PetCo strikes again...

My petco sucks. I went there one time, and went to the reptile section, and asked a person if I could get some crickets (their little cart that they're kept in for selling was out where it always is), and the lady says "No, I'm sorry. They're for our reptiles in the back." and I'm just sitting there thinking, "Then why do you have the cart out here for the public to veiw with a FRIGGIN PRICE ON IT, MA'AM!? Don't you realize people are going to obviously ask you to buy some?". What idiots. Good thing my friends opened up a reliable pet store downtown now. They're the best at taking care of pets, of any sort. My brother also got a job there, and he's a reptile expert, which makes the store even better.

Sounds great Hibi.

I'm lucky to have a pet store near that's great with herps. It used to be that most of their staff were reptile breeders. Their animals are always really well kept. Almost all of their herps are captive bred locally except for anoles and tree frogs (that a breeder imports for them) which they thoroughly quarantine and treat for parasites before they offer them for sale. They also refuse to sell to anyone they feel won't provide a good home for their animals. Also, their frozen mice are all euthanized with carbon dioxide. I always try to buy from them before anyone else. I could have bought my ball python somewhere else cheaper, but this way I can support them while getting the peace of mind that I received a very healthy, thriving snake. Ippo is doing very well by the way. He just ate his 3rd meal with me on Thursday (his 2nd F/T), and had a perfect shed the day before, so I'm more than happy with what I got.

If you do have a good pet store near you, I would recommend you shop there as much as possible and get as many other people to as well. The best thing that we can do short of being activists is to vote for better pet stores with our dollars.

By the way, here is a review of the pet store I go to (although from an aquarist's perspective).
http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/...olk_VAS_V.html

You do have to loves this sales policy though:
http://www.aquarticles.com/images/Fi...s%20policy.jpg

Sounds like a good policy, in theory. But I'd imagine it would be hard to interview every customer on a busy day, even if they were just buying some feeder fish.

That is a good policy and goal. I hope they are able to live up to it.

Hello,
My PETCO is horrible, I don't have time now, but I wil go to another forum and get a story i typed, it's pretty long, but it's all about Stafoord county's PETCO and all it's evilness.
I'll find it soon.
Bye.

-collin

Hey,
I found my post from www.LeoLand.com.
Here it is:

Hello,
The other day I saw a columbian red tail boa with mites all over it a PETCO.
And the PETCO here has a 14" tokay gecko loose in it's wall.
It's been there for 1 year and a half.
The wall is a fake, plastic divider wall, why don't they just take it down?
And other geckos keep escaping, the cages are so dumb.
The other day I saw three house geckos in the plastic wall.
And we know the tokay has to eat to survive right?
You know what the PETCO guy said he eats?
The escaped geckos.
And I saw an iguana hatchling in what must have been a -10 gallon tank.
And there were 5 columbian red tail boas in one cage.
Although the cage was rather large, that's way to many unsexed boas in one cage.
PETCO is dumb, my cousin (who is going to Mary Washington for a vet or something like that is gonna get a job at PETCO, she just turned 18 on Thursday the 17th.
She's gonna straighten them out a bit.
This girl is not afraid of any reptile, the PETCO poeple are probably afraid of the tokay, she'll probably just walk up to it and grab it it.
By the way, they're not mean.
Bye.

There it was, our PETCO is evil.
Bye.

-collin

hhw, that's an awesome sales policy-- you're lucky to have such a good store nearby. It's like everything I stand for and try to uphold.

And Hibi, I've gotten that response before from customers about crickets (we put signs on our bins though). When there's several dozen animals counting on a constant supply of bugs we have to refuse to sell until the next shipment because our animals come first. Customers can always go to another pet store.

Awesome policy there hhw.
Although, if that were the policy for the place where I got my geckos when I was eight, I would never have gotten them, and I'm glad I got them, I just wish I had gottewn them when I was older.
So they would be in better shape now-a-days.

Hey, not to be off topic, but why is my icon so giant?