Grrr...

[Ginevive]

Did you ever meet one of those self-proclaimed "snake people" who supposedly know everything about snakes? They are usually found at your local "crappy" pet store, you know, the one with the freshly imported BPs and starving iguanas crammed into a ten gallon tank.
You say, "Oh, I have a few BPs, maybe a boa" and they go into this long spiel about how "real" snake keepers have rattlers and cobras, and then proceed to tell you that they own a monster anaconda. They'll talk about how you have to "tame" a snake, and how they can feed live kittens to their huge burm (ok, I may be exaggerating, but you get the point right?) And they always say "Oh, I own a 20-foot ball python!" or some other such nonsense. People who are uneducated about snakes, will go "Ooh" and "Aah" while this dummy rattles on and on about his snakes (which he probably owns none and lives in his friend's garage, lol.)Then the guy asks you about some weird, invented snake like a "blue python" or a "garden snake" and look at you like you're a moron if you don't get what they're saying.
Doncha just LOVE people like that?
sorry guys, had to vent. Remind me why I bother going to local pet stores around here...

[JLC]

LOL....I haven't met anyone quite like that. Makes me want to go visit that pet store and find the guy myself...just for a good laugh!

[Marla]

I know just what you're talking about! They're the same ones who don't provide hides but are happy to recommend heat rocks, and can't tell the difference between a python and a boa, or between a ball and a burm. They'll handle the frogs and keep the mice breeding until they die of exhaustion, and see nothing wrong with keeping rodents, snakes, and lizards all on the same shelves together, where they can see and smell one another. Arrgh!

[Smulkin]

Yep I heard one cheerfully explaining this weekend that ball pythons do not shed in one piece - and it is natural for them to shed in patches, and that this process may take a week or so. It is a minor improvement from the girl that was there before shaking a log hide like a recalcitrant bottle of ketchup to try and get the BPs to come out of it . . . but not by much.

I followed the 2 kids and their dad back to the supplies when they had gottten away from her, explaiined her mistakes as gently as I could and wrote the site's URL down for them . . . and made them put back the heat rock too.

[gozetec02]

Yea I know the type of pet store worker that says that you have to feed your ball python huge prey items to make its head grow lol.

EDIT: I also had to add the people who say that if you put a snake in a small tank it wont get that big.

[Marla]

Excellent, Smulkin. It's great when we get a chance to undo the damage while there's still time.

[Eddie_Z]

I also had to add the people who say that if you put a snake in a small tank it wont get that big.

Ah yes, my favorite all time snake myth! I get aggravated with those kind of people all around. They are just those people who swear that they know everything about everything & even when you know for a fact that they are wrong, they aint hearin any of it. They are right & that is all because they are ALWAYS right.

I like going into some of my local petstores and screwing with the idiot employees......maybe I'm just jaded from having worked in almost every store in the city, lol.

[tuffy110]

Also the ones that say that goldfish do not live long or they grow to fit the tank. Got one here that will tell you if you keep an alligator in a small tank and feed it little, it will stay small and you can keep it in a 30 gallon tank. These are the same people that sell you undertank heaters for tree frogs and UVB lightbulbs for nocturnal animals. Don't forget the ones that tell you feeding live rats is best because it is what they will do in nature and feeding them live food makes them feel like they are still in the wild. Along with the ones that tell you that pacman frogs can be kept in a critter keeper.

As genivive knows from my posts at the frog forum, I have a place that will tell you DO NOT TAKE YOUR ANIMAL TO THE VET, if it is sick then you have your tank setup wrong. If the animal has worms, it is because your setup is wrong, if you animal has cancer, it is because of your setup, if your animal breaks a bone or gets hurt it is your setup and on and on they will go.

[MacWin]

Some of the people at the local Petco are like that. It's just like that in IT too though If I had a nickel for every time I heard that "Mac's are only good for graphics" :roll:

I would be a very rich man.