My first visit to Petco

I would print out a ball python care sheet we have here and give it to the managers! We need to try and educate! That is more important than trying to get them in trouble! I had the same experience here with a new reptile store. The tanks were dirty, old sheds, old poos and dirty water. I tried to educate by giving them the info and they said they know what they are doing and its fine so I called Animal Control and I went back a couple weeks later and it was totally cleaned up! Now they are a great store. I don't know what changed it but I am glad it did! All you can do is try!

This is the careshhet I used!

http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules/...warticle&id=59

I work at Petco, and our store treats and cares for the animals very well. We also have extremely knowledgeable staff, so don't assume that just because one, or two, or even three + Petco's are horrid that they all are.


Petco has corporate animal specialists that check on things like this -- I would reccommend looking up the specialists who cater to your Petco district.


Good luck.

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Originally Posted by EvesFriend

I work at Petco, and our store treats and cares for the animals very well. We also have extremely knowledgeable staff, so don't assume that just because one, or two, or even three + Petco's are horrid that they all are.


Petco has corporate animal specialists that check on things like this -- I would reccommend looking up the specialists who cater to your Petco district.


Good luck.

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Aren't you the one who thought pastels had yellow eyes, not green? Sorry, you just came off as overly-defensive, so I did too.

I agree though, just because one is bad doesn't mean all are. However, when you see a store mistreating animals, always report it!:)

I just looked, can only find companion animal specialist...so I'll just print out a caresheet and give it to them.

With taking pictures you have to be careful in some of those stores. They usually wont allow pictures to be taken. There has been threads like this before and employees from petco and petsmart said the stores arent usually camera friendly. So just do it discretely.

My petsmart is actually pretty good. They dont have the most knowledgeable staff. Ive had to help people before in the store with the employee right there.. That being said the staff does a good job of taking care of the animals.

IT really does vary from store to store. Around here most pet stores I have found that actually keep their snakes in decent condition will refuse to sell live rodents as feeders. Petco's primary sales on rodents are for feeders and I've never been rejected. Although their costs are excessive.

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

IT really does vary from store to store. Around here most pet stores I have found that actually keep their snakes in decent condition will refuse to sell live rodents as feeders. Petco's primary sales on rodents are for feeders and I've never been rejected. Although their costs are excessive.

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We charge $2.99 for a mouse, and we def don't discriminate ;). What is the price where you're at?

2.79/mouse. Rats are 6.99/9.99/16.99. That's at Petco, they're actually decent but the cost of rats and mice is, in my opinion, high. And mice are like 7.99 for 3 F/T.

Oh I completely agree that not all stores are the same. The Petsmart near my house is great, the guy that takes care of them own ball pythons and king snakes and corn snakes along with other reptiles. I learned a lot from him when I first got my ball python. All we can do I guess is to make sure that abuse doesn't happen whenever we run across something like this. I'm not judging Petco as a corporation, but at that store, even if I didn't know anything about ball pythons, it would still be very obvious that something is seriously wrong with those balls.