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Another Disappointment from PETCO

I've never been to a Petco that didn't sell feeder fish and mice, so I don't know that PETA succeeded. :shrugs:

As for cohabbing to save space, maybe we don't like it as reptile owners, but for short term purposes, I can see why they do it. I don't agree, but storming the place as an angry or verbally abusive individual will not make things better. I was pointing that out. I was not embracing Petco as a good guy in the reptile/pet trade. I don't know that I would say reptiles can be "happy" exactly, either, but certainly they should be comfortable and healthy.
 
I just dropped in my Petco today, as I was in the neighborhood.

The last time I was there, they had a bunch of baby ball pythons and a red tail boa. The pythons were very active and seemed OK, although they only had one hide (they were all in a viv together).

The red tail boa's still there. There are a couple ball pythons left. There's also a black ratsnake (erm...how much do those normally go for?).

And there's a corn...hmmm. It was labeled "albino corn" and was selling for something like $70 (hee hee). Of course, the snake in the viv wasn't a so-called albino corn. It was a normal. It's possible that they had both in there and sold the "albino," but there was no price tag for a normal. I forsee a great disaster.

On the plus side, he had aspen and water and a hide (one, but it might have been large enough to cross the temperature gradient slightly).

On the downside, his water bowl had minnows in it. MINNOWS? Two of them were dead, and one of the living fish was eating one of his fallen brethren. Nothing about that seems right to me at all. It's extremely likely that they aren't feeding the fish, thinking the snake will eat them; thus, the fish are dying from polluted water, starvation, who knows what. Dead fish and fish doo-doo are going to pollute the snake's drinking water. And of course, corns don't normally go around eating minnows. So nothing about this worked. Nothing.
 
MulatteMadness said:
hehehehe thats y i work at petSMART lol
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Yes, because Petsmart has a shining record!

I hate that people generalize chain stores based on what they hear. You have to judge the stores individually! My Petco has excellent employees that actually know what they are doing, we've never had mites, and never sold a non-feeding snake! We take all of our sick animals to a vet and give them round-the-clock treatment if needed, right down to the feeder mice.

Sorry if I seem sensitive about it, but I really hate having to defend my store because of hearsay or a bad experience in the past.
 
I got myself all worked up over this stuff on Friday and started writing a letter to their corporate office. I'd meant to work on it over the weekend, but I was busy with other things.

Does it even seem like a good idea? I don't want to sound like I'm jumping on them for the mistakes of a few people, but I worry that they don't know about some of the problems. And if they do know and aren't doing anything about it, we'd need to get ourselves a news crew and bust 'em, heh.
 
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