HOW I WENT VIRAL ON TIKTOK SAVING LIVE ANIMALS WHILE DUMPSTER DIVING!!! 

I’ve worked at Petsmart before and I don’t even know how this happens. We float the bags to acclimate them and then put them in the tanks and break down the boxes before they go in the recycling. If they come in dead we still open it to make sure we aren’t throwing away live fish. It’s pure laziness on the employees end to put them in the trash like that. Also I don’t even know how animals get in the trash in different videos I’ve seen because if for some reason an animal dies we have to bring it’s body to the vet and they dispose of them there. Plus we have to keep track of animals and if one was missing they’d know because they have to do animal counts and report it. So these employees are deliberately doing this. So disgusting and shame on management for doing nothing.

Be careful to anyone considering doing this! I worked at a petsmart (they were never guilty of this) but when fish did come in I’d say there was a 50% chance they were sick in general. Especially if the other fish are dead in the bag. I rescued so many deformed/sick fish and it messed my tanks up for months even after I quit the job. We would often get ich, fungus, worms, parasites.

You’re an absolute treasure for doing this. Thank you for sharing.

This is the best way to save animals from horrible pet stores, without actually supporting the pet stores by paying with money.

If this is still happening, the store should be notified (and I'd love to go dumpster diving sometime with you lol)

IM GOING TO PETCO TOMMOROW FOR BIRDS- IMMA SHOW MY MOM THIS

I really like your videos Keep it up i hope we can be friend💛 watching from philippines💜💜

This video makes me want to CRY!!!!! These big corporate stores are truly disgusting. You are such an amazing person for saving all these innocent lives - especially the one with swimmers belly! That is an absolute miracle and I LOVED that ending clip. Thank you for shedding light on this horrible topic. Hopefully things will change for the better. Happy Diving!

Some crickets are invasive to North America so they should NEVER be thrown out (because they're living creatures), but checking before releasing is important too 🤔

As a fish lover, this hurts my heart. Even the crickets don’t deserve this

how could you literally THROW AWAY a life? They have a soul, they feel pain and fear! Thank you for saving these creatures

I just wanted to shed some light on saving these fish. If you find then in blue water, it's methalyne blue (it calms the fish but is used for it's antibacterial and antibiotic properties. ) The other dead fish are excreeting ammonia which will burn the gills of any living fish. So right away, you want to get them out of the bag into fresh water...even a water bottle ASAP. Next you'll want to add an airstone if you have one. And then add some almond leaves aka catapa leaves which will sooth any wounds and their burnt gills. The reason these fish are sadly getting tossed, is because the lazy employees see a sick fish and a few dead ones...assuming they'll all die (and they may still die Even If cared for properly). All that said, it is sad to see and not only is it cruel, it is against company and usually state/city laws against not disposing of them properly.

As a veterinary professional of over 20 years, I thank you precious girl! Your kindness is so beautiful. I realize I'm "late to the game", as I'm just now seeing this video, but I love you for what you've done ❤️

This comes down to the individual store and their management/employees. Not all petsmarts/petcos do stuff like this, speaking from experience working at one of those chains. To me, it looks like whoever was doing those fish shipments sees one or two dead fish and throws the whole bag out, which is NOT how it should be done.

They’ve been with dead fish for too long and they don’t want to risk them bring diseases into the other tanks and killing off other fish :( but still its so easy to put them into an individual tank and treat them before selling ;(

This is the exact reason I stopped shopping at Petsmart Years ago. There is too much animal cruelty going on behind closed doors especially from the animal farms they buy from.

I used to get a call from a former employee when they would throw away sick hermit crabs. She would hide them in one box for me to pick up. I have a huge crabitat with everything they need so I would take them home. Only lost 2 total out of 34 that I picked up!

