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jewishshepard:

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veganpsychic:

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I’m forming a squad, who else is down to wear trenchcoats and cargo shorts  with sandwich bags sewed all over the inside and then liberate the Walmart bettas by pouring them into our many pockets and escaping the store undetected as human aquariums

liberated bettas will be sewn their own cargo shorts and given appropriate training so the cycle can continue

VIVE LA WALMART BETTAS

WHAT DOES WALMART DO TOO THEIR BETTAS??

SADNESS WARNING

They treat them like product so they’re lined up on the shelf beside aquarium decor in those little cups, and the only ones to take care of them are employees with no training since they aren’t a pet store.

 So in most stores you see sick or dying fish and ones in dirty, half full cups. Walmart doesn’t care, tho, because a betta costs them maybe 80 cents and they only sell for 4-5 dollars, so they more than make up that product ‘damage’ in profits from impulse bought fish and gimmick betta tanks etc. 

I’ve been to some stores where they’re taken care of, but the only reason is because there’s an employee who already had some knowledge that goes out of their way to look after them.

It’s not the employees fault, the store is just a really shitty environment for fish . It’s heavily air conditioned, employees tasked with them are usually busy with their actual jobs, the shelves allow them to see each other at all times, and most people who buy them (who aren’t going there specifically to rescue one) are impulse shoppers who don’t know how to care for bettas, so they end up in bowls or vases. But Walmart sees them as disposable because they aren’t particularly expensive, so they don’t really care.

I reblogged a petition earlier to ban live fish sales from their stores, I’ll reblog it again in case anyone wants to sign!