Petco store in Denver lacks sales for caged birds

For immediate release:
September 23, 2021

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Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382

Denver “Customers passing by Petco’s Colfax Avenue store are courtesy of PETA, which posted a message right in front of the store:“ Never Buy Birds. ” The ad can also be seen in two other locations nearby.

“Life in a cage is not life for birds at all, and many scream, pluck feathers and go crazy with the stress of captivity,” says PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman. “PETA encourages shoppers to stay away from Petco until they stop selling wildlife as if they were nothing more than home decoration.”

In nature, birds sit on the tops of trees, splash in lakes, soar high above the ground, look after companions, feed their young and communicate with other members of their often large flock –none of this they can do in captivity… The pet industry raises birds in filthy factories, steals chickens from their mothers, clips their wings to keep them from flying away, and sells them and cramped cages to buyers who are often unwilling to provide them. decades the specialized care they need, with the result that many of them languish and even die from neglect.

PETA – whose motto, among other things, is that “animals do not belong to us to be used for entertainment or abuse in other ways” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human superiority. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…

PETA advertisements are posted at the bus stop at 3725 E. Colfax Ave. (directly opposite Petco), at 1522 Josephine St. and at 2300 E. 17^th NS.