I’m disgusted that they get away with this. Good on you for calling them out. Love from uk. Good luck

Thank you...I used to work at Petco and would usually dumpster dive after work bc I knew the management/coworkers threw away live animals pretty much regularly...still have fish and a hissing roach from when I worked there 3-4 years ago

I can’t believe they would do this 😭I mean they are just fish but no animal should have to be dumped in the trash ALIVE! Thank you for saving them!

I worked at PetSmart for almost 3 years and this is not how we disposed of any animals alive or dead, this is not the corporate practices on how to deal with these things and when they got sick we tried to rehab them and adopt them out so not sure why some stores are doing this but looks like lazy workers

This is an individual store issue. I’ve worked at Petsmart. We took a lot of time to care our sick fish in quarantine tanks and took all dead fish to the vet for disposal. This is absolutely abhorrent!

I used to work at a petsmart but quit after being told taking a chameleon to a vet was ‘too much paperwork’ when it had a prolapse and that the death paperwork was ‘much easier’ … they wanted me to either let the chameleon ride it out or to euthanize it myself because it would be more work to take it to a vet. It’s obviously not all workers or stores but there’s enough that are that way for it to require uproar.

I'm a dumpster diver to ...can't believe they do that so sad ...u got me checking them now hopefully since it's on social media they'll stop doing it

ALERT 🚨 IF YOU DO THIS DO NOT PUT THE FISH THAT GOT THROWN OUT IN YOUR OWN TANK WITH YOUR OWN FISH THEY ARE MOST LIKELY BEEN THROWN OUT BECAUSE THEY WERE REAAAAAY SICK. but good vid🦀🐳🐬🦞🐟🦐🐠🦑🐡🐙🦈🐋

I already had my doubts about petsmart and petco but this is disgusting. I'm never patronizing their stores EVER again. Thank you for making me aware of this. This is gross.

Every living being has the right to live. Thank you for helping.

Good for you for saving them and making this known

Just so you know it is safer to keep the bages closed if you don't know how long they have been in there. I also hope you are quarantineing everyone. These pet stores get so many diseases and parasites

We don’t throw away live animals. I work at petsmart. I understand the crickets but we only throw away dead fish or snails. All other animals get cremated. You either found a bad store or bought them yourself. They also aren’t dumped in bags like that. Why would you bag a dead animal in water? You don’t.

I work at a chain store and I can honestly say This type of stuff happens because of poor store management and the state the store is located. In my state this kind of stuff is unheard of because luckily my state is extremely strict about the disposing of animal remains since it’s an environmental hazard if said animal isn’t actually DOA like the ones found in the video. Boxes of live fish like that in a dumpster is a big no no with the Department of agriculture which would be 100% notified if bags of fish where to be found in the trash at the sorting facility’s. All fish that come into a store need to be cut out the bag, water needs to be drained and fish placed into a tank or a black bag for those who are DOA which are eventually cremated. It doesn’t matter if all fish are DOA we can’t just through them in the trash like that they must be disposed of properly and with respect. Shame on the employees responsible for having such little care / respect for the lives of the animals they are supposed to be caring for IDK how someone could consciously throw out animals to die horribly.

This seriously broke my heart. I watched in pure shock and once the video ended I actually started crying. I can't imagine the pain those little fish felt. I can't believe someone can so easily throw them away. But as horrible as it is, this is something that unfortunately won't change any time soon. Thank you for repeatedly going to save them ❤

Oh my gosh! I have watched a few of your videos so far and wondered when there would be one with evidence of animals! These companies are DISGUSTING! They HAVE made public statements about this over the years and it was all denying this PERIOD. I found all sorts of pets myself at my hometown Petsmart in Merced, CA when I still lived there about 10 years ago. Sick!!! No doubt they still continue to do it.

You speak for those who can't sweetie! God bless you.

I had no idea they do this. Thank you for bringing awareness and saving lives 🙏

I'm glad u are trying to help keep these poor living beings alive. Hopefully corporate will get wind of this and get a true system in place to not let this continue to happen. To me this is similar to when pet stores carried puppies, kittens, and other live animals that were from pet mills. A stop was put to that for the most part and they need to put a stop to this also! Thank you for sharing! And for your caring heart!

