet smart
Ya pet smart
Pet smart idk
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Yes
They both fail in my opinion. Small wheels, bad food, lack of bedding, lack of stimulation.
Nicole Knight agreed.
Sigh. Got a hamster from Petco. Named her Echo. They solded TONS of pine and cedar bedding. Their cages sucked. I got a small cage ;c getting a bigger one next week.
It's a company, not a rescue
Hamzter Gurl TV and? You'd be surprised at how long they can stay there. They deserve good housing. They literally just have to take a product off the shelf once and it's there. The spinners are reusable, there's no excuse for them to be too small.
Nicole Knight yes, but they don't care, sadly like I said they just don't, it's a company that makes money and gets people to pay for the things they sell, it's sad but it's just for business
I personally think petco is slightly better for taking care of animals, while petsmart has way more of a selection of things.
I agree
For small animals but for stuff like fish petco has more varieties
Agreed, team Petco
Yeah petco cares for their animals a bit more where I'm from. I got one of my birds from petco and he was in perfect condition and in less than 2 weeks he was already sitting on my shoulder and chirping away, while the bird I got from petsmart was in terrible condition and it took up to 5 months for him to finally earn my trust.
Yeah. Petsmart has an adoption program where they actually take in hamsters. While petsmart’s adoption program only has elderly or hamsters they weren’t able to sell there.
All I can speak about is the guinea pig care, mega lacking. Wish they showed large piles of hay and had more room to move around. Both stunk for the guinea pig care.
skinnypigs1 yay !! Someone gets me
very true the food bowls were filled with poop and i did not see much hay at all sad to say neither of them did a great job for the piggies they also should not keep so many guinea pigs in that tiny cage a one time
Ikr! That’s what I was thinking! Poor pigs! My friend got a guinea pig from petco that was in the wrong gender cage, had an upper respiratory infection, and now has diarrhea petco has issues
skinnypigs1 Reddit
Riley Rohr those are pellets in the bowl not poop I know that because I have guinea pigs
6:16 (Hamster shakes head) "Not now, I'm trying to sleep"
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*sigh* I just think BOTH of the stores need to up their game in: the enclosure size, the food variety and last but not least how many animals they keep in 1 enclosure. I get that some of them can live with each other but I felt so sorry for the Guinea pigs rats and mice :c
Sprucy Plays its sad that they follow the american regulations for animal care bc they are extremely outdated. Other countries have laws about animal enclosure size.
Those enclosures were not even American regulations, in my opinion. Far too small for the number of animals they had inside. The multiple guinea pigs in that one space, was too small for ONE, let alone all of them.
Passion For Pets i suppose they think its fine because its temporary, but then again these stores sell crittertrails.
Hopefully one day there will be enough awareness surrounding small pet care just like there was with dogs and cats to get people to realize that this is not okay.
Artist art agreed. separating social animals like that is terrible.
I worked at petsmart and the one i worked in we went out of our way to make it safe for our fur babies. We would fight with our store director because we refused to use certain products. We are the best petsmart I have seen when it comes to care. We love our babies and we work with what we got and refused to do what “corporate” wanted.
I think they were pretty close but the one thing that made me decide was that Petsmart didn’t have hay for their guinea pigs. So I think Petco was better.
Animalsforever31 I go to petsmart alot , and they do have hay for the Guinea pigs. I got my lil baby from petsmart , it's like the backwall of the cage is filled with hay🤷♀️
GamingWithAri your PetSmart may have have but not every store is the same and sadly some mangers and employees don’t care or know enough to provide everything guinea pigs need
Kylie Flanagan some of them did I think
I went to one of my pet cos and they had great care!
Yeah. Any PetSmart's I've ever been to, I def don't ever see the guinea pigs w/ any hay. But 🤷 maybe they develop social skills in those cages. But I don't think I've ever seen one alone. I just go to PetSmart for random guinea pig things & guinea pig food
Here's what i took away with this video and what i've seen from my local stores as well.
