Urge Myrtle Beach Store to Ditch Hermit Crab Sales

After hearing that Eagles Beachwear in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, sells hermit crabs during tourist season (April through October), PETA asked the store’s owners to adopt a policy prohibiting the sale and display of live animals. But our concerns appear to have been casually dismissed. Your help is needed now!

Impulse shoppers who lack the knowledge, resources, or desire to meet the extraordinarily specialized needs of these complex animals buy countless hermit crabs as “pets” annually. In nature, they shun human contact, travel in colonies of up to 100 members, and can live as long as 40 years. But in captivity, they typically die between the ages of 1 and 4. Taken from their homes in the wild (because they don‘t breed in captivity), peddled as cheap trinkets, confined to small “habitats,” roughly handled, fed improper diets, and neglected when the novelty wears off, these animals are doomed from the moment they’re captured. Furthermore, a PETA investigation into major suppliers exposed a horrific industry that profits whenever hermit crabs are purchased.

Please join PETA in urging Eagles Beachwear to do the right thing by ending its sale of live animals:

Eagles Beachwear
1631 Mountain Hawk Dr.
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
[email protected]
843-448-0416

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