When a for-profit business uses animals, its foremost priority is going to be financial gain, not the animals’ well-being — and the animals will suffer for it. We’ve seen it in puppy mills, where mother dogs are used as breeding machines until their bodies wear out, and we’ve seen it in factory farms, where chickens are trapped in cages so small that they can’t even spread a wing. That’s why PETA works hard to expose cruelty to animals wherever it occurs — including at big-box stores like PetSmart.

Most recently, three managers of a Nashville, Tenn., PetSmart store pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals after a PETA expose caught them repeatedly refusing to provide sick, injured, and dying animals with veterinary care to “keep costs down” so they would receive bonuses.