Please don’t ever stop what you’re doing! I really appreciate you exposing what they do!

Enlightening… cruel behavior from corporation that markets themselves as having loving animal behavior. It changes my opinion of this corporation

I wish people got up in arms like this over the fact that there are very few situations where a Petsmart employee can refuse a sale to someone where the animal is clearing going to a shitty home where it will suffer and/or die. I've had people literally say to my face they don't care if it dies cause its just a fish and my manager still let the sale through. Same story different script.

No I’ll be the first to say when I used to clean up I worked at every pet store and I used to clean up their cages that was all my job was as a cashier and a caretaker all I did was clean the tanks there was somebody above me who actually took care of the animals, But it’s very hard to clean up dead crickets and not accidentally get a few I always do my best but it happens and even I get squeamish at the side of them but I still try LOL there’s absolutely no excuse for throwing away a LIVE Fish, my manager at petco in mi was very loving of all animals big &small She would have these peoples heads whoever did this

PETSMART DOES NOT DO THIS PURPOSELY I’m 99.90% sure these fish were thrown away accidentally or by a noobie (or in training before being certified) that isn’t being monitored and thinks less of the animals life to just throw away. Petsmart employees are in love with animals and would obviously never do this on purpose. They have quarantine rooms designed to keep sick fish and checked up twice a day every day. Please, tell the manager if you see this happening. They are strict on their care for animals and hate when shit like this happens. They have the authority to fire any employee doing their job incorrectly and poorly. The blame is on you for not addressing it just as it is to the horrible employee that doesn’t seem to be monitored for their one job to care for fish. Am I right or am I right? Don’t be scared to SPEAK UP or to ASK FOR HELP. Don’t dwell in doubt and create a video to get you views. They will often times give you the fish if it seems in very bad shape. JUST ASK! I work at a Dallas location and have never seen anything like this. We have a delivery person that treats well our packages of live fish and reptiles. Can’t speak for other stores, but I do speak for the employees. Some make terrible mistakes, but they’re the .001% that attract negative attention to Petsmart as a whole and that turns to unnecessary hate towards the employees at a local level. Smh 🤦🏽‍♂️

I love that u saved the fish but try switching to a natural aquarium it helps them a lot it’s just disgusting that They throw away an entire life just cause they didn’t want it anymore

You’re an Angel, Thankyou for doing this! I am SO DISGUSTED that they do this?! 😭😭

Way go girl glad your doing your part. Even if one fish at a time..thanks

Fish that are suspected of disease are often thrown out because diagnosing fish is hard and expensive

This is truly disturbing. Thank you for bringing attention to this issue and saving the fish. 🐠❤️

That was cool of u keeping those fishes live and saving them to ❤️🧡❤️🐠🐠🐟🐟🐠🐠

Pets mart should stop selling live fish

Absolutely heart breaking- bless you for helping all these poor babies 🥺

What Petsmart is doing is animal cruelty they can go to jail for that and their business would be shut down if they keep this up

what a sad video how cruel they should be prosocuted for this,your amazing sweetheart xxxxx

Thank God for you saving these guys. I'm so angry at those places and this literally has me in tears. God bless you, seriously you are an Angel!!

Glamour DDive - just a few points which I hope will help in the future. Removing the dead fish from the at home set up,, as quickly as possible will reduce ammonia which is deadly. Some fish shipping bags are best left unopened until you can remove the fish as opening the bag converts exhaled waste products into a more deadly form. If you do this often enough (you are amazing by the way) you could set up a small portable container with a battery powered air stone to drop fish into. Float the bags for a while to temp acclimate.

This is such a good thing to do, firstly you are saving an animals life, and secondly it's free to get the fish

The little yellow betta is so precious. 🥺

I wish bigger creators would also speak about this but thank you. I can't even explain how mad this makes me. Some people even find parakeets, birds, and hamsters. They deserve worse than just getting shut down. This is not and never will be OKAY😡.

