Why I won't buy from a pet store

So I went to buy frozen mice at my local pet store and this is what I come across..

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Does this snake even have a chance at surviving? It looks very starved and dehydrated. It also has burns on it that are not visible in the picture. I talked to management and they replied "oh it just stopped eating it should eat soon." Do you guys have any idea who I can specificly report this too so I could help it out?

That's absurd...it's skin and bones...I would have been really tempted to give "management" a good throttling...surely there's somewhere you could report this. That's got to qualify as mistreatment or cruelty or something. I've seen some pretty pitiful pet store photos, but that takes the cake. :rage:

http://www.aspca.org/aspca-nyc.aspx

I don't know if it would do any good, but that's the website for the ASPCA in NY. Mouse over the "Fight Animal Cruelty" tab and click on "Report Animal Cruelty".

Oh my god, I'm not sure I've ever seen a snake that is literally skin and bones. This is just horrifying. Did you end up buying feeders from them? I'm not sure I'd have given them my money at all. :(

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:O Man is that baby in bad shape! I rescued a female ball python last summer who was 6 months old and 44g. She was skinny, but not THAT skinny! I would definitely report that petstore and see if you can't bring that baby home and get it back to health (without paying for it, of course).

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Originally Posted by coleworld

So I went to buy frozen mice at my local pet store and this is what I come across..



Does this snake even have a chance at surviving? It looks very starved and dehydrated. It also has burns on it that are not visible in the picture. I talked to management and they replied "oh it just stopped eating it should eat soon." Do you guys have any idea who I can specificly report this too so I could help it out?

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Care to share the name or contact info for this pet store?

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Originally Posted by Archimedes

Oh my god, I'm not sure I've ever seen a snake that is literally skin and bones. This is just horrifying. Did you end up buying feeders from them? I'm not sure I'd have given them my money at all. :(

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Nope. I left and went somewhere else. They usually take great care of their animals but since this store is under new management the reptiles have been getting treated poorly. Oh and to make it worse that snake is 6 months old according to them.

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Originally Posted by sho220

Care to share the name or contact info for this pet store?

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http://www.petsuppliesplus.com/

Their are a lot of these stores.. Kind of like a Petco but I think just all over the North East. And I was going to call corporate but each store is individually owned and franchised.

Sadder still, given then chance, they'd probably sell that snake(and $100 worth of supplies) to some unfortunate novice - knowing full well the snake is as good as doomed.

That is absolutely awful! That poor thing! I would rip them a new you-know-what and demand they give me that snake as a rescue because clearly they aren't caring for it properly. Oh this makes me mad!

Jesus, that poor thing. I've never seen a snake like that. Definitely contact ASPCA, offer to take the snake too while you're at it- if you can, or can find a new home for it :/ Even if something is individually owned and franchised they still answer to a corporate office. I worked for Anytime Fitness, which is a franchise and individually owned- however, they all have to meet corporate standards and answer to them.
If nothing else, contact the owner, forget the manager.