Please, can we refrain from turning this thread into a PETA flag waving? The majority of folk on this forum think PETA are terrorists and some of us know from first hand experience how biased and "edited" their presentations are, so please, let's not continue this discussion.
Let's be even handed in how we deal with PETA posts, though. There have been dozens of posts in the last month discussing PETA -- many with links to their material. The material referred to in this post was on the major networks' national news programs. The text in that link was from a newspaper. This information was certainly less biased than what the moderators have allowed by many different people in other threads just in the last month.
Also, once again, this is a thread about chins Linda, not hamsters. Please try and keep it on topic.
This is not turning into a hamster thread. Chins for Petsmarts (including ours in California) are trucked in from that massive Texas distribution facility. That's fact. And I'd be very surprised if some of the ranchers that people on this list are buying from at shows or otherwise aren't also selling their chins into that facility for sale into Petsmarts around the country. Petsmart sells large numbers of chins every year throughout their chain store system. People should understand what they're supporting when they buy from Petsmart.
Linda