OK, I usually don't get up on my soap box, but this time I am pissed. So I live in New York, recently bough a house in the mountains a little out of New York City. Well the local cities flooded this past week. There was a lot of destruction and displaced people and my heart goes out to them.
Mind you we all had warning this was coming, including local businesses. Most of them closed early and the employees headed for higher ground. Problem was the great folks at Petco decided to leave the animals in a building which is in a flood zone and was warned they would flood.
I attached the article below from a local newspaper. What they do not tell you is that about 100 animals died for no reason. And Petco knew this would happen and did nothing about it. I have always had pets and could not imagine having one die like this but for a store manager and employees to just walk away and let it happen sucks ass.
Petco Pets Die In Flood
Johnson City, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Some animals died in the flooding this week, trapped inside a pet store.
Petco admits that some animals died at the store off Harry L. Drive in Johnson City in the plaza next to Toys R Us. The area was under several feet of water.
Petco does not say how many animals died or what kind of animals they were.
It says animals that survived were later removed and taken to safe locations.
Despite highly publicized river flood warnings on Wednesday, on its facebook page, Petco says it had no reason to expect the store would be impacted by the flooding, even though the Susquehanna River runs not far behind the store.
Petco says a store associate checked the store late Wednesday night and there were no signs of flooding or a flood warning in effect.
It was underwater by Thursday morning.
Petco blames the tragedy, not on the river flooding, but on a backup in the sewage/drainage system.
Village Mayor Dennis Hannon say the company's logic doesn't hold water.
He says the area was inundated by floodwater from the Susquehanna River, and to blame it on a backup in the sewage system is absurd.