Sep18
Listen Up, Brookstone!
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This week, we received a tip that Brookstone's district managers and vice presidents were gathering in the Manchester, New Hampshire, area, where their headquarters is based, for corporate meetings and store visits.
While they were going over new store layouts and new bonus packages for selling killing as many frogs as possible, our larger-than-life "frog" was following them wherever they went. Our frog wanted to remind them of the one thing that Brookstone executives have clearly left out of their training manuals: compassion.
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We even followed them to the restaurant where they ate dinner!
We're not going to let Brookstone forget about the thousands of frogs who are dying on their store shelves, while shipped across the country, and in the homes of people who do not have the ability to care for them. Until Brookstone ends the sale of Frog-O-Spheres at its stores nationwide, it can consider our "frog" its permanent shadow.
Posted by Liz Graffeo
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way to go. i think its horrible that they are doing this to the poor frogs! i wish someone could put them in a little bowl and sit them on a shelf. its sicking!!!!
Posted by: Megean | September 18, 2009 06:02 PM
How cute! What is PETA's frog's name?
I am so glad you care about these frogs. What a awful way to die.
Posted by: Shari | September 18, 2009 07:48 PM
Keep up the good work! I only wish I could be there with you.
Posted by: Sandra Newell | September 18, 2009 09:57 PM
Thank you so much for doing this. I happened to walk by Brookstone a couple of weeks ago at a mall. I had not heard about these Frog-O-Spheres and I was horrified by it when I saw the unfortunate lives these frogs are left to live. It is truly amazing how insensitive people are to the needs of these frogs (the same goes for fish in tanks). If these frogs were given a choice, it is impossible to convince me that they would wish to be confined for their life.
Posted by: Jay | September 19, 2009 02:21 AM
I rarely agree with PETA, but you're right about the frogs. The chances of more than 1% of these frogs living out a year are slim to none. The other 99% will die a miserable death of ammonia burns, starvation, infection, or some combination.
To the world at large: If you really want an aquatic frog, the same frogs (and much more suitable housing and food) are available at pet shops; if you really want something decorative and aquatic to sit on your desk, go to ThinkGeek and search for "electric jellyfish": cute, colorful, and plastic.
Posted by: WW | September 19, 2009 06:13 AM
I saw these poor frogs in a Brookstone in the mall nearby. I was astonished to even learn that they were selling these poor frogs. I wish I could've bought all of them and set them free.
Posted by: Stacy | September 19, 2009 01:05 PM
So good that you care! When I left the Brookstone store, horrified, I thought of reporting, being a foreigner I had no idea that you were already doing your best! Way to go!!
Posted by: Manon | September 20, 2009 09:14 PM
Frogs value their lives just as we value ours. They should live in freedom among their own kind in nature, not sold as chattel property by Brookstone. Speak out for frogs!
Posted by: Brandon Becker | September 21, 2009 02:21 PM
I hate Brookstone now!
Posted by: roxanen | September 21, 2009 07:48 PM
I am listening to the tree frogs croaking outside in our woods as I am here at my computer. I have always loved and been fascinated by frogs, sinced I was a little girl. I couldn't resist catching them as a child, but I never harmed them and always safely released them. It sickens me to think how callously Brookstone can treat another one of God's wonderful creatures.
Posted by: Carole Edmonds | September 23, 2009 12:26 AM
does anyone else notice that they look exactlly like the beta fish bowls ? wich is another thing that pisses me off i was in petsmart the other day and the had all thes betas stacked up on each other like friggen cans at a grocery store how are they getting any air???
Posted by: psychokitty | September 23, 2009 04:39 AM
Brookstone is horrible! First, they kill frogs, unmercifully, and then they discriminate against an employee and FIRE him for being haraased by another employee and her deviant beliefs. We all need to join and force Brookstone to be compassionate to both our animal brothers and to those people who care to have morals and stand for them!
Posted by: lashandra | November 8, 2009 07:53 PM