2 Rescues from local Petsmart (pictures)

Heres what I saw the last time I was in Petsmart...

Did I want to buy him and give him a good home? Yes
But like others have said, it would only free up the space to add another BP to suffer.
I used to work at petsmart, if they sell a certain number of animals by a certain time then on the next order they get to up the quantity...its a horrible cycle.

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Sad Petsmart BP by zombiecupcake155, on Flickr

The bp's go fast at our petsmart here sadly :(
The bp's at our petland have sat for a long time, there is a spider ($590) and 3 normals($130) all look like the one above, stuck shed etc.
It's sad and I hope someone who buys them will know what to do to fix them. It seems like every single snake that sheds there has a bad one.

I noticed the other day that the local pmarts here advertise their bps as captive hatched. I used to work at one....I hate their policy. All they're allowed to do is throw f/t mice in a cup of hot water, put the snake in a critter keeper with nothing in it and an unreg uth under it (sometimes), and throw them food. If they don't eat f/t, too bad. I dunno if the CH part plays into it, but very few eat.

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Originally Posted by moonlightgdess

I noticed the other day that the local pmarts here advertise their bps as captive hatched. I used to work at one....I hate their policy. All they're allowed to do is throw f/t mice in a cup of hot water, put the snake in a critter keeper with nothing in it and an unreg uth under it (sometimes), and throw them food. If they don't eat f/t, too bad. I dunno if the CH part plays into it, but very few eat.

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yup.
When I worked there, I couldnt even count how many hatchlings have DIED because they refuse to feed them live prey. Petsmart would rather have a snake die than to FEED it what nature intended...its sickening.

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Originally Posted by mues155

Heres what I saw the last time I was in Petsmart...

Did I want to buy him and give him a good home? Yes
But like others have said, it would only free up the space to add another BP to suffer.
I used to work at petsmart, if they sell a certain number of animals by a certain time then on the next order they get to up the quantity...its a horrible cycle.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7...b560b3a0e9.jpg
Sad Petsmart BP by zombiecupcake155, on Flickr

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this snake is lucky compared to the poor babies at my local petco. They are always skin and bones with RI's and humidity is never above 30% no matter how much I chastise them. The babies might not even be skin and bones, the could be less seeing as they always have so much stuck shed the look like they're covered in a thick layer of white wax. There's almost always one dead and I've even seen some cannabalism. Oh, and don't even get me started on their columbian rainbow boas. I've even filed reports of animal abuse... It only changed for five :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:ing days!

Sadly in New Mexico, reptiles aren't considered animals…. So it's very hard to get anything done about reptiles in poor conditions. Believe me I have tried. I try to talk (kindly!) to the employees and managers if I see an issue, but a few of the stores wouldn't do anything. I write to the main offices in these cases, but I usually get replies from them assuring me that their stores hold their animals first and that they do the best to provide adequate conditions for them. I won't give these stores my money. In general, I try to take my busniess to anywhere other than big pet stores, but sometimes I have to. In these cases, I try to stick to stores that keep their animals in good conditions (and we do have a few that do).

Found these guys a year ago… Haven't set foot in that store since. Manager just didn't care. One of the animals truly looked dead, but I didn't get a picture of that. Pics don't show just how awful the cage was. Waste caked on all the walls…. Smelled awful. Humidity gauge pic didn't come out, but it was at 0.
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And this guy was at a big store in Florida. It was barely able to hold on to me. He was wheezing pretty bad too. The boa wasn't in awful shape yet, but it had quite a bit of stuck shed. Guy tried to tell me that's just how snakes shed their skin, it isn't all at once.
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I am glad that these two snakes specifically have a good home now, but I don't support buying snakes in that condition. As other people said, all it does is fund the next one.

i agree.

when you buy, even at a reduced price, its a purchase, not a rescue, you are taking their problems off their hands, make space free to order new hatchlings (which they will do), and pay for these new hatchlings, which will go into exactly the same bad situation.

and as a purchase, its not a smart purchase.

real rescues are when you take something from an individual no longer able to properly care for it. or when you go to a legitimate reptile sanctuary and take something off their hands.

It seems that from the OPs point if view, this was a rescue, as that is where his intentions were. Sometimes you just can't walk away from an animal that is suffering, and he is trying to do the right thing for them.


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I had a similar situation at a local Feed Store, I would go in there to purchase horse grain and week after week I would see this poor little emaciated normal and over and over again I would preach to the people working there about humidity and feeding. I finally could not take it anymore and broke down and paid the 60 dollar asking price and took the little girl home. After having RI and mites a well as a stuck shed she made it, even though I paid more than what I should have, I consider her a rescue. Reptiles are not unlike other animals you pay to rescue I myself have bought horses from negligent owners just to free them from the situation and also when most go to a kennel or shelter they pay an adoption fee but still call the animal a rescue.That store had no business selling reptiles what so ever and was sequentially cited for cruelty for other reptiles they had. As for the big chain stores it is not only reptiles that are treated to sub par care but also the small animals they sell. It will not change until animal advocates push the authorities to do something. I applaud the OP for taking the babies in.