Lady, it's just a darn mouse for crying out loud.....I'm outraged.

Holy Crap! I used to work for a pet store, and yea the mice are usually feeder mice and I dont care so much for them, but what he did he could get fired for!! Not to mention morality in front of customers and saying that was plain rude. If he works for a corporation pet store he will and should deffinately be repremanded for that action! Just because they are feeders, doesnt mean that the pet store doesnt look out for their well being!! It could still be sold or used for feeding the stores snakes. What an idiot!

That's just dumb. Not only is that a mouse that can be still used as food for the animals that eat mice regardless of having one less foot than usual, but to treat it like a waste like that in front of the little kid is even dumber. That guy should get fired, but make sure he gets reported to the manager so that he does get fired.

its really up sading thing when i saw that situation, that kind of person should not be hired to work in a pet store.i likes animal even if its just a mouse.i mean they are still baby and they arent capable to feed themselves yet.and what he did in front of customer is really not right specially in front of a little girl.i hope that man would get fired at once.not to mention what he say to you is also rude.geez i hope i would never seen those such a thing in front of my nose.

I have no words for what you witnessed. That is just atrocious and that poor child must have been traumatized! Unbelievable, I really am shocked. Hopefully the manager did something about that employee's behavior. It may just be a mouse, but it is still a life.....makes you wonder how the other pets are treated when no one is looking.

Actually, if it was a birth defect it could have lived. If one of the other mice bit it off, they probably would have just killed it later. But what he did and his callous attitude were inexcusable.

I hope that manager makes some changes pertaining to the employee procedures. That is rude and very insensitive. If anyone is going to work around children , they should be educated about appropriate behavior. I think the customers should be respected and that was cruel. Thats animal cruelty as well and there are a few orginazations who deal with things lke that.Im sorry but I would have fired him for that.

I would have thrown the biggest temper tantrum the world has ever seen if I saw that happen in front of me. I would have exploded like a bomb! I would have cussed him so many ways that his ears would catch fire. I would have complained to the manager and I more than likely would have dug the pinky out of the garbage. No way! That is horrible thing to do. "It's just a mouse" What? It is just another living breathing creature like that idiot.... Sad

The pet store employee missed an excellant opportunity to teach the little girl about the real facts of life. That would be concerning predator and prey, eating or being ate! It was wasteful to just throw away a perfectly good mouse. Would not the snakes have enjoyed that which he so carelessly threw away?

that's horrible!! i love baby mice, they are so adorable! I saw something when I was younger they tore my heart apart. It was the first time I had ever felt pain for an animal's well-being and to this day, I tear up thinking about it. My family owns chicken houses, so obviously we set rat traps and things because the rats get in and eat up the materials that the houses are built with. So we have a lot of mice. Well, one day I saw a little pink and black speckled pile on the floor of the chicken houses when we didn't have any chickens. As I got closer, I started crying to see that it was a litter of baby mice, tee-tiny baby mice covered by ants!! I don't know how the ants got to them, but the baby mice were wiggling around in pain from the ants biting them. I couldn't figure out anything to do without the ants attacking me as well, so I just ran away crying. I was like..9 when I saw this. it broke my heart. But yeah, what the store employee did was horrible. If they are going to dispose of the mouse, they should do it privately, not in front of customers and certainly not in front of children!!! I thinkt hat employee was just trying to be funny, thinking everyone would get a kick out of it. He was wrong.

Did you manage to fish it out or did he kill it? It could have lived if it's only problem was a missing foot. Everyone is right, there is no way he should be working in a pet shop and he should be sacked. It's really shocking behaviour and i'm not surprised everyone was upset.

Oh that is just TOOOOOOO awful! Poor mouse! And poor little girl who saw that!!!! Ok, yes, the mouse probably wouldn't have lived, but it should have been left with its mother to at least have the comfort and warmth of its mother and siblings for its last hours!!! (As all of us would want for ourselves I'm sure!) Just because it's smaller than humans doesn't mean it can't also feel pain and emotion! Even if it was pet shop policy to just throw it in the bin, HOW can somebody do that in front of a child???!!! I think that if it was a small child, the employee should have put it back with its Mom and assured the child that the mom would look after it and see that it was okay. For an older child maybe the employee could have gently explained that there wasn't much that we could do, but it would be happy just being near it's Mom for the moment. How awful - I sincerely hope that employee was put right by the manager!

Are you serious? Who does such a thing? I am really stunned just by reading this, let alone witnessing it in real life. To be honest I do not like mice and rats and those types of little scary animals, but to treat them like that, like trash? Uh uh no way. Especially a little tiny pinky one. Just leave it with it's mommy. That guy should be fired, if I was the manager I would have definitely fired him as soon as possible. That is no way to treat an animal or your customers for that matter!

Oh my goodness. I truly cannot believe that audacity of certain people. It is amazing how some people treat animals like they are 'things' and not living, breathing, feeling creatures. I'm so sorry that this happened in front of a child, and that poor mouse.. even if it wouldn't have lived anyway, it was still so cruel of that man to do what he did. I can't believe that he would do that right in front of that woman and her daughter, and in front of you too since you saw it as well! Sheesh. This makes me really sick as well. No animals should be treated this way, no matter how big or small. All living creatures are worthy of more respect than that! ^_^

how cruel and insensitive! This employee needs to be reprimanded or better fired. A pet store is usually a place with a lot of children as well as all sorts of animal lovers. The little girl probably feels horrible because she is the one of noticed the mouse and then witnessed its "disposal". The mouse could have been easily put into a different enclosure and left alone. I don't know if he would have survived or not since he was missing a foot but still--give him a shot at life. What if someone with only one leg had come in there looking for a pet mouse?

Oh my! in front of the child who noticed that the mouse is disabled? i mean, she meant them to care for the mouse and not to throw it away!

What a horrible horrible person. How could he do this? I mean, I know that mice are generally not liked as animals but at the end of the day it is a sentient being, it can feel pain pleasure and a whole range of things. It really does make you wonder what goes on behind closed doors? A lack of respect for life such as this is tragic. Hopefully not reflective of pet stores in general, but somehow I think this is a vain hope.

How cruel and insensitive! This employee needs to be reprimanded or better fired. A pet store is usually a place with a lot of children as well as all sorts of animal lovers. The little girl probably feels horrible because she is the one of noticed the mouse and then witnessed its "disposal". The mouse could have been easily put into a different enclosure and left alone. I don't know if he would have survived or not since he was missing a foot but still--give him a shot at life. What if someone with only one leg had come in there looking for a pet mouse?

This was really a cruel act to just throw the poor mouse in the trash barrel just because it was missing a leg. What impact will this have on the impressionable mind if the 7 yr old?? These animals are small and do not talk, that does not mean you just throw it away in a freakin' trash barrel. I mean what could be worse than that?? Imagine if someone picks you up and throws you in trash . Why? Because you're handicapped! This is outrageous..Don't think anything can be done about it though.

This man should not be working in a pet store. He obviously has no regard for pets. Secondly, he seems to have little regard for teaching children to appreciate all forms of life and to treat pets lovingly. Thirdly, the lack of people skills and business savyy. You don't do these types of things in front of patrons. You wait until no patrons are present!

Wow, if someone had done that in front of me, I think I would have started crying my eyes out. I love animals, no matter what they are. As long as they can breath, as far as I'm concerned, they should be given the chance to.