Pet Store Hater

I know how you feel... I visited a store, Pet Safari, in Tampa recently with my fiancee and one of her friends. I won't go down the laundry list of complaints, but it suffices to say that they were pretty terrible. The poor ball python was in a 20L with repti-carpet, urate and feces everywhere, no hide *at all*, and soaking in its water bowl because it had mites crawling on its head. I was tempted to buy it as a rescue effort, and my fiancee urged me to, but I realized that financing the store wouldn't help. They would just replace that poor python with another equally miserable and poorly cared for snake.

I just thought of this... do you have a local TV news station that does "street beat"? We have one here in Jacksonville that was hosted by Ken Amaro called "On Your Side". It's a section in the local TV news that highlights bad businesses and good businesses from viewer reports. My husband's sister-in-law got screwed by a car dealership one time and so she called Ken Amaro. Ken immediately called the dealership and it took, literally, 2 minutes and the dealership cleaned up their act! They were too scared to be put on TV, I guess. Anyway, if you got something like that in Houston, it would be worth a shot to give them a call and see if they can highlight this bad business in the news!

I'm actually surprised how hard it is to report pet stores. On the Michigan gov's website, they give quite clear instructions on how to report a pet store for negligence and and abuse.

Here close to my home town there is a pet store called Pet's Paradise. They were well known for fresh water fish, and apparently are stand up in that department, but EVERYTHING ELSE SUFFERS.

We are talking puppy mill supporters; always had those mutts for sale! At least a dozen on hand all the time!

Reptiles were terrible. No humidity, one lamp, ton to a cage. I remember walking in and seeing a PILE of baby bp's, with at least one dead one at the bottom of the pile, and a mouse wandering around in the enclosure. :mad:

On top of that, their bird sections sucked, they kept primates in very small cages, and the small animals were all crammed in too small of enclosures and often sick. I unfortunately did not know what a healthy rat was and bought most of my founding stock from this store. Needless to say, they were very poor rats to breed. My Petco females were large and very healthy girls, dwarfing the rats from this store.


So yes!!!! I feel your pain, luckily this Pet's Paradise went out of business, and I hope they stay closed!!!

I do not put up with bad petstores, if theres a problem I tell them and hope that they fix it while im there. Once they had some Terrapins with some painted turtles and red eared sliders, I told them not to mix these because every time I went in another Terrapin was dead with a red eared slider chewing on it. The manager said he will not mix them anymore thankfully because it was a nightmare for them.

Ive been kicked out of a few petstores ( Petzone, Petstore in mall for example) for arguing so much, not that id like to go back and so far one of them has been closed down.

Keep working on it, in time something should change.

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Originally Posted by zackw419

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ever been to petsuplenty (sp)? I used to go there, in Houston. I think they might have closed down. They have a poisonous snake room. They told me to put my BP on gravel as bedding! I believed them at the time because I didn't know as much as I do now.

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Man that's horrible... gravel; amazing.


I think those poisonous snakes are extremely rare, and not in captivity at all...sounds a little suspicious. ;)

Yeah, I have no clue how they got them. They had black and green mambas, spitting cobras, pit vipers..all that junk.

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Originally Posted by zackw419

Yeah, I have no clue how they got them. They had black and green mambas, spitting cobras, pit vipers..all that junk.

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I meant the fact that they had poisonous snakes, instead of venomous. ;)

Although there are some poisonous snakes... just never seen one, only once on TV.

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Originally Posted by DutchHerp

I meant the fact that they had poisonous snakes, instead of venomous. ;)

Although there are some poisonous snakes... just never seen one, only once on TV.

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Lol I get it now, took me a while to catch on :D

I have tried and tried everything. I can't get brothers pets to change. They have been and always will be a horrible store.

Oh my brothers, lets go and have a real horrorshow time at this merzky establishment. Lets go Matt my droog we will have a guff at the devotchkas and malchicks that work for this establishment. We will have a tolchok the store and its employees until they are all spoogy. Then we will save all the reptiles and escape before the millicents arrive. It will be a fun razkass to tell. :D