Czech_Meowt

liminal voidstress

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@crowtotheleft @Petco I did 🙏💜🥺 poor lil bbs. Thanks for caring 🫂

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

I rarely use this shit platform.

Today @Petco gave me a reason.

I found 40+ bettas stocked in plastic cups—many with low, yellow, visibly dirty water, with waste, slime & grime accumulated on the bottom.

Many fish were visibly in distress.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@AshleySavvie @Petco Beautiful fish. 💜 But customers having “great options” shouldn’t require dozens of bettas spending their lives shelved in cups clinging to life waiting to be chosen.

@Petco, give the fish great options, too.

https://t.co/c5UHp9opOL

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@AshleySavvie @Petco Not the case for all, sadly.

Not shaming buyers—the system needs to change.

If you love bettas, please sign & share:
https://t.co/c5UHp9opOL

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@AshleySavvie @Petco Glad these two survived & made it into a real home. 💜

Sadly, other bettas at @Petco remain sick & deteriorating in cruel cups.

Not shaming buyers—the system needs to change.

If you love bettas, please sign & share:
https://t.co/c5UHp9opOL

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

I donated $8 to the https://t.co/vvYtzLFv5q petition to end this negligent trade rather than buy the poor suffering fish. Please sign, share, and donate. 🙏

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@Petco

“The Health + Wellness Co.,” huh, @Petco?

These are living animals in your care—not disposable inventory.

If you can’t house, maintain & sell bettas humanely, stop selling them.

End the cup-based betta trade. Sign/share:
https://t.co/c5UHp9opOL

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@Petco https://t.co/c5UHp9opOL

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@exitstage_left_ @Petco I know right? It’s really a deplorable business model. I won’t be buying my catfood there anymore.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

And if bettas cannot be sold profitably while meeting their actual welfare needs:

STOP SELLING THEM.

A living animal should never become expendable inventory simply because replacing it costs less than properly caring for it.

#BettaFish #AnimalWelfare

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@Petco: Reduce stocking. Improve housing. Maintain water quality. Treat sick animals promptly. Reform the cup-based retail model.

If you profit from living animals, you’re responsible for their welfare while they’re in your custody.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

Employees: this isn’t an attack on you. You didn’t create the corporate business model.

But please advocate for the animals in your care: maintain their water, identify & escalate sick fish, and don’t leave visibly suffering animals on display without intervention.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

Fishkeepers & customers: check the bettas at your local Petco.

Photograph what you ACTUALLY see. Record store/date. Report poor conditions to management + corporate. Ask about health checks & water maintenance.

Hold @Petco to its own published standards.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

People are still fighting it.

A new Aug. 21 petition calls on Petco & PetSmart to phase out prolonged cup displays and establish better company-wide betta care standards.

SIGN/SHARE:
https://t.co/av9ZFoRMvv

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

This fight isn’t new.

In 2019, PETA reported sick, dying & dead bettas after visiting 100+ Petco stores and called on @Petco to end betta sales.

Years later, customers are still photographing the same problem.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

How many bettas does @Petco sell each year—and how many die?

How many become sick or die between breeder, distributor & store?

What mortality is treated as inventory loss while this remains profitable?

Publish the numbers.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

I wanted to take them home.

But “rescuing” them by buying them creates a grotesque dilemma: give a retailer money for an animal suffering in its care, and another fish can simply replace it as inventory.

So @Petco, I want transparency:

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

Why stock 40+ bettas in one store if they can’t all be maintained in healthy conditions?

Why keep this many living animals individually shelved in cups?

Stock fewer. House them in appropriately separated, heated, filtered & maintained systems where they can actually swim.

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

@Petco says EVERY animal in its care is required to receive an HOURLY health check, identified problems must be addressed immediately, and ill/injured animals receive special care.

How do the conditions in these photos comply with your own standards?

[Czech_Meowt @LCzech_Meowt]

Fish lying on the bottom. Floating abnormally or on their sides. Lethargic or struggling to swim.

Tattered, deteriorating fins. Fuzzy-looking growth around fins, faces & gills.

These aren’t decorations or disposable inventory.

They’re living vertebrates.