Too the MOD's, move this to a more appropriate section if needed, it's pretty much a rant...


Well I was on my way to my friends mom's work when I decided to go into pet land to see some animals and reptiles... Boy was that a mistake.
All was good, the hamsters, rabbits, birds, etc etc etc were all happy and alive, I got to play with a little chocolate lab, fun times, until we reached the reptile room. As soon as I walk into the reptile room there when ever I go, I always look at the beautiful albino burmese they have. Well today, shes out and wandering like mad, and she struck at the glass when I walked towards her. Next I turn around, to see some kind of water monitor. Last time I was in the reptile room (aproximately 2 weeks ago), I handled her, she was tame, but this time, she kept striking at the glass. Oh, and the wonderful thing about her, shes in an old carpet python cage. You know, normally it wouldn't be that bad, except the carpet python has mites, and I don't think they cleaned/changed anything in the tank... Next after that, I check the boa and baby boa. Boa is fine, he's hiding, baby boa, same thing, I'm happy about that. I noticed a new tank, and when I looked inside of it, it had some kind of salamander that looked half dead, and 2 fairly big frogs (All 3 seemed very dehydrated and uncared for). So I'm thinking from what I've seen so far, "What the ____ is this?" I see some corns, 3 in the same cage, all different sizes. I see the chameleons and crested&leopard gecko's, the seem fine, I'm happy about this, except for another tank that seemed to home to an unfed, dehydrated, and extremely sick baby chameleon, and half of the tail seemed to be missing... The adult ball python, perfect, shes hiding away in her cool side hide, I think that is the only tank that didn't make me want to completely flip out on the staff there.

Oh, and heres the ABSOLUTE WORST THING I think anybody could expect to see in a reptile room/store... A beautiful childrens python, in a tank with 2 things... a terrible looking water dish, and a HUGE hide... I look closely cause I see the python trying to curl up in the water dish and guess what I CLEARLY saw? a huge mite... After I saw this, I didn't say a word to either of my friends and stormed right out of there.

So... I've heard a few people on this site complaining about petland's and petsmart's and a few other pet shops / exotic shops in there neck of the woods, so I want to know, anything that compares or even tops this?