PETCO: Cleaner cages but smaller cages for their animals. The hamster wheel size was fine for now because they use saucers and all hamsters from petco/petsmart come in at 6 weeks of age on average and saucers are a bit easier to keep propped up, easier to not bend the hamsters back in such a way that it begins to hurt. They had their animals easier to view and looks like someone recently cleaned or else does their hourly checks to make sure everything is looking good. Food bowls were filled and unfortunately both petco/petsmart only have a dish to store their hay in instead of a big pile of hay. Unfortunately Petco/petsmart call these enclosures "Displays" because they want you to buy their animals. They don't care about the animals welbeing,. Petco/petsmart isn't allowed to add more than 1/2 inch of bedding to enclosures or the employees get in trouble. It seriously stinks for these poor animals that they're treated as accessories/toys/things.
PETSMART: Their cages are much bigger but they're quite deep which makes it harder to view the animals. The food bowls were empty but it's probably due to 4 G-pigs eating all the hay and the store is only suppose to supply a tiny small bowl for them at a time. But the enclosures were all a mess and their wheels were all different for the hamsters. We got the mesh wheels which is a NO NO, we got the saucers and then the silent spinners. Unfortunately the wheel was knocked over in one and i've personally noticed with petsmart that they don't do hourly checks OR they don't care to maintain it. My petsmart lacks severely on the small animal department and i've seen multiple wheels knocked over, chew toys not present, etc! It's not good. No wonder my petsmart rarely sells their small animals. Petco wins in my opinion due to how appealing the enclosures look and how often they're checked up on and how quickly their hamsters/small animals get bought. But i hate how lacking the items for sale are at petco and will always go to petsmart for their big assortment of chews and hides and bedding.
I agree
I think the wheels are flipped over like that when there are no animals in the "displays"
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I agree, it sucks though my petco has no dwarfs hamsters and like 2 Syrians that’s it, I’m looking for a dwarf so i guess I’m going to Petsmart
@@bubbles2402 Check out Petfinder and your local Humane Society. I got my enormous Syrian female, Sweetie, at my Humane Society recently, and I've been very happy with her.
I’m torn… Because in the Petsmart the animals that needed hay didn’t have any, but at the Petco the rats had no stimulation and rats are like some of the most intelligent animals… And also the brand of food that the rats are being fed is known to kill rats.
But all in all I’d say the Petco was better because at least they provided hay for the animals that needed it.
But on the other side I think That both of them were terrible because none of the animals got any stimulation at all like, no toys, no chews, etc. etc.
Edit: 24 likes? Thanks guys!
Edit 2: 62 likes?? Wow thanks
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Randomness Lord hi! I respect all of your points. But you do have to take into consideration that these animals arent going to be living here for long-term only for about 2 weeks max. So for short-term living conditions they are abusive or anything but i agree for long-term situations they arent acceptable.
MyFurryHamster Friends
But what happens is that people who buy animals on a whim and aren’t informed think that the pet store cages are ok. Also no stimulation causes stress and that’s not good for any animal. Also also, many animals life for months, if not their whole lives, in these cages. Coming back to my first point, misinformed people will make it so that even if these animals stay in the small pet store cages for a few days, they will be spending there whole lives in these conditions because the people didn’t do their research.
Randomness Lord true. Thats why people really need to be informed before they get a hamster. But i mean there is rly no way to ensure that.
MyFurryHamster Friends
That’s true. I think that pet stores should put out the right information, if they can’t improve cage sizing.
MyFurryHamster Friends Actually some of the animals are there for a long time and drawn absolutely crazy and a lot of the time people are convinced that the cages there are ok, the food there is safe, the wheels are big enough, the animals are healthy, that it’s okay to put a hamster in a plastic ball even sometimes a guinea pig. The torture continues for the poor animals bc of people who don’t do research. I want to point out when I got a hamster I was mindless and didn’t do research and my hamster died in one of those plastic balls from lack of ventilation. Not to be mean but they are tortured there and sometimes tortured at home from all petco and petsmarts lies. HORRIBLE😤
I love how you include the price and show the critters
Fir first I love all your videos I think they’re very inspirational so thank you for making these videos to help me understand how to take care of my pets better
I absolutely LOVE Petco. The staff there are REALLY sweet! 🐶🐱🐭🐹🐰🐟🐢🐍🦎
Finnaly a video on this site that answers the real questions.
