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Its been 3 weeks already - upsetting

SHAKSNAKE

SHAKSNAKE

The crappy keeper!
my local petshop (where i buy my mice) sells corns, and a couple king snakes. they aren't bad people but...:sobstory:

the past 3 weeks i been looking at this one big fat unhappy corn. they have him in there with no hide AND in sand, they over feed him and its VERY obvious and the same piece of crap i've been seeing for the past 3 weeks is still there in the same corner. to be quite honest i'm starting to get pissed off.

i asked the owner a couple times about this corn, bu this lady is so far gone she says " we cant take him out of the cage because then we'll let the air out."

at that point i was done with the conversation. :realhot: i'm going to snap a picture of the corn next time i buy food . its really a shame. i wanted to ask yo guys if there's anything i would be able to do? let me know!
 
We've got one of those places in town. Their snakes sit in pooped in water and have bits of shed stuck all over them...makes me ill. I have heard that animal control/ASPCA as well as the health department has been called out numerous times. These people must get some kind of 'head's up' because they keep getting away with it.

Let's see what others have to say.
 
ASPCA doesn't do anything. I called them to report a petshop that had two underweight, dehydrated, dead baby ball pythons on display. I also added to the report that the reptiles never had water/some didn't even have bowls. Nothing changed.
 
I have wondered the same thing. I have a place near me, just down the street from where I bought my very healthy corn, and they have several adults that are all cohabbing in a tank tht's prolly right around 10gals. The water is as brown as my snake (spencer who is anery motley) with pieces of skin, feces and substrate floating in it. I talked with the lady that was working for a couple of mins and learned that they feed them once, twice or three times a week or just when they think about it and she said that they take them out and handle them each about 2-3 mins a day. I wish I had the time, aquariums and money to buy them all, get them back on the right track and give them to the place where I bought my corn or to someone else who I know will love and care for them. Places like this make me sick! Oh, and btw, ALL of the animals in that store were in equal or worse conditions. :( most were laying and playing in their own filth! :puke01:
 
Oh, I just realized that I failed to mention that the adult corns were HUGE!!! OBVIOUSLY waaaayyyy over fed. When she said that they are sometimes fed three times a week I wanted to say "yeah, it shows since they are as big as your pythons", but kept my mouth shut.
 
exactly lenny. it makes me want to just buy the corns honestly to get them out of that enviorment. but i refuse to give them money. poor corn has to get caught in the middle.
 
It's a simple solution! If you and everybody else quit going there and giving them your money then they go out of business. Maybe better people will take their place.
 
OkeeteeMom said:
D'oh! Common sense at it's finest!
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they are the only reptile shop in the area unfortunately. not to mention i live in new york city so there will always be business for them. but i guess there are no real solutions here. i might resort to embarrassing them in front of costumers lol
 
SHAKSNAKE said:
they are the only reptile shop in the area unfortunately. not to mention i live in new york city so there will always be business for them. but i guess there are no real solutions here. i might resort to embarrassing them in front of costumers lol
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Not to get off topic (and you may have already addressed this) but, can you afford to get frozen feeders online?
 
Where in New York is this? And what store is it? I've seen so much BS in petstores here in the city, gekkos with huge infected bite wounds, corn hatchlings with baby crickets in their vivs, milksnakes and corns in the same viv. Its unbelievable that pet stores often are the last ones to know how to take care of pets...
 
I too have seen some pretty disgusting sights at NYC pet stores, I did however discover Fauna NYC this summer. I can't remember if they sell frozen feeders, and their reptiles are WAY WAY overpriced, but everyone was clean and happy and healthy. They have a pretty great selection of birds, hand raised and parent fed, dumbo rats, their fish all look incredible...so I would check them out and definitely give them your business if you can afford it.
 
We had one local store like that and someone called the health department on them. They had roaches, not feeder roaches, all over the place, soiled tanks, dead fish floating all over the tanks, dirty in general and very poor animal conditions. They gave them so many days to clean it up or they were going to close them. The bad thing is that they cleaned up their act for a couple months, now it is worse than before.
 
Speaking of bad petstores, we had one around here that was AWFUL! The mice and rats always looked wet or greasy, no way would I ever buy one to feed to my snakes, and the herps were always skinny and looked dehydrated and sat in poop. Several years ago when I didn't know any better, I bought a baby Savannah moniter from them bc I felt bad for him he was so skinny. He died a few weeks later, wouldn't eat. I stopped going there and spread the word to everyone I knew not to go there and the place did shut down! We were all so happy. But of course I still don't like the way the herps at Petco and Petsmart are treated. They're always covered in mites when I see them. But being bigger corporations, I doubt they'll shut down anytime soon.
 
martin-bernstein said:
Where in New York is this? And what store is it? I've seen so much BS in petstores here in the city, gekkos with huge infected bite wounds, corn hatchlings with baby crickets in their vivs, milksnakes and corns in the same viv. Its unbelievable that pet stores often are the last ones to know how to take care of pets...
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uptown manhattan near fort tryon park. the fish and birds get better treatment but the mice and reptiles really get the sh*t end of the stick.
 
KingCrimson<3 said:
I too have seen some pretty disgusting sights at NYC pet stores, I did however discover Fauna NYC this summer. I can't remember if they sell frozen feeders, and their reptiles are WAY WAY overpriced, but everyone was clean and happy and healthy. They have a pretty great selection of birds, hand raised and parent fed, dumbo rats, their fish all look incredible...so I would check them out and definitely give them your business if you can afford it.
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i'd def check it out. where are they?
 
Our local big als had a Yearling Okeetee and a SMALL green snake cohabbing together.
I thought the green snake was dead (Still could have been) since it wasn't moving, mouth wide open, just laying there. I let them know, I saw them take it out (it was limp/dangled) and then when I tried to help (suggesting maybe the tank was too hot - thus why his mouth open) they rushed into the back (so to be honest, It could have been dead) but they told me they didn't know what was wrong with it.
 
rob&spence331 said:
I wish I had the time, aquariums and money to buy them all, get them back on the right track ...
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Never do this, please! I rescue a lot of reptiles (I also own a pet store) and I'll never give a penny for them. Buying only makes another one fill its spot, and gives the crappy store a rewarding profit for inadequately keeping an animal.
 
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