Petland Discounts - Flushing

Ok variety

Good place for quick shopping for pretty food, but the place is falling apart and manager needs to invest in new renovations and signage. The place is on Main Street, a major business district in New York City, but the store looks like a third world hovel.

The front display of this store held a horrifyingly trapped handful of baby parakeets in a hamster cage completely sealed with hamster bedding on the bottom and a singe ladder as a perch. I would not recommend anyone to shop at this store in fact i encourage you to complain about it because that is pretty much animal abuse. Parakeets are smart birds and that experience of being trapped in a plastic hamster cage with oncoming traffic from the street is terrifying to small birds even those that are social. I even went a couple days later to the same location and saw the same birds were still there, all fighting for food that was placed in small toy bathtubs on the bottom of the cage. Their water was in similar tubs and had pieces of bedding in it and was unclean. Being an owner of two parakeets, this was horrifying to me and so i do not recommend anyone to do their shopping there for any animal needs. There was a bunny in the back tucked away in a corner in a cage too small, and an array of birds overcrowded in cages. The last time i went, it was a few minutes till closing and the worker did not make any attempt to remove the birds from the hamster cage or even cover them for the night. This is very harmful and shows the employees have very little knowledge of animals and animal care and probably tell customers the wrong information that can lead to the premature death and traumatization of small animals that can be easily prevented. Parakeets are in no way dumb, and they do carry memories and it will be very difficult for them to become accustomed to a regular cage or even being adopted by parents, which leads them to be more susceptible of being abandoned and misunderstood by prospective owners.