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Animates Tower Junction - what is going on !?!


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Dropped in to buy cat biscuits last Saturday and was horrified to see a thick carpet of cyanobacteria throughout most of the tanks, dead fish lying everywhere, and a poor little Oscar with horrible fin rot. The staff don't seem to give a rats... what is going on ?!?

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Animates tower junction has been having heater problems lately( what a lady that works there told me). Apparently the fuse keeps blowing or something- Cant remember exacly what she told me.

One bung heater in a system that size would have a negligable effect - they are idiots! If I buy and 'fix' the Oscar, will anyone in Christchurch give it a home?

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By buying the oscar you'd be giving them money and supporting their shitty practises! I feel bad for the fish, but you don't wanna encourage them. This is disappointing, I'd noticed that all the Animates seemed to be improving in regards to tank conditions. Oh well, I'll just continue to not buy things from them.

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The Animates chains have been sold to Jansens who in turn have been bought by PetBarn Australia with the helping hand of Masterpet. As Animates were outbid for Jansens by the "consortium" they really had no way to expand anymore up in Auckland.

Look at this way if Animates had the Jansens chain then they would have enough stores to import bulk product from overseas eliminating some NZ wholesalers = no sales.

The trend overseas now is for a company to import and then sell through there own retail stores.....they get a bite of all the apple.

You may find in the future, maybe the "consortium" will have many large format stores in Aust and NZ and possibly then list on the stock market for the owners to "get out" with plenty of money.

You find overseas because of the large format stores, the small normal pet shop fails to exist, unless it specialises and the large stores charge what they want ala Wal Mart scenario.

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the SPCA do act on pet shops, but it is hard for them to find a "Qualified" person to inspect the fish, birds or other unusual animals

obvious cases of neglect can be spotted by a layman, but if that is explained away by a "power cut" or other occurence beyond their control they cannot act

if enough people complain over a long time period action can be taken

a notice to clean up your act will be given and if this is done in a specified time period then no further action can be taken unless these are repeated offences

bring it to the attention of the shop owner or manager and even a written complaint to head office can have a better result

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The Animates chains have been sold to Jansens who in turn have been bought by PetBarn Australia with the helping hand of Masterpet. As Animates were outbid for Jansens by the "consortium" they really had no way to expand anymore up in Auckland.

Look at this way if Animates had the Jansens chain then they would have enough stores to import bulk product from overseas eliminating some NZ wholesalers = no sales.

The trend overseas now is for a company to import and then sell through there own retail stores.....they get a bite of all the apple.

You may find in the future, maybe the "consortium" will have many large format stores in Aust and NZ and possibly then list on the stock market for the owners to "get out" with plenty of money.

You find overseas because of the large format stores, the small normal pet shop fails to exist, unless it specialises and the large stores charge what they want ala Wal Mart scenario.

None of that excuses their apalling attitude toward animal welfare - all of those organisations have the financial clout to maintain proper systems and train staff, in fact given the investment you would have thought they'd have to make a good job of it. Very sad to see that they are actually now worse than a lot of the poxy little stores that make me cringe every time I go near them. I'm not going back to any Animates, nor will anyone else I know.

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Be interesting then to see how this big new Store of theirs in Albany turns out. Maybe i can get a car battery, groceries and fish all at the same time.

Does anybody buy fish from Animates now other than Tues-Thurs. Any other day and they just aren't competitive.

Pricing Cardinals at $10 each when they are $3.50 wholesale. Sounds like they are trying to make up for all the fish they kill.

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basically its because they dont really care about their fish, seems to be their lowest priority so they dont bother hiring or training people so they know wht they are doing. Silly dogs and cats etc putting fish on the bottom shelf, not that dogs and cats are bad but you know what i mean

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The animates here in Palmy has a massive staff turnover. Seems whenever I go in there theres a couple of new faces. They can't hold down staff at all.

Had a manager early last year that was fantastic with the fish, but she left due to conflicts in interest and it went downhill from there....

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Well, from what I know, Animates hire salespeople, not pet people.

I think it's funny playing silly buggers with some of the salespeople by asking questions I already know the answers to. That is... when I can even get someone to talk to me... which is about 5% of the time...

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