I've meant to add these for a while, with thoughtful comments perhaps. Mostly I took these photos because I am confused by the way the rest of the world sells large domestic animals like they're selling hamsters. On the banks of the Seine, Quai de Louvre is a road on which almost every other shop is an 'Animalerie'. Some are more salubrious than others, but in many there were still metre long cases of about 20 rabbits, for example. Many of the smaller darker shops had signs stating 'no photographs' and I was fairly sure this wasn't so as not to disturb the animals. One such shop whose name I didn't write down had weaned Alsatian puppies and a fully grown something living in a 'bigger' cage, looking like they'd probably like a walk somewhere that wasn't the busy road outside. One shop was (slightly) commendable with it's larger, clean cages and slightly interested staff. They even allowed photographs, which is were the dog photos below were taken. Even so, the system confuses me and it's disappointing that it's so popular. Having animals sold via a third party will hardly habituate them to a home environment. They are taken away from their mothers, when they are weaned and allowed to be sold, but they are not immediately put into a training environment. Left with other puppies for company instead, what interaction do they have? People ogling through the glass? I wonder how many people are satisfied with the pets they get from these shops.
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