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WARNING - VIDEO IS SHOCKING. DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. IT WILL UPSET YOU.
Sent to RHU you from Shelter Doll: Worst pet handling ever. I know some people on Retail Hell have worked in pet stores. I hope this guy got arrested.
Anyone know where this video came from and what the story is behind it?
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The only thing he got right was the ferrets. I have a friend who is a ferret judge, the only way to stop them biting people is to gag them like that makes them think your meat will make them sick. As for the rest he needs seriously reprimanding and never allowed to do that show again.
Posted by: Restaurant_Slave | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 01:46 AM
you know what that is brilliant putting predators and prey together is always a good idea. It's especially great when none of them appear to be socialized with other animals.
Posted by: Skittles | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 02:40 AM
The really bizarre bit about it is that all the animals seem to be in pretty good health/shape; well, I'm not too good with telling with birds, but the mammals did. Given how incompetent the guy is, that does rather surprise me.. Hope he got a smack for being impossibly dumb.
Posted by: DeliGirl | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 05:10 AM
This is Mark Morrone (sp?), and he still has a show doing this type of thing on the Hallmark Channel. And he still does this crap of having 15-20 animals on the table in front of him during filming (only I assume that now the editors cut out anything like this).
Posted by: Andi | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 05:19 AM
What bugs me is the too small table, the unstable perches/boxes, too many animals to control, and the sheer irresponsibility of putting some species with others that can HURT them! Snapping turtles and puppies don't mix, that kitten possibly has nightmares from the big scary dog...
Also, at 2:15, you hear "Aww he's dead, Jim". Are these asshats JOKING about the death of a bird?
Posted by: ShelterDoll | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:18 AM
This looks to be a very old video of a guy who still has an animal-handling show on PBS (at least it was on PBS the last time I watched it). I didn't watch the video (I don't care to see a guy callously mishandle an animal to death, thankyouverymuch), but from the thumbnail that's my impression. My heart actually skipped a beat when I recognized him.
Posted by: Mollywobbles | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 05:14 PM
I didn't watch the whole video, just the ferret part, to see this "gagging", after the first comment, because, what?
I have four ferrets. They don't bite. I've never gagged them. The youngest one bit when he was a baby, for maybe two months? We gently trained it out of him, with simple scruffing, which is more natural for them. Nothing as crude as jamming your finger down the poor thing's throat. That sounds more like an abusive fast-track for people too lazy to put some time and patience into training a pet. Ferrets really seem like one of the most misunderstood pets out there.
As for the short bit of the video I saw of this guy, what a moron. He should not be handling animals, or informing people at all.
Posted by: Shlalg | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 12:22 AM
I was amazed none of those animals were seriously injured. What in the world was this guy thinking?
Posted by: Sandman2010 | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 04:26 AM
My boyfriend showed me this video recently. I was appalled! Even more disgusting was the fact that he told me someone from his work told him to watch it because it was "funny". I didn't find it funny in the least and want to find this guy and give him a good, swift kick to the genitals.
Posted by: AvidReader | Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 03:51 PM