Petland Closes Over Rabbit-Drowning Photo
Published: August 5, 2009
Updated: August 6, 2009
AKRON, Ohio—Petland Inc. has closed an Ohio franchise store over a Facebook photo showing an employee who brags about drowning two injured rabbits.
Chillicothe-based Petland, which closed the Akron store Wednesday, calls the incident “horrific mistreatment” and says it prohibits employees from euthanizing any animal.
The store’s animals are being moved to another store.
Liz Carlisle, 20, of Ravenna, has been charged with two counts of cruelty to animals is to scheduled for arraignment on Aug. 17.
Senior Humane Officer Tim Harland of the Humane Society of Greater Akron says Carlisle told investigators it was her decision to drown the rabbits.
A woman answering at a phone listing under Carlisle’s address says she doesn’t live there. No attorney is listed in her court records.
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the real problem with petland isnt their mistreatment of animals, its people BUYING THEM! the same puppies they charge about $1000 for (as an example, we will say a chihuahua) you can buy from a BREEDER, meet the breeder, meet the “parents” and see the enviorment they came from for about $250-$300. trust me, i’ve bought 3 from 3 different breeders. do your homework people and save yourself some SERIOUS cash while getting a superior pet.
The thing is…injured or not, this girl and her manager weren’t doing ANY of this to be humane to these animals. They took pictures of this because the manager thought it would make him/her look cool on the internet, and she did it because she needed attention or affirmation from her manager. Their low self esteem issues WELL overstepped the boundaries here. It screams ‘frat boy’. The fact that the rabbits were injured is only an excuse for these two. She knew it wasn’t her job or her place to do this and any PET STORE manager who would encourage this behaviour is just an @55hole. You don’t put a butcher in charge of the petting zoo!
Snipe hunting . . . now I remember those days. I thought it was just a thing my father did to torture me! It was all in good fun though. Unlike killing these two poor rabbits the way they did. How senseless.
On the farm grandma raised rabbits for food and sold some for that also, she could give a “rabbit punch” you would have to see, very effective. What’s the fuss, INJURED rabbits? Call Elmer Fudd. What’s next, gona hang kids hunting snipes? Yeah, all you stone throwers lining up for the first to throw.
Not surprising that the rabbits were already sick—Petland has a horrible reputation regarding the condition of their pets for sale. Obviously they enjoy hiring people who are “sick” also. If the rabbits were indeed that sick, then I agree, the store should have paid for their care, or had them put down the right way. I can’t stand hearing stories of animal mistreatment, and it seems as if there have been a lot of them lately.
This was in poor taste. If the rabbits were in bad shape than the store should have paid for their care or paid for them to be put down. If, for some unknown reason, she had to put the rabbits down, she should have done so in a better way.
Have you seen the picture of Ms. Carlisle holding those poor rabbits? Why didn’t it accompany this story! Ms. Carlisle and her coworker/manager that took the picture are deranged monsters and they should both be locked up either in prison or a mental hospital. I’m surprised but grateful that Petland closed one of it’s horrible puppy mill stores.
Petland is already notorious for getting their puppies from disgusting puppy mills, so I’m not surprised their employees are now drowning animals.
I won’t set foot into a Petland store. I hope they all go out of business or are closed down.
Geesh, if you’re going to kill them, at least do it quickly and not make them suffer. Drowning doesn’t take that long but it’s not as quick as other means.
Here come the “eye for an eye” outrage.
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