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[sihayadesigns]

So I went to Walmart to buy a little hidey-hole for one of my bettas because my usual store was out. What I found horrified me. I found one guy with *no fins* His rot had eaten them away, and is at the perimeter of his body. To boot, there was a dead fly in his water. After having words with the manager and only getting 10% off, I brought him home. He's in a hospital bowl, and I added generous macaryn 1 & 2, aquarium salt, stress coat, and melafix. He doesn't move a lot and I fear he's gonna go in 48 hours or under. He looks absolutely awful.

His scales are a bit prominent, but from what I can tell, it doesn't look like dropsy, but his eyes are completely black and very flat. He's breathing very shallowly and can't seem to eat. He tried a pellet, and it popped right back out. He can't seem to get his mouth around it, though I suppose a will to eat is at least something. Before I leave in 5 minutes, I'll dig out a tiny bloodworm or two. That's at least a start. I do believe he might be blind. This is not a death sentence in and of itself, but it is an additional challenge.

However, he does have some white fuzziness around the perimeters where his fins used to be. I don't have any true fungus meds, so should he make it more than about four days, I will order some.

And oh, no one responded for *two* calls for assistance in the pet department. *TWO* I dipped him into a baggie myself (with Rac's assistance), and that was that. Fucktards!

This is absolutely morally reprehensible. I will be writing to Walmart just as soon as I have a spare 10 minutes.

Comments

[antigone921.livejournal.com]

No surprise. Walmart is the worst store you could ever choose to patronize.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

Poor fish. I'm glad you rescued him. I hope he'll recover. I'm sure he'll be happier with you than he was otherwise.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Animal Rights

[spyfunk.livejournal.com]

heh, now you know why I feel the way I do about pretty much everything having to do with animals and retail

[windiain.livejournal.com]

*fumes* It pisses me off what places like that do to animals. They shouldn't be allowed to sell pets! Hell, most petshops shouldn't. Grrrr. Snarl. Spit.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Poor little fishy!!!

[thetenthshadow.livejournal.com]

The only thing I ever needed to know about Walmart to describe its character boils down to them having half of their book section made of Christian reading and variations of the bible.
"wow," I thought. "That explains everything."

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Walmart is pretty notorious for shit like this. We found bettas nearly dead in Fla. and Cal.

And their plant dept. is no better. When my son was six, he wanted to buy some gardening stuff (he goes to a hippy dippy school, he can grow vegetables better than anyone I know and he's only 8 now) and he found all the shade plants dying in the full Fla. sun of the Walmart. I told him to complain to management. Took 20 min. to get anyone and they just shrugged. My kid moved all the plants. Assholes.

They're also supposedly rather anti-Semetic and mysoginist in terms of hiring and product practices. Needless to say, I don't shop there anymore.

eeerrgh!

[crushw-eyeliner.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was working at Target, that they brought out a line of fish in personal aquariums around Christmas time...it was just so depressing walking by them in the outside aisle. Target stopped carrying them after that Christmas, thank goodness.

[lm.livejournal.com]

I don't shop at Wal-Mart any more if I can help it, just 'cause, um, giant corporate monstrosity, which almost always equals evil.

But I stopped frequenting (or even looking at) their fish department long before I stopped going there at all. The one near me didn't sell bettas but they really did have a lot of messed up fish. The last straw was when I saw some fish eating a dead fish of their own species. They must have been absolutely starving to do that.

[khai]

Those bastards!