What you can do about the ‘desk pets’ as a concerned customer or employee
Throwaway account for obvious reasons.
Employee options
You can email your DM and your ACOM with your concerns. Their emails can also receive emails from non-petco emails if you are afraid of using your petco email, or if you don’t have a manager email that can actually send out emails. Don’t give their emails out though.
GIVE THEM WATER. Put a water dish in there, if you are concerned about putting a ceramic dish or something someone could steal that you need in there you can use the cups the frogs came in, the plastic cups for the sampling events, or you can buy small plastic sauce cups at a grocery store
Print out the Pac Man frog care sheet and the arboreal tarantula care sheet and keep those with the display. Highlight on the pac man frog care sheet where it says 10 gallon minimum, 20 gallon minimum for adult, uvb light needed, heating for mid to high 70s needed, and small water dish needed. Same for the tarantulas.
Customer and Employee options
There is the petition someone made that you can sign I don’t have the link right now but I’m sure someone will post it in the comments.
Leave reviews mentioning the concerns as a customer. Petco HATES getting low reviews it’s like the only thing they respond to. You can also call petco customer services to submit a complaint.
Submit a complaint to your state or local humane society. If petco is sure that this is humane treatment of animals then having complaints submitted to the humane societies shouldn’t scare them right? The biggest thing here in my opinion to mention is the lack of temperature regulation and no water dish.
Go to the cabinet with all of the licenses in it, this is usually in the front or by the bathrooms, they should look something like the example on the last slide, you should see bird dealer, kennel, etc it will be a little different for every state. On that license either at the top or the bottom it will say the department which approved it, for most states this is going to be the department of agriculture. Submit a complaint to whoever approves the licenses, most department of agriculture websites have a form on them you can fill out to submit a complaint online, but most will not let you submit them anonymously. If you are afraid to have your name on it see if a friend, partner, or family member will be willing to be the contact for that.
You are not powerless to do something about it. Make your voice heard.