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Hatchling cruelty at Petco...

Im so sorry. That has to be terrible.

I had a great experience with Petco and buying my snake. They sell frozen pinkies and were great about informing me about proper feeding practices. I wish they were all like that.
 
Some places are pretty good about giving their charges proper care until they find new homes, but for every 1 animal that is well taken care of, there are 4 that are abused. Usually, most of the neglect and abuse I see is at Petsmart... Petco seems to have a few more standards when hiring their "specialists" (and I use that term very loosely). I've seen more neglect than I'd care to ever remember (baby corns eating a cagemate's regurge, kingsnakes eating frogs, dead baby BP's just sitting in the tank, emaciated and exacerbated animals that no doubt died within days of my visit, and yes the crickets).

I have tried talking to employees and managers until I was blue in the face. I even happily offered free seminars about exotic care. They were not interested. After all, these were just "temporary" stops. Unfortunately, even talking to them from a business standpoint (no one wants to buy a sick animal) they would rather go about their ways, and keep writing off the returns and refunds.

From now on, if I need to go into a Petsmart or Petco for any reason, and I happen to see people looking at reptiles, I just give them my card and tell them that they don't want to buy an animal from here. Sure the store hates me for it, but I am a customer as well, so they deal with it. Hopefully, if enough people realize just how horrible these animals are being treated, and refuse to buy them, these 2nd rate "pet stores" will stop trying to sell them.
 
Man, that's too bad. I've been rather fond of Petsmart as I got my kitties there, and I think it's really cool they (and Petco, I believe) don't sell cat/puppies from mills but rather team up with local shelters to find homeless pets a home.

The herps and rodents all looked pretty well taken care of at the petsmart near me. Definitely no crickets in the corn tanks!
 
our petsmart is pretty good. Reptiles look healthy. they don't keep many only maybe 8 displays for them, but none of the herps look sick.
 
update:
i talked to their manager, and he of course fed me a line of bs, so i threatened to file complaints and such...he freaked out telling me not to worry about it anymore because i should be assured it wouldn't happen again.

i told him i'd be checking in (LOL i felt like a creeper)

X.D
 
I have made the local petsmart stay on their toes they tried to feed the corns crickets I said I would get o high level managment like big overseers if they didnt care for their herps right
 
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