I could sit here & cry my eyes out right now.  I have just reported a pet shop i have mentioned on here once before.  I feel REALLY nervous for some reason.  But after the horse rescue here last week, i really can't ignore the gut feeling in my stomach.  But we went there on Saturday and it is obviously owned by "Pikey's", the number of birds of all wildness & exotisism is quite saddening, some with feathers missing, and the noise, oh my god the noise.  There was a porr little snuffly chinchilla sleeping and peeping on every breath out, and LIONHEAD BUNS!!  4 of the poor little things in tiny grotty cages barely room to stretch out comfortably. 

One was JUST LIKE BRIAN BUMSTAR as a baby, and they are selling these rabbits with TOTALLY the wrong age on the price sign.  Luckily the rats had the sense to curl up and sleep hidden from the horrible children who come in and tap on the glass.   But this one poor little white lionhead with black rings around his eyes was sat in filth (far too much filth to have been cleaned out that day anyway or the day before..IN A TINY CAGE), when i went back to see him he had moved, and was chomping on some hay, but i noticed he had a snotty / gunky nose and a massive fur matt by his ear, now clearly to me that screams out the welfare of the animal is not at the forefront of the nasty dirty moneygrabbing pikeypeople's minds.

I wont tell the boyfriend what i've done as he'll just roll his eyes and want to know why i involved myself.  The council and rspca said they would keep me informed (even if it is just me being a bit over sensitive at the mo what with aforementioned horse cruelty), so ....

i don't think that's a bad thing you did.  i doubt they'll stop selling animals, but it may improve the condition in which they're kept. 

Let us know if you get any feedback from the officials you lodged the complaint with.

Absolutely you did the right thing!!!!!!!!!!! Will whoever you reported them to take real action?  That's so awful.  I would have done the same thing. In fact should a rescue "rescue" them????

Great!!! Good girl!

i was watching the ASPCA rescue show on Animal Planet last night (i can never get thru an episode without crying... but i still watch) and this woman had pups that were severely malnourished.  turns out, she had surrendered another litter of pups to a vet not long before saying she "found" them somewhere.  they figured out she was lying and they were her pups.  it's people like that who abuse the system, that make it so difficult for folks who truly want to help.

Rachel that's exactly how i am. lol I always wanted to be a vet but i'd just be distraught at the negative side of that.

Well i had a message on my phone earlier from the RSPCA. She had just been to the shop and checked it out, in one way fortunate as no homeless animals to contend with, unfortunately the pikey bstrds are still peddling their wares! The RSPCA said they have advised the owners of relevant care and conditions, and it is now down to "ROYAL Windsor & Maidenhead Borough Council" to visit & issue the necessary licensing conditions again as they are a licensed premises. It makes me a tad cross! (I'll have to keep going back and keeping a check on the animals, and if needs be keep on reporting!!)  If it were one of the Queen's precious swans i'm sure it would be a whole different outcome!!!!  RAAR!!!

Defiantly no question about it, you did do the right thing and there should be more of it.

There are a lot of these places around but people just say that is disgusting but do nothing about it.

Animals will continue to suffer until people like you come to their rescue.

Spacehopper... what if in a month or two, one of your friends or acquaintances checked and decided to file a complaint?  would it carry more weight if more than one person was complaining (assuming you "omit the fact" that you know each other...)