Former worker of Ocean Odyssey: Ooo where to begin, one thing is for sure my fingers will be to tired to even finish my horrible experiences working there, but ill start. Sick /deceased animals- Yes some have come in sick, but also some become sick from improper care at the shop. Most of the time if an animal is sick and a worker trys to give it care he will get furious because it’s a waste of my money and your time working. He does not believe in Veterinarian care for “I am a retired MD and veterinarians are just people that couldn’t make it into the real medical field”. I myself have witnessed uncountable deaths that could have been preventable with simple vet treatment/proper care (which includes live animals being put in the freezer and upstairs into the hot water/furnace room). I myself have put approximately five to seven sick kittens in the furnace room, he tells you to “make sure you shut the door so customers can not see in”. Thirty minutes to an hour later they were all deceased and I was told to “put them in a plastic fish bag and take them to the dumpster”. Not positive of why they pass away within the same time frame but co-workers and I suspected some kind of carbon dioxide or monoxide leak, maybe lack of oxygen? When the door was opened after being closed there was a very strong gas smell. I have personally given deceased animals to the Saginaw County Animal Control and the only thing they could say “we have had many complaints and are currently investigating”. Puppies and kittens- He sells kittens/puppies as dewormed and updated on shots, which sometimes is not the case, most the time he would take in free strays, unwanted kittens and sell them the same day without any vaccines or being dewormed (same as with the puppies). At times there were no shots or dewormer in the store for new puppies to even receive these or we were told to not open a new dewormer bottle because its expensive. He forges handwritten vaccine papers saying your new furbaby has had these vaccines even if they havent. The puppies he picks up from the “Amish” are filled with fleas, half the time bones showing, filled with worms, for the first couple days their feces are a mixture of straw and worms. Some have came in missing body parts such as tails, toes, scars down legs and faces, fresh wounds, severe bloody stools ect. When puppies are sick his solution is always human Pepto-Bismol and Albon. He Diagnoses them with all having coccidia every time they look sick or have a problem. One puppy was on Albon for a few weeks and developed a bowed leg, he claimed it was tendinitis from the Albon and his solution was cod oil. I was told by Dominic that the puppy was sold and sent home with cod oil. Not once was any animal looked at by a veterinarian. In the summertime there is no air conditioning upstairs. All puppies and kitten are located upstairs and it is unbearable to be up there more than a few minutes, these animals spend twenty-four hours a day in unbearable temperatures. Small mammals/feeders- I wasnt aloud to clean mammals cages unless literally there were maggots in them because he would get mad for me using the extra corn cob, its to expensive. On occasions we had no corn cob left in the store to do so. Hamsters were sold as feeders for snakes, ect. Many killed or injured themselves do to fighting, not enough cages for us to separate. Feeder rats when I came back on Sunday would have massacred and cannibalized themselves from lack of proper care. He didnt mind if they died because that meant we finally had frozen rats in the freezer to sell (same with the rabbits). On plenty occasions there wasnt rat block and he used sample dog food as main source of food. Reptiles-Most reptiles housed upstairs need special uvb lighting daily, none have them this which leads to deficiencies, death, and sick reptiles. At the end of almost every week we ran out of crickets, which for most upstairs it is there primary food source. Same with vegetables for the herbivores I have personally went a few times to get from the grocery store. On holidays and closed days retiles are fully skipped. Don’t blame the workers- He himself worked almost every morning nine am to noon and Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all day. Which should give him enough time to asses what’s going on in the store, right? We were not veterinarians; as much as we all tried to save animals it is just impossible. We don’t have the funds or knowledge to do so and frankly that task should have never been put on our shoulders. He knows exactly what the conditions are and is just to cheap to do anything about it.
Posted on: Sun, 04 May 2014 01:04:28 +0000
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