When your local petsmart and Petco are literally ACROSS THE STREET FROM EACHOTHER
LOL
Petco won! Like if u agreeee
no, they had many small animals in a small cage at the same time, petsmart at least divided them, and if they were together, it was only in pairs
No, both of them have horrible ways to treat them. The enclosurers are to small. The animals are happier than they were at pet mills but still aren't in the best possible condition. So no one wins. Btw nice try trying get likes.
Lori Woloshyn thats so stupid they put perfume in their stores!!
no, too many animals in the cages. guinea pig cages were tiny. hamster wheels were size inappropriate. and the cage sizes in comparison were smaller. BUT neither were anything great :/
Lori Woloshyn no... No one won.... They are both terrible and shitty companies who want money and they keep their animals in filthy conditions. When you buy them, they all come with diseases and short lifespans due to their terrible living conditions. Dont shop in any of the pet store chains, you aint going to be happy.
I agree about maybe doing a bird one. could you maybe also do a fish one, too?
Do BIRD CARE NEXT!!
Alyssa P that’s a good idea!
Alyssa P I’m thinking about adopting a bird soon so this would be so helpful!!!
I have 3 :) they are my babies but wayyyyy overpriced at both stores.
I think she’s only doing animals she has :). But I could be wrong!
Holly Sanford they are most certainly not 'wayyy overpriced'. They arent a product but a LIFE. The prices should be even higher so people are detered from buying them and caring for them improperly.... birds are not easy pets, and i do not recommend them. An extremely intelligent creature that should live no less than 15 years (for parakeets, others can live to 80) should not be shoved in a tiny cage and fed only seed.
When i was petcare i made sure ALL MY ANIMALS were taken care of to my standards im a big animal person so the well being is super important to me even the fish tanks looked good
Wow they carry way more animals than my local petco and petsmarts
As a Pet Supplies Plus employee, in terms of knowledge and animal care, we win
i’m glad you do this 😊❤️
I have rats and feed them the best I can give, and I can tell just by looking at it that there food is the Kaytee brand which is very bad for them a lot of rats died from eating it
Little T i do not trust kaytee, as three times the food i bought was possibly contaminated with salmonella, luckily neither i nor my bird got sick, but one time is enough much less three. Not only that, some of their small animal bedding says that studies show it can cause cancer...
Little T I have hamsters and I have gotten the bedding which was so dusty and the camo bedding has to much dye it dyed my white robo green I changed it of course but I feel bad for people who don't know and feed there small animals kaytee and use there bedding
Artsy Animal Lover yea the rat guru if u follow her she said she was having money problems and could only use kaytee and by like tmrw she had lost a lot of her rats 🙁
just a horse girl OMG THATS HORRIBLE !!!😨😨 btw I love horses 😁
Little T aw thats very sad.
I got a hamster from PetSmart once and she lived for 2 and a half years! :)
i think that petco is a little better because it is way more organized
YEAH;) finally a UA-camr who listens to his fans
My Petco takes care of the small animals the best!!!!
OML I’ve been looking for your channel for literally months and I FINALLY FOUND IT YESSS!!!
Finally I’m one of the first people to comment but thank you so much pickles because you made one for small pets now really know which one to go to.🙂
2:12 OMG ADORABLE
Yep,the rat care is totally 100% correct! Everything's right! (I'm being sarcastic) 😂.i feel bad 4 all the animals! Hopefully they'll get adopted/bought! 🤗🙈
Adopted maybe, don't buy as it continues the cycle if you do feel bad for them
That ferret was adorable
Well, if you want to get in statistical mesures, read this:
Food Quality:
Petco: some Kaytee Lab Block
PetSmart: Oxbow and random mouse food
PetSmart 1:0
Water: Tie. 2:1
Wheels:
Petco: small flying saucer
PetSmart: small/bare min flying saucer, small silent spinner, decent sized mesh wheel.
PetSmart 3:1
Cages/Size:
Petco: small cage, not enough ventilation for ferrets and rats. Decent sized mouse cage.
PetSmart: small cages (no rats and ferrets)
Petco + .5 ( 3 : 1.5)
Accessories: Both loose, bare cages.
This is wrong mate. Petsmart had wire mesh wheels, terrible for feet. Petco had more than the small saucers.
I think comparing all the petcos would be an amazing video
I think Petco won because they don't keep their Syrian hamster together and Petco dosent
have small tanks
Do the aquariums and fish care next please!
