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I've seen alot of threads with concerns of Petco, from personal experience I've gone to petco and saw three baby ball pythons skinny as ever, low hummidity, low temp, bad sheds, little room, and empty water dish. If you've gone to petco and noticed somthing odd, or that concerns you post it, if you have pictures, feel free to post.

-Payson!

At our Pet Co, the ball pythons are kept with red tailed boas, fed pinkies (even the adults), they are so thin, and the bearded dragons are all extremely tiny, and in an over-crowded aquarium. The rats/mice eat each other alive, there are 500+ hermit crabs in a 10 gallon enclosure (piled on top of each other), there are no hiding spots for the snakes, there are three leopard geckos in a small display case that is around the size of a five gallon aquarium, the crested geckos are fed baby food, they drop animals all the time and they don't care...

The list goes on. I tried reporting them, but they won't change.

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Originally Posted by RR - Mackenzie

At our Pet Co, the ball pythons are kept with red tailed boas, fed pinkies (even the adults), they are so thin, and the bearded dragons are all extremely tiny, and in an over-crowded aquarium. The rats/mice eat each other alive, there are 500+ hermit crabs in a 10 gallon enclosure (piled on top of each other), there are no hiding spots for the snakes, there are three leopard geckos in a small display case that is around the size of a five gallon aquarium, the crested geckos are fed baby food, they drop animals all the time and they don't care...

The list goes on. I tried reporting them, but they won't change.

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Thats really sad to hear.. You would expect a "petstore" to treat there animals with care and love not to be used as quick money.

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Originally Posted by Paysons Bps

Thats really sad to hear.. You would expect a "petstore" to treat there animals with care and love not to be used as quick money.

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Right?

The birds all have almost no feathers, they are so bored they pluck their feathers, they have large rabbits in small enclosures, and so much more. It is so horrible and disgusting

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Originally Posted by RR - Mackenzie

At our Pet Co, the ball pythons are kept with red tailed boas, fed pinkies (even the adults), they are so thin, and the bearded dragons are all extremely tiny, and in an over-crowded aquarium. The rats/mice eat each other alive, there are 500+ hermit crabs in a 10 gallon enclosure (piled on top of each other), there are no hiding spots for the snakes, there are three leopard geckos in a small display case that is around the size of a five gallon aquarium, the crested geckos are fed baby food, they drop animals all the time and they don't care...

The list goes on. I tried reporting them, but they won't change.

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I would call 911 in that case.

one of the petcos in my area now sell argentine b&w tegus... :rolleyes:

I'm not sure if they're any better now, but the petco closest to where I live was a trainwreck the last time I was there. The ball pythons were a sob story, and if it weren't for the fact that I wasn't sure if they had something contagious, I would've brought all five home (that, and the stress of moving them probably would have sent them to their graves). They were WAY too thin, and they were piled together with no hide in a ten gallon tank. They had russian tortioses with runny eyes and noses and moldy salads, and they had a tank with some anoles that had cobwebs trailing across the top. I didn't look at anything else because I probably would've hit the employee in charge of those animals in the mouth.

I reported them, had my friends report them, and never went back. I can only hope they've improved for the animals' sake.

been in the 2 local ones and gone from justa customer to offerd a job at the one. I don't buy there often prefer local or online stores. I had the manager at the one store call me and asking advise for on a snake that was dropped off at the door once. ( they didn't havea reptile person. I was passing cards and such out for doing rescues at one time. )

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Originally Posted by mechnut450

been in the 2 local ones and gone from justa customer to offerd a job at the one. I don't buy there often prefer local or online stores. I had the manager at the one store call me and asking advise for on a snake that was dropped off at the door once. ( they didn't havea reptile person. I was passing cards and such out for doing rescues at one time. )

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The one that was by me in Florida did the same thing. I lived 2 mins from them, and they had me on speed-dial basically because they'd need help to identify whatever herps were brought in. They actually kept the store clean, and the animals in good condition.

Unfortunately the one here in Atlanta is headed on the same path. Whenever I walk in the store they know I'm grabbing 60 crickets for my lizards, and I'm known as "That reptile Guy". They changed the habitat by me for their normal balls because I pointed out that they weren't arboreal and didn't need a 6 foot high tank because they could hurt themselves. The next week I came in, the tank had changed, and didn't have vines and everything hanging from the top. Plus they had the hides and other things needed to keep them comfortable.

I'm sure they are going to need my help with a few things here or there.

You can't generalize the company based off your local stores. There are many things most people don't know about PetCo. Make whatever assumptions you will, but they are leaps and bounds better than most other chain stores.

The Hedgehog, didn't your location use to say Savannah? If not, sorry. I'd like to know the PetCo you're talking about.