Pets At Home Adoption Scheme

higginbotham

Hi,

On Saturday, my girlfriend and I adopted a Hamster from the Pets at Home Adoption Centre.

There is no charge, but a minimum donation charge for each type of animal, which goes to the PAH Adoption Charity.

We were looking around and my girlfriend was instantly draw over to the cage where the hamsters, gerbils and rabbits where, who were up for adoption.

There was a hamster in there, and we asked someone why it was in there.

Hamsters, and people had abused the poor little thing, and so we took her home. An employee had taken her home, and tamed her from a quivering wreck, screeching in a corner, to a friendly hamster.

She's now settled into her home, and is already becoming much tamer than she was in the shop.

So please, if you can adopt an animal. From Pets at Home or another certified adoption centre. They are not expensive and all the money goes to help other rescue animals and rescue centers.

There are loads of animals that need a home. It's such a good feeling to know that you've helped a poor defenseless animal. Please help.

Hope this has convinced people to adopt.

Thanks,

higginbotham

Claire_Bear

I don't see why they'd do a homecheck for these 'past their best' pets as they don't do them for their 'still cute enough for people to want them' animals, and surely there's more risk of these ones going to an unsuitable home as people will buy them on an impulse. It's a bit of a generalisation, and I know that most people who buy from places like PAH will look after their pets properly, and put a lot of consideration into it, but like someone mentioned it's a bit like a supermarket and a lot of people will buy animals and then not look after them properly. Calling it an 'adoption centre' to me is kind of insulting to those rescue centres who actually care about their animals and don't just view them as stock and are more about making profit than the welfare of the animals they sell. Personally I've had a few bad experiences of PAH (when we bought our hamsters from there first, we were told they were both male and ended up with two litters of babies, second hamster was dropped on the floor by the guy working there, dead fish in tanks etc) and I have the same objection to them as I do to petshops selling cats or dogs. Trying to guilt people into buying older animals, and calling it animal rescue is pretty annoying, as they're being rescued from Pets At Home themselves! I wonder what happens to the older 'past their cute' animals if they don't get 'adopted'? I really hope someone can come along and prove me wrong on all of this, and sorry for ranting on a bit, but having watched videos of similar US large chain petstores' warehouses where the animals for sale originally come from, I find it hard to believe that the company really cares for animals at all. All credit to them if the shop has a space for actual rescue centres though, at least they'll be getting some exposure

Sorry, just posted this an realised it's a bit TLDR haha

StaceyLouise_3

BridgetJones wrote: »

I have a problem with PAH calling it 'adoption' it isn't, it's still just buying animals the usual way but at a discount price. These animals aren't always rescue animals. My friend got her rabbit from PAH, she was the only girl left and her brother was in the pen next to her. We went back a week later for some bits and he was in the adoption bit with this notice 'Nobody wanted me because my brothers and sisters were prettier...'. :mad: :mad:

I got mine from RSPCA...please don't support PAH. They don't care about the animals just the profit.

Sorry but i work at pets at home and it is a charity ALL the money that is donated to take an animal is sent to headoffice and then split up between all different animal charitys most animals are in adotion because its owner is moving house or cannot look after it anymore. if one of our animals has been previously ill we put them in the adoption centre when it is fully better. The reason why the rabbit you are talkin about is in adoption because they needed space to put the new batch of rabbits out ... surly its better that the money goes to charity instead of the company? correct me if im wrong!

loulou123

I got my last guinea pig from the PAH adoption centre, and i paid a donation which went to a local rescue centre. My local store also has pictures up of animals from other adoption centres that need rehoming, which i cant see as a bad thing if it gets the poor animals more publicity.

Dave - the guinea pig was returned to the store as he was apparently unwanted (now that makes me mad) but he is lovely and very placid.

Personally i would never buy a "new" pet (sorry cant think of a better way of phrasing that) and always go down the rescue route.

faded_flowers

StaceyLouise wrote: »

Sorry but i work at pets at home and it is a charity ALL the money that is donated to take an animal is sent to headoffice and then split up between all different animal charitys most animals are in adotion because its owner is moving house or cannot look after it anymore. if one of our animals has been previously ill we put them in the adoption centre when it is fully better. The reason why the rabbit you are talkin about is in adoption because they needed space to put the new batch of rabbits out ... surly its better that the money goes to charity instead of the company? correct me if im wrong!

This.

If anyone's interested in truth instead of mud-slinging, PAH actually LOSE profit on every animal that is too old to sell. The animal is removed from the company's ownership and transferred to the charity's ownership. ANY money raised by the sale of that animal goes directly to the charity, and the charity splits donations out between local charities. If you actually go an look at your local store, you'll see a list of recent donations and which charities got them. PAH also pay to keep, clean and feed adoption animals (whether from the store or abandoned) up until they get adopted.

And yes, I work for PAH.