It totally and solely depends on the employees, managers, individual store, region and regional managers as to the care that the animals actually receive. Both corporations have strict rules to follow, however any individual, ANYONE working for either corporation can abuse and neglect their responsibilities/power.
Now if we get down to what actual rules/codes each corporation has put in place in caring for the animals, there are clear differences. But whether those rules are even carried out properly completely depends on each individual person working at the time, in every position all of the way up.
I will say that for both corporations and any corporation selling animals, profit comes first. They will always put the profit above the care. Thats how business works and that’s why I’ll never support them. Something big to remember.
I speak as an animal educator who has indeed worked in these pet corporations and what I learned I was completely let down by. The general public has no idea how bad it is.
Some individuals really care and do a great job with the animals, others are just working to make money and couldn’t care less about the fact that animals depend on them to survive.
PLEASE DO A FISH ONE NEXT! ! like fish, turtles, hermit crabs, shrimp, snails.
Your vids make my day
Hi guys. I'm from Slovakia, middle of Eurode and we've got 🐹SUPER ZOO🐹
you should make a video! wonder what pet stores can be like there
yay another awsome video!
Pickles pets you're eyes are beautiful 💚
All the hamsters and ferrets are adorable too :D
You should compare fish care! Great video btw!
Yayyyyyyyyyyy I have been waiting for this video!!!!!
i was reading the comments and I agree with everyone
6:19 what a mood
4:09 I love my Guinea pigs and just seeing this makes me want to take them ALL! poop in food bowls, no hay, not cool.
Now I gotta see petsmart...
6:31 okay, I came back... food bowls turned over. I forgot if there were toys in any of them or not. thank you for your video. God bless you 💙🐝💙
Yay! 😁 you did it! Thank You so Much
Each store had pros and cons in the care based off of the cages, but it would be cool if you would compare Petco’s and Petsmart’s care guides
I would love to see birds comparison next!!!💕
I love your videos please respond and I’m your biggest fan and thank you for teaching me soooo much have a good day 🧡💛❤️🙂
Can you do a video on who takes care of fish better petco or petsmart
I got a robo dwarf from pet smart she’s so cute
I got a short haired American guinea pig breed from PetSmart. I got a long haired Peruvian guinea pig from the flea market. I love them & they're fun to watch. Beats getting in trouble 🤷. Anyway I do wonder how they think sometimes. Like I just trimmed the Peruvian. Sometimes I think my older one, Whiskers, the American breed, looks at him in amusement. W/ lots of things. I know he takes notice. But he must look at the Peruvian, Axl, like ,"🤭 no offense. But you needed that hair cut! You stank sometimes. Poor youngen. He sure does have alotta hair 🤔. Heh, sometimes I can see his hiney. Sometimes that dude has bangs in his face, mohawks, all kinds of stuff. Can't blame him tho. That looks like alotta grooming."
The Petco I personally work at it amazing at caring for the animals. I help do animal maintenance in the mornings and we are very good about keeping everything clean. We really do care when we lose one. The mammals all get fresh fruit and veggies every morning. The reptiles like the beardies and hermit crabs also get fresh vegetables.
Ok so I have ferrets why is there dried food in there cages and the hamster food they use is uhg
Yeah. The ferret food they have in there looks like dust. At least use some higher quality food, if not raw.
Little T petco uses Marshall ferret food. They had both dry and moistened food. If it was past noon when She filmed this that food should have been removed.
Most US ferrets are Marshall farm they require pet stores to feed their food to their kits and push it as the best.
Yeah. Marshall's ferret food is the worst for them, but I think they are fed that to promote it. Not all dry foods are bad though. Dry food like Wysong Ferret food is actually pretty good for them... Raw is better though.
Ferrets are sooooooooooooo damn adorable, but sadly, they are illegal here in California. 😕
6:09 mood
Love you so much
I don’t care how late I am I just want to say your petsmart is sooo much better then mine. They feed the animals about 4 times a week and not on weekends. They use the smallest size of mesh wheels for all their animals. They have a tiny mesh wheel in the guinea pig cage like they can run on it when they don’t need wheels. Also they keep around 3 piggies at a time in the tiny hamster cages. One time I saw a hamster fight that was very bad and I told and employee so they could unlock he cage and separate them. They came at the slowest pace they could go and saw them and said just let them battle it out it’s fun to watch. ONE OF THE HAMSTERS IN THAT FIGHT LOST A LEG!! They didn’t care at all. A person who works for a animal cruelty investigation said they would handle it and help the animals.
