Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
my thought is that we try to get petco to switch their caresheet for the one here!
Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
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Originally Posted by SnakeEyes
Good luck, one member here was sold a BP that had IBD and other snakes in the store were infected and petco didnt give two ***** about it. even when the snake the owner died all they offered was a discount, showed no signs of sympathy or anything. doubt a letter for this would mean anything to them...
True, I remember that. Very unfortunate. :( It disappoints me how PetCo just wants to make the sale and that once the animal is out of their care, they don't care if it suffers or dies.
But hey, I guess that's just business. :irkd:
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Originally Posted by Gooseman
The snake was put down a few hours ago. If my friend was to pursue treatment it would have been several hundred dollars in vet bills and only given 30% chance recovery. I am not a happy camper right now but I feel it was the best decision given the situation. I have a hard time faulting my friend because he went off the advise that someone who's supposed to know what they're doing told him with absolute certainty. If anything I feel a little guilty b/c I knew petco does some stupid things, and I spend an excessive amount of time on some website filled with knowledgeable herpers yet I didn't ask about his set-up...
Ben, don't kick yourself dear. In the end your friend was responsible to see to this snake and educate himself, just not go on the say so of a pet store. It's a sad fact that many folks don't find out a lot about their snakes until stuff like this happens and their pet pays the ultimate price. If nothing else your intervention helped the poor thing be put down humanely rather than die inch by inch as it was obviously doing. You may not have been there beforehand but now you have an excellent opportunity to educate your friend on what went wrong, how it could have been addressed and if he chooses to get another snake at some point, how it should be properly cared for.
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Originally Posted by frankykeno
Ben, don't kick yourself dear. In the end your friend was responsible to see to this snake and educate himself, just not go on the say so of a pet store. It's a sad fact that many folks don't find out a lot about their snakes until stuff like this happens and their pet pays the ultimate price. If nothing else your intervention helped the poor thing be put down humanely rather than die inch by inch as it was obviously doing. You may not have been there beforehand but now you have an excellent opportunity to educate your friend on what went wrong, how it could have been addressed and if he chooses to get another snake at some point, how it should be properly cared for.
True, it's just been a rather long month for me, both with class and a bunch of things related to my herps (which y'all have the misfortune of hearing about) have gone awry and it's starting to take it's toll... Grr... It just bugs me to no end that if I had gotten to the snake earlier it would be perfectly fine, but in the end I could do nothing. Especially since I'm going to be a vet in a few short years.
Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
once i become the reptile specialist where i work at, im going to recommend we sell digital thermometers and not the gauges.and to also get rid of the heat rocks.idk if that'll be easy.
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my thought is that we try to get petco to switch their caresheet for the one here!
i was actually gonna do that but once i become the reptile specialist:D
Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
heat rocks arent bad, just bad for snakes.
Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
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Originally Posted by SnakeEyes
heat rocks arent bad, just bad for snakes.
arent they bad for reptiles? they cant keep steady temps on 1 whole side and they can get really hot and burn the animal.
Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
heat rocks are dangerous b/c hotspots form on them at places that may or may not be connected to your thermostat so you never really know just how hot they are. so they are dangerous really to any form of animal.
Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
JUST SAY NO!!!.....to petco...lol yea i just go their to buy basic needs, feeders, calcium and such, i like to check on the reptiles and wish i could save them but cant save em all...the one snake which i mentioned has had shedded skin for like a month (at petland) when i last seen it, still has unshed skin stuck on him. The petco by me isnt that bad, in the sense they take btter care of there animals than some others, but there #1 interest is saveing space and makeing money so they have 3bps in 1 tank, 8leo's, like 9 cresteds..I did meet a couple employees that knew about snakes and cresteds, which was cool cuz they acually cared...
Re: Why you don't trust petco... and their merchandise.
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Originally Posted by SnakeEyes
heat rocks arent bad, just bad for snakes.
Funny then isn't it that just about every good forum or caresheet on any type of lizard also recommends not using heat rocks. I guess they "aren't bad"...if you cut off the cord and use them as cage decor, or warm up your grilled cheese sandwich on one. Other than that I can't think of a good thing about them.