So sad how they just throw them in trash they are living and have feelings to I'm so glad you help them you have a good heart we need more people like you in the world ❤️

I rescued a baby ball python snake from petco nobody wanted because it was flighty, but i bought it for $ 10.00 and 5 years later she is the sweetest thing ever, Excellent job rescuing those fish.

Good on you for bringing awareness to this and rescuing them. They would benefit from being drip acclimated slowly into a hospital tank. This situation makes the industry look bad but proper aquarium stores with caring, passionate staff would never do this. If the staff at this store are educated enough to determine the fish aren’t saleable they should also most certainly be capable of setting up a quarantine setup and receive the medication they deserve.

Thank you so much for giving these poor fish a second chance!

Oh god that’s so cruel , thankfully you’ve save them

Not sure I believe this is ligit. It just doesn't make any sense. If they were going to throw fish away they would just dip it out & dump it in the trash. Why would they go thru the expense & trouble of bagging up fish b4 throwing them away?

Bless your heart honey! This is the best way to make people aware of something important that is going on under our animal-loving nose’s. Well done on bringing awareness to this horrible situation!

Well done for keeping the fish's alive excellent video 👍🏻❤🐠🦗

Not all heros wear capes. I can't believe that they're still doing this after being called out on this for years. Just reaffirms my stance that I will never shop with them

I'm gonna go to my pet stores and check there dumpsters I feel so bad for these animals 😢 😞

The worst part is they’re probably like “they’re just fish it doesn’t matter”

Thank you for exposing these stores and their inhumane practices and saving the fish that you could. I will never shop at these places again!

This is absolutely heartbreaking! I googled how to report pet store neglect and there was some info depending on your state. I hope you will report it since you have a lot of evidence. Thank you for doing this btw. 🙏💗

Bless You! It's deplorable how LIFE has so little value to some.

Honestly this makes me want to dumpster dive Petco dumpsters. I’ve been wanting to do it for a little while now. Because I know they do this kind of stuff and it’s heartbreaking

They could be diseased and that's why they were discarded.

If there are other fish dead in the bag when they get them, it's usually a good sign of disease. The ones that are having trouble swimming upright appear to have swim bladder disease, which is usually caused by a bacteriological infection. if they put the alive ones in another tank with other fish, there's a good chance that the other fish in the tank would catch the disease and suffer and die. Sometimes culling sick fish is the least cruel alternative, overall. Certain species of snail (that can cling onto plants when they are shipped) rapidly reproduce and can quickly overtake and become a nuisance in tanks, fouling the water for the fish in those tanks with their waste. I once got a snail on a plant I bought at a Petsmart. Before long I had hundreds, possibly thousands of them in the tank and had to tear down the entire huge tank, and sterilize everything in it (and throw out all of the expensive gravel.) I wish someone at Petsmart had removed that snail!

They will just lock the dumpster now or post no dumpster diving

How are they still open?! This is classed as animal cruelty!

I work at petsmart and my manager keeps really strict regulations when it come to accepting animals. So whoever through these poor fish away really didn’t give a shit. I would definitely bring it up to the store manager, or pet care manager so whoever was in charge of unboxing fish can be confronted about it!

When I worked at petsmart I saved a leopard gecko that one of the employees didn’t see and threw away. For some reason I had a feeling to look in the trash bin and there he was 🥺 yes employees can be very negligent.

It just makes you mad that they would just discard those live fish in the trash. Hell give them to someone Pet smart. Thank you for saving the live ones from the trash. ❤️

I worked at Petsmart for 5 years ... this seems like a store problem. We would never throw full bags away. we would have to float them and open them and record if any were dead and what type etc. So we could then deduct it from the invoice for our margins etc. Small animals were never thrown away either, always brought to the vet to be checked over and disposed properly. Maybe bring it up to the manager directly....

