After thinking about it a while, I found this large pet store online located in my city that has a large salt water aquarium section and they seem to need an expert in that area. In a way I think this would be a nice change. It is something I could stick with and move up in, without having to bump elbows with others, and plus I can use my marine science knowledge to good use by helping customers. I will see the results right before my eyes unlike with my other jobs. This type of work will be similar to what I have done in labs in the past. It would also be a good job to where I can be more settled in the city I live in and have a good social life instead being away from my apartment for three weeks on a boat at a time. I could see myself having a job like this for a while and then perhaps cutting back on hours after having kids.

I am just worried that I am throwing my degree away. I am going to be embarrassed to tell my parents “I work in a pet store”. I am wondering if I am overqualified and if the pay won’t be good.

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Answer by Free spirit
Degree is worthless if you are unhappy. If you have happiness and peace in life the you’ve won most of the battle.
You can use your knowledge to help in many ways.. degree is not just for money. It is mainly for knowledge, but unfortunately it is seen as a means to an end. Depending on how you use your knowledge to help animals will say if you are throwing your degree away or not.

Good luck

Don’t you want to be able to adopt your next “best friend” without being deceived? Don’t you want your rights as a consumer respected? The power is in our hands in every choice we make as consumers. Never purchase puppies from pet shops or online trading websites. Instead choose from your local animal shelter, pound or rescue group it will be desexed, microchipped and ready for a happy life with you. For further information www.oscarslaw.org

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Answer by Kenya
Some Walmart sells betta fish, so does Petco, Petsmart and many others

Do any of your pets have a certain people food that they love and have to have?
Harley LOVES popcorn too! It’s actually what I ended up using to train him most of the time cuz he will do just about anything for some popcorn!
OH and Grapefruit! the second my hubby breaks open the peel on a grapefruit our dog is at his side with this look like “Uhhhh ur gonna share that riiiiight?”

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Answer by Dee
Yes my Husky, loves loves loves tuna. if he smells tuna there is no way your getting through the day without giving him some.

Awesome rainbow during storm at 9 pm August 13 2011

Also, someone asked if it would be available to see when I’m done, and I’ve decided to post it so you all may read it and give me your added input and thoughts to improve it if needed. It was hard to not repeat “Pet store” “Puppies” and “Puppy mills” along with other things, so hopefully it will turn out alright. It’s due tomorrow, so this is the last chance I have to change it.

Thanks once again, and here’s a link:

http://www.box.net/shared/p2dknsxnuh

The only way you can view it is to download it unfortunately, though. Hope it works.

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Answer by savethepitbulls67890
It won’t let me see it because of the program you used to type it I guess!

Is there anyway you could transfer it onto microsoft word and repost another link? I would really like to read it!

How is buying a dog from a shelter “saving a life”? Wouldn’t it not matter whether you got the dog from a pet store or a shelter, as long as it is brought and cared for? Isn’t buying a dog in the first place saving a life? Yeah, the dogs in the shelters may be euthanized but the ones in the pet stores will be too eventually or either taken over to a shelter and euthanized. So either way, placement doesn’t really make a difference. Also, does it really matter where the dog came from originally? Yeah a pet store dog may have (but not necessarily) come from a mill, but one in a shelter may have came from the streets or an abusive family. A place worst than a mill. And one in a shelter may have even originated in a mill before it got to the shelter. So should we only love and care for shelter dogs and leave those poor pet store dogs there to die? Is the being of a dog born in a pet store worth any less than one from a shelter? Is it really moral to ignore all the pet store dogs and talk down on them like their being is worth nothing and put the shelter dogs on a pedestal?

Should all the poor pet store dogs be ignored even though they have no control over where they were placed to be sold? Think about it? Also just because someone buys a dog from a pet store, that doesn’t necessarily mean they intentionally support mills. And in that state of thinking, wouldn’t getting a dog from a shelter be supporting euthanasia?

Like seriously, if I (for example) were to decide to buy a dog from a pet store, respect my decision and leave me alone. You yelling at me and cussing at me wouldn’t convince me to buy one from a shelter, it would convince me to the contrary. Next time you hear of someone buying a dog from a pet store, if you absolutely must, educate them nicely, (even though they weren’t asking for that info in the 1st place). Don’t yell and scream in caps like an immature individual calling them immature as if they must automatically know where the dog comes from. As if they purposely and intentionally decided to buy a dog from a pet store because they enjoy the fact the dog may have come from a mill, which isn’t the case. And if they do decide to buy the dog from a pet store, just leave it. You won’t convince them out of it especially in the rude manner a lot of you do in this section. I’m just telling you this because I have found this section to be one of the rudest on Y!A to some of the so called, less “educated people” or to people who you don’t agree with.

So other than that, why do you think that the being of a shelter dog is worth more than that or a pet store dog? How is adopting a dog from a pet store “saving a life”?
But if we were never to buy from pet stores, and the animals there were unwanted, the pet store animals would eventually be euthanized too. If not, they’d be taken to a shelter and euthanized. Also, if you saying buying from a pet store is supporting mills, isn’t buying from a shelter suppoerting euthanasia?
I never said puppy mills were just as bad as the streets. I used the streets as an example and in addition said a place worst than the streets. Also, not all pets sold at pet stores come from puppy mills. Some of the ones around my area come from shelters. Either way, you are ignoring innocent dogs.
@Rayven, I wasn’t even referring to your post. And I was talking about a cat, not a dog. Your answer was just one of the answers to remind me of some of the rudeness in this section that made me decide to post this question.
So either way, you’re either supporting death, or abuse. Which one is worst?

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Watch as owner Michelle Lyle makes homemade doggy treats for her four-legged friends!

This month we want to focus on the Delta Society Pet Partners Program and all that they do to help our community. Go to www.deltasociety.org for more information.

Question: Why do laws continue to allow pet stores to sell puppies?
Wouldn’t passing a law that prohibited the sale of puppies at stores make a huge impact in shutting down puppy mills? Why is this legal? You always hear politicans talking about animal rights, why don’t they do something about it and make it illegal for stores to sell puppies??!! And, why, when shows like Dateline & 20/20 do undercover investigations of these puppy mills, don’t they bring cops with them to shut them down, arrest and throw in jail the cold-hearted people that run them? Obviously it’s going to take more than telling people “don’t buy a puppy at a pet store” for this madness to stop. For every person who decides to not buy from a store, there is always somebody who will.

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Answer by tangerine
Unfortunately, people tend to be more concerned for human convenience, comfort, and profit than the rights and welfare of non-human animals. We’ve got to keep fighting to change this, though.