I really don’t know. PetSmart had plastic in the chinchilla cage, they both had really small wheels, there wasn’t enough bedding, there was only pellets or blocks for the hamsters no seeds, dried ferret food, etc. I don’t think either of them were really good. Anyways love your channel Terra❤️
My Furry Family They provide the blocks instead of pellets because they have had troubles with the animals just picking out the sunflower seeds out of the mix. I worked there for a while and that is what they told me. I hope this helps. ❤
My Furry Family my pet mice lived on Oxbow block and nothing else. They don’t know how to eat Fresh food. I supplement with dog biscuit, dried fruit/seed treat mix, Millet and Tiny Friends Mimi Mouse food. I’m still looking for other healthy treats..I was wanting to try meal worms but I don’t know.
Hi, I honestly liked that Petsmart was using better wheels for their small critters. Their food looked like a better quality, I just can't be sure about that, just going off looks. I noticed Petco had more bedding in the tanks though, but down side, they also has many more critters per tank 😢. Kinda 6 in one hand, half dozen in the other. I'd probably have to go with Petsmart on this one. Thanks, as always, for you fantastic videos.👍🏻👍🏻💖
I’m from England and oh my god our pet shop is a lot better🤣 we have petsathome ! Also in the uk we are not allowed to self kittens or puppies in pet shops!!
yeh!The guinea pigs and rabbits cage are okay!
I was looking forward to this!
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I got my gerbil and two parrakeets from PetSmart,we have had all of them for about almost two years.
Petco won in my opnion bc at 6:17 the poor animal looked like it was dying
6:17 in pet smart
its sleeping....
Btw, here in British Columbia, it’s legal to own just about anything!
The food they give them looks really bad and cheap. There isn't enough bedding for the hamsters to dig in either, and in the second pet shop we are even able to see the glass(?) that the animals stand on.
Petco was better
sharpshooter the first one was petco
Mixonisse I didnt bother to recheck, thanks
i love your hair!!
- also you are gorgeous
Hi
The last time I was at petsmart there were 2 dwarf hamsters running on one wheel at the same time.
Super_llama_ Boy sad😕
I think petco has better small animal care than petsmart
Compared to pets at home in uk. The guinea pig enclosures are tiny in petco and petsmart 😱
Nothing off dis store have good pet care. So don't bye animal on a store The are not a toy they ar a animal.
I love your channel so much
For my opinion no one wins because they all sucks on caring for animals and if you want to a pet you can (adopt)👌🏻❤️👎🏻👍🏻
This video helps a lot! I’m getting a hamster soon and it was nice to see a comparison and see which one took better care of their animals.
The petsmart in my area is amazing it has HUGE tanks for the animals there and there all pervaded with the appropriate size wheel and silent spinners and tell people not to buy the critter trail cages not saying that’s worth anything but from the surface it looks like they take good care of the pets but you never know what goes on behind the scenes..
Between those pet stores I think petco wins since it seems to give the hamsters the correct wheels and the cages look cleaner and the pets are in better condition
The petsmart where I live takes amazing care of their animals. I’ve been to the petsmarts and petcos in different places of my state and they each take different care some suck and some are good
Petco won this although there were definitely things to improve on
I got my two first guinea pigs five months ago.. idk where they were from, my mom said when she went to visit her friend in the hospital there was a petstore. They still haven't warmed up. Got my other one two months ago at Petco. The first day we brought him home he was bright and active, and he would walk up to the door and let us pet him.
Petsmart did wayyyy better on the hamster food Ox bow is the best
Little T Actually, Oxbow changed their formula and now it is no longer recommended, definitely not as the only food provided. There even have been cases of the food starving hamsters. A hamster needs a mix of a seed mix and lab block to stay healthy. Hopefully this informs you a bit. :)
Oxbow is hay based so while it's great for other animals like rabbits and such... it's no good for hammies.
