new rescue case, big female...

Thanks, Rusty. I am sure you are familiar with the temptation! :)

I have said the same sentaments to a MILLION people!
Lol
many have told me they have "Rescued" an animal by purchaseing it from a pet store. But in actuality they just promoted the store with more money to buy more snakes to abuse.
I have lucked out in the sense, that after ten years of making "friends", I am able to remove snakes from certain petstores if they are ill or neglected etc. We also work close enough with our states regulating agencies (Department of Environmental Protection, and the Department of Agriculture) to be able to put in a trusted report.
That's the best thing to do. Report it, complain and be a general pain in the butt untill someone listens. Some states are harder as laws differ widely between states. If anyone ever needs help trying to find laws pertaining to their own state, I'd be willing to help.
I can't gaurentee anything, but I can try to help none the less.
Thanks
Rusty

Good of you to help. Unfortunately, I'm sure that the clean carpet in the cage and readily available feeder rodents would negate any complaints I might have to SPCA or animal control over the treatment of these snakes. Their habitat was clean, just wayyy stressful.

I can just hope that "karma" does exist, and that the bad pet store owners are reincarnated into pets in their next life and are forced to live in bad conditions. lol

Y'know, Ginevive, that's a comforting thought. :)

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I can just hope that "karma" does exist, and that the bad pet store owners are reincarnated into pets in their next life and are forced to live in bad conditions. lol

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They will be reincarnated into Feeder Mice and my Ball will gobble them down :mrgreen:

I bought my snake from a place called "Reptile Island," so I would think they knew something about how to care for reptiles. They had a tank with like at least 8 or 9 wild caught ball pythons all huddled together in a corner, and no hides. My future snake was in a smaller tank a couple of other captive bred snakes, not ball pythons. I think one was a boa, and I don't know about the other one. Anyway, my Monty was hiding curled up underneath the other snakes, since there was no hide. There was water dish, not that it helped much because he was shedding all in pieces.

I didn't know there was anything wrong with any of this at the time. I figured they knew what they were doing. Otherwise I would have taken my business elsewhere. I'm glad I've got Monty now though.

Gen, unfortunately it's exactly that kind of ignorance on the part of pet store employees that leads to poor husbandry by pet owners. I'm not blaming the employees -- though I'd like them to be motivated enough to research proper husbandry -- but the pet stores that should be training their employees properly, including with regard to husbandry as well as the stuff they typically cover, like grooming and absenteeism.