No more pet shop visits

We stopped in the pet shop a few doors down from the restaurant while we were waiting for our take-out order. While there an employee took a corn snake out of an improperly heated enclosure and was holding it. My 7 year old daughter asked to pet the snake. The employee said sure and when my daughter touched the snake she told the employee that the snake was too cold. The employee agreed and complained to another employee who said yeah, he wouldn't buy a snake from the shop. :( He said they take good care of the $400 dollar dogs but careless about the reptiles. My daughter then noticed that the snakes didn't have hides. She got quite upset and told me that 'It wasn't fair. All the snakes should have hides.' There was no comment from the staff on that one. I told them that I certainly wouldn't buy a snake from that store and we decided to go wait for our take-out order some where else. It's sad that my 7 year old has a better idea about husbandry than the pet shop. I'm going to stay out of that store. Visiting is too frustrating.

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Originally Posted by khara

It's sad that my 7 year old has a better idea about husbandry than the pet shop.

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Not to metion better respect for life as well :cool:

I know. What really got me is this isn't one of the usual suspect big two pet chains. It's a local shop that when it started out seemed to have respect for their animals. :(

when i went in to the local Petco to look around (they actually have they biggest supply of reptiles) and peeked in the bp cages. the temps were around 80 and the humidity was only at ~20%. really sucks to see that kinda stuff

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Originally Posted by khara

I know. What really got me is this isn't one of the usual suspect big two pet chains. It's a local shop that when it started out seemed to have respect for their animals. :(

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Sad thing is with many that start out great at some point the bottom line catchs up and they start cutting costs be it the staff, light bulbs and other supplies to care for the animals.