Oxbow is actually pretty awful, Petco was feeding Kaytee blocks which still not perfect, but are still better than Oxbow
Little T no... kt jas nothing really. get sunburst higgins and mix ot with rat and mouse marzri
Oxbow is better with all food except hamsters.
I used to have a ferit, 2 actually. We babysitter them for like two months.. named them lily and mazey
I was talking with a friend's mom the other day (who happens to be a vet) and she told me to be careful when shopping at Petco. Where she works, practically every day they get different pets from Petco in their office, with infections and diseases ALL THE TIME, while our local PetSmart hardly ever sends it's small animals there. Honestly she just thinks it's where Petco gets it's animals from that's to blame, but all the same, its just safer where I live to go to PetSmart.
Wow! Heard the very same thing from a friend who is a Vet as well
Libby Gee petsmart refuses to take it pets to the vet because it affect bonuses. Petco takes animals in within 24 hours of noticing anything wrong to avoid animal deaths.
Read this and see why you don't see petsmarts animals at the vet
www.cbsnews.com/news/petsmart-raid-could-lead-to-animal-abuse-charges/
Libby Gee petco has to take animals to the vet.
They get taken to the vet every which way because its better to bring them to the vet and get the care before pawning it off on an unsuspecting buyer to deal with.
Drove an hour for a 25 min drive on a snowstorm for a mouse to go to the vet. I dunno I just dont think petsmart would do that.
Petsmart should actually take their sick animals to the vet. Petco animals are seen within 24 hours, and then put on a special care plan until they are well again. You'll never get sold a sick animal, because they arent allowed on the floor. And if a mistake has happened where an employee didnt notice the onset of a sickness, you can bring your animal back for a full refund and we will bring it to the vet.
Great video! But yes they really depend on each individual location
Okay they both are awfulllllll to there animals but I will have to actually go with petco because it looked cleaner bigger but I'm mad because both places need more food choices for them they usually give them lettuce and fiber cubes or fiber pellets or somthing like that they need to give them fruit and vegetables and nuts like if you agree.
Skyies Rats the chain I work for is actually the only pet store who feeds veggies but it’s in the morning before opening so by the time customers are in, they are already ate up :) we do a lot (and actually spend our, the workers money on these animals)
Petco feeds fresh veggies? They eat fresh veggies in the morning before the store opens or right as it opens.
you're an idiot. you have no idea how much care we at Petsmart give these animals. you've never even worked for either store so you have no clue. typical for someone like you to run your mouth when you have no idea.
My local Petco for sure has the best care
Personally, I would choose PetSmart. The PetCo I go to kinda sucks. First of all, their ferret area is right next to the hamsters, and I can tell the employees don't clean their enclosures very well. When I go to the hamsters, I can smell ferret poop. PetSmart is better in my opinion because they have colored Carefresh bedding, while my PetCo has only natural. My PetCo has more chews like bendy bridges, but my PetSmart doesn't. I'm sad that I live in AK, because here you can only have Syrians, not dwarfs.
CoolSlimeGuy1234 not hating, but what do you mean by colored bedding? Like they have it in the cage with the animal or are actually selling the bedding?
I meant colored bedding, aka green, yellow, blue.
And they are selling it.
CoolSlimeGuy1234 Why can’t y’all have dwarfs? I don’t see a problem
Petco. I love that place. It has more stuff to get for your pets and there are more animals there
I work at Petco, in the one I work thank God we are all Animal people our animals are all well taken care of and there well being is priority, I'm aquatics specialist and my tanks are sparkling always!!!!
if u look in the fancy mouse igloo there is a white mouse I think that's the one I have I named my Cloud
I haven’t realized how cheap the pets are at both shops!
Thank you
Petco for me!!!!
My dog and I paid a visit to our local Petsmart today to pick up some more chew toys for both him and my hamster. Most Syrians had 6.5in wheels, but I noticed at least one with a 4ish inch wheel! I don't think the proper size would fit in the little tanks they have hamsters in, but at least try and give them a 6.5incher! I saw my little guy's brothers there as well, Campbell's dwarfs. All sleeping, but very cute just like their brother. He's my first hamster, bought at Petsmart. After watching so many videos from you and Munchie I'll definitely look into adoption when I get another. I'm all for adoption of cats and dogs and would love to start supporting small animal adoption as well!