I cant believe what I saw yestarday at a pet store

[Monika]

I was in a pet store yestarday to buy green grass for my cats. I saw the guy who works there holding a mice upside down for its tail and he dropped it in an aquarium. I went to see closely what is happening. I saw a big frog was swallowing the mice and its head was still sticking of the frogs mouth. The mice was alive and was trying to escape. I got so sick to my stomach and sad I started yelling at the guy asking how can they do that. He said its a part of the food chain. I was so mad I started crying and left. I cried 1 more hour and I couldn't stop. This made me so weak at the moment. I really wish I had a power and put that guy in an aquarium in a snake's tank . I hate pet stores. I really want all the pet stores to be banned. I am so mad I hate all the pet stores owners and all the puppy mills owners ..

i will never ever buy anything from a pet store. I always buy my cats food at the vets or seldom at grocery stores... i probabbly had bought something in a pet store 2-3 times before. but that was it never anymore..

Please let me know if this is illegal in Canada and where can I report

[Nicole]

I'm right there with you I have never heard of a frog eating a mouse.....I thought that it was only insects as well. my question is what kind of frog was this?

[Yvonne]

Sorry to burst any bubbles, but there are several types of frogs that are carnivores and even cannibals. In Australia there is the Striped Marsh Frog.
Grass Frog (Litoria raniformis) - eat other frogs and actively hunt their prey by listening for their advertisement calls. A male frog calling within earshot of either of these frogs is likely to be eaten! It is sad, but a way of life for many animals. Chickens in fact are opportunistic as well, believe it or not they too will eat another chicken’s carcass.

[Lani]

Did not know that about Chickens...

[sissybearsheba]

this is sort of off subject, but, i think eating meat is wrong, and no one should kill to eat, we have the same teeth as other animal veggie eaters, not fangs, and we do not have the instinct to munch on a live cow in the middle of a feild. factory farming is creul and abusive and anyone who eats meat supports it. and it is abuse, they are animals, if someone does what factory farms do to cows, pigs, and the others, do it to dogs and other pets, that would be abuse. if i come off as trying to swicth people over, im not, im just mad.

[danny]

shut up!!!! why don't you study huh!?

[Lani]

and we do not have the instinct to munch on a live cow in the middle of a feild

And what were our "caveman" all the way up to our pioneering ancestors doing before factory farming? HUNTING and gathering...we were eating meat before factory farming was even a thought. It was survival and survival is instinctual. A balanced diet includes lean protein and veggies not just one or the other. Without balance your body isn't as healthy as it potentially could be.

[sissybearsheba]

well then i guess i shouldn't have the same dotor, because if what you think is true lani, then he lied and said im healthy, i think im in better health because of being a vegitarian.

http://www.goveg.com/naturalhumandiet.asp

The Natural Human Diet

According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history, humans are herbivores who are not well suited to eating meat.

Unlike natural carnivores, we are physically and psychologically unable to rip animals limb from limb and eat and digest their raw flesh. Even cooked meat is likely to cause human beings, but not natural carnivores, to suffer from food poisoning, heart disease, and other ailments.

People who pride themselves on being part of the human hunter tradition should take a second look at the story of human evolution. Prehistoric evidence indicates that humans developed hunting skills relatively recently and that most of our short, meat-eating past was spent scavenging and eating almost anything in order to survive; even then, meat was a tiny part of our caloric intake.

Humans lack both the physical characteristics of carnivores and the instinct that drives them to kill animals and devour their raw carcasses. Ask yourself: When you see dead animals on the side of the road, are you tempted to stop for a snack? Does the sight of a dead bird make you salivate? Do you daydream about killing cows with your bare hands and eating them raw? If you answered "no" to all of these questions, congratulations—you're a normal human herbivore—like it or not. Humans were simply not designed to eat meat.

[Lani]

Well I don't know what a "dotor" is, but I do work closely with licenced nutritionists and dietitians, in my field its essential. You have a lot to learn...I know more unhealthy vegetarians that think they are at peak health than any other category of person and that is a fact. Many were into body building and can't understand why they have lost all their lean muscle. Lean protein is the source of building lean muscle mass. As for your theory of people not being built to eat meat, I've heard it before from the people that want to brain wash the masses that this is true. Fact is we have been thriving on meat long before the commercial/corporate farms and even before Betty Crocker and the stove top. Turn off the PeTA daily brainwash for a moment. There was probably a time when your ancestors came across a dead carcass and did salivate and stop for a snack...we may have "lost" some of our more primitive drives, but not all.

[Lani]

Yes but meat eating is also on cave drawings as well...if you care to take a look. As well as hunting, as I stated earlier we are a hunting and gathering species. We are not souly carnivorous, but we are not souly herbavores either (if we were genetically our eyes would most likely be on the sides of our heads than in front as any other preditor species *you don't need depth perception to graze in the pasture*)...we do need a balanced diet...supplimenting was essential in those times when meat source was low or the hunt wasn't fruitful. Supplimenting today is often a lot of hype...you need this, no wait that one's bad, you need that...etc.

So I guess the big question for sissy is, since we don't drool over road kill...the last time you drove past a field of grass did you get the urge to stop and munch some turf?

[sissybearsheba]

lani where exacly is this cave drawing i would love to see the cave people gathering around an animal killing it, setting the table and digging in.

[Lani]

Gee I don't know Sissy, were those spears in the little humans on the wall's hands chasing the "deer" or whatever animal just little tickling sticks? LOL boy you need to wake up. maybe we were scaring the deer away from the other preditors!

[sissybearsheba]

well i think it is cruel beyond belief what they do to those animals, it's torture, not surviving, if we survived before betty croker, why can't we go back to it? if eating meat is right, why do the animals have to suffer for it, i for one wish that factory farms would shut down, but as long as people drive them on, they won't that's abuse im not saying you do it, but you pay to have it done, what do you think when you eat that steak, do you think about the animal you just payed to get killed for you, or do you just see survival, because fat, bloody, and greasy meat are so good for you.