This is absolutely disgusting! I can’t believe how someone can do something like this! I’ve heard so much about neglect and abuse at these pet stores. They should honesty get closed down for all the animals they treat like this! The world need more people like you!

Omg I never heard of this. You are amazing to bring awareness to this!!!!

It is good that you went viral with these videos. It needs to come to light, and it is loow by the stores to not take action and quit dumping live fish and actually care about what they are selling. Am feeling angry and sad for all the animals that are getting treated this way 😢 I agree that the content makes you feel so much and I whole heartedly feel your frustration and it is strong of you to keep going! 💕

Hey! Thanks so much for doing this but if you don’t already please quarantine the new fish. They could get your other fish sick!

So sad they do that. Thanks for saved them and show us that the stores do this. Kisses from Montevideo, Uruguay 🇺🇾

I'm watching this video on my fire stick and I've just heard that you couldn't keep the gold fish with tropical fish I have both types of fish in the same tank and I've never had any problems... So yes you can keep them together

So heartbreaking I'm so glad you found them. Absolutely disgusting.

I know you are trying really hard to save these fish and I think you for that but you shouldn't open the bag until you are ready to put them into clean water because it shoots the ammonia levels up and could cause them more stress

I can understand some of the fish getting thrown, especially the ones like she found inside bags with other dead fish. It’s quite likely those were trashed due to potential illness. If they got a shipment in and a bag containing multiple fish showed up doa there is a very real possibility that illness may have been present. If they took the 1 living fish out of a bag of 5 and stuck it into the tanks to be sold you’re looking at a potentially devastating outbreak that would spread across every tank hooked into the same filtration system. It’s cruel to the animal to just toss it without at least euthanizing it before hand but from the business side of things it’s better to sacrifice one or two fish in order to save the 50 or 60 that wouldn’t be able to be sold is they got sick.

The story for the last fish should be eye opening for these lazy employees. Someone just threw the poor little guy's life away, but because Glamour Dive came and found him, he got another chance at life with an experienced owner. Obviously many people don't have much care for fish's lives but seeing the employees who should be specialized in care for these animals throwing them in a dumpster is just sad.

Thank you for rescuing these poor fish.Its so sad that someone would just throw them away.

said you thought of going into the store to complain but didn't, to not complain was a smarter move, 1.because nothing probably going to change even if you complain 2.if you complain it's more than likely they'll just put a lock of the trash can, making it impossible for the animals to be rescued

Omg so unbelievable 😔This made me cry! Poor fishies, I can’t imagine just how many fishes they throw away in every other state and there’s no one ever realizing it. Thank you for saving them, bless your heart 💜

i really don’t know how this happens. my work makes us freeze anything dead. anything. if it’s dead it goes in a black bag and the city picks it up as “toxic waste” and they dispose of it properly. i don’t know what their corporate policy says but i really wish all stores stopped selling animals. apparently everyone does a shit job taking care of them unless it’s their own personal pet. the blue stuff in bags are chemicals to help them survive being shipped in a box for a few days, usually dead fish in those bags will kill the live ones if not make them super sick. goldfish can’t live with most other fish- they need their own tank or pond. other than that i think you’re good. i know you were trying to do the right thing for those guys.

bless. your. heart... ❤️ we need to be showing more care to all life forms

Even little fish, snails, shrimp, crickets are living things & should be rezpected. And if these people have no trouble throwing away live things, what might they be doing to puppies, kittens, hamsters etc.?

Thank you for saving all these animals.

You should have email the corporation with each video of what your finding attached to the email. This is animal cruelty. Instead of throwing out what they no longer need why not just give them away for free, makes no sense! So wrong. Makes me think I should start checking the dumpsters at my local Petco & Petsmart too.

This is so heartbreaking!how are they allowed to do this its barbaric. So glad they have you too save them xx

I convinced my local Petco to sell me all their sick glow betas at a very discounted cost. Out of the 12 females, 10 of them survived. They make a very beautiful sorority in my 100 gallon tank.

You’re literally the best