Stupid petland employees!

My local petstore is NERD :D

It's about 40 minutes away actually, I pass about 3-4 Petsmarts on my way up there. I Must say that the Petsmart closest to my house seems to have nice proper setups for the snakes they sell which seems to be BP's, Kings and Corns. As far as the knowledge of the employees I wouldnt know seeing I never felt the need to speak with them.

Any animal I have ever had in my adult life has been bought from a reputable breeder which is the obvious way to go.

BTW, I am 33 and have been breeding balls since 1975 ;)

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Originally Posted by BostonMacK

My local petstore is NERD :D

It's about 40 minutes away actually, I pass about 3-4 Petsmarts on my way up there. I Must say that the Petsmart closest to my house seems to have nice proper setups for the snakes they sell which seems to be BP's, Kings and Corns. As far as the knowledge of the employees I wouldnt know seeing I never felt the need to speak with them.

Any animal I have ever had in my adult life has been bought from a reputable breeder which is the obvious way to go.

BTW, I am 33 and have been breeding balls since 1975 ;)

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There are a lot of knowledgable young people who breed snakes, but they don't give you an unbelievable earful of crap like I was hearing from him. Yes , he was old enough to have bred snakes for ten years. Do I believe him? No! Anyone who has bred snakes that long would have been aware of alot more. I don't buy anything but crickets from this store, but noticed it was a bad setup , mixing species and sizes in the manner they were doing and being concerned for the animals in question I'm not the type to sit back and say nothing. You were a young'n!:P At 1 yr old I was still figuring out the genetics of breeding dogs!;)

I go the petland in Tinley Il, and they don't even have snakes! But I must admit their fishtanks are VERY nice!

The fish tanks at this one are great, but they should get out of all other livestock they sell.

There is this one guy at my store that gets on my nerves soooo badly. He's a little spoiled brat, who gets an animal and likes it until he loses interest. I want to wave a giant fishnet at him and tell him to get away from the reptiles! Sadly, I can't do that. He works there and I have to work with him. He says all these ridiculous things about snakes! Oh, and once he sent a bp home with SAND. Sand. SAND. To go on the bottom of the snake's home. True, the owner should have done his/her research and known, but...SAND?!!

My wife worked at a petland, and although it def. wasn't the best place it wasn't horrible. The reptile areas went up alot after her being there, and me going in every other day and making sure they stayed up on it. Before she left the store though they got a bad mite infection in their balls, and wouldn't do anything but soak them in water every now and then and the manager was like well, no big deal. Someone will buy them and then it's there problem and we wont let it happen with our next batch of them. I tried informing her that even if she removed those 3 balls and put 3 new in there, they'd get the mites too...**sighs** Oh well. You cant help everyone.

cant we report them to Peta or something, Isnt that a form of animal abuse? I thought you could get jail time for that or at least nice fines for each instance.

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Originally Posted by darkdreamer

cant we report them to Peta or something, Isnt that a form of animal abuse? I thought you could get jail time for that or at least nice fines for each instance.

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No no, not PETA, they'd just kill all the animals there. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Sausage

No no, not PETA, they'd just kill all the animals there. :rolleyes:

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Unfortunately most of these pet stores put profit before the animal. It really is sad, too. What sucks even more is that there are some great mom & pop type stores that have great animals being given great care; however, they usually get run out of business byt these big chain stores. Oh well, not much we can do I suppose.