A Day at Petco (Funny stories ahead!)

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Originally Posted by Daigga

Lol, why would she be mad about that? Makes them cheaper to feed, honestly. Crickets get expensive fast, particularly when you factor in how much food disappears into an adult iguana. Our growing beardie would happily eat through 20 dollars worth of crickets in a week if we let her, and the smaller of the two iguanas I had grew to easily 6 times her size if not more.

People don't need animals if they can't even be bothered to research the dietary needs.

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My family hates ours already because she likes salad so I make her some every morning. They want her to eat only pellets because supposedly their old iguana lived off only pellets

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Originally Posted by SCWood

My family hates ours already because she likes salad so I make her some every morning. They want her to eat only pellets because supposedly their old iguana lived off only pellets

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It's like living on nothing but chicken nuggets. Possible, but don't expect to live a long and healthy life if you do.

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Originally Posted by Daigga

It's like living on nothing but chicken nuggets. Possible, but don't expect to live a long and healthy life if you do.

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Lol that's a good way of putting it

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Yeah I still don't see how only selling "feeders" for food makes a difference from buying and feeding any thing else you buy for food. So it's not "labeled" as food, I'm sure the folks selling them just want to get paid and it keeps business moving for them. There really is no "higher ground" or something for "pets" sold as non-food items. It's not as if we are trying to breed an endangered species.

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Originally Posted by Daigga

Ah, can I ask you to point me to where you found this? It's gotten to where I've just been considering going to a lawyer every time I need to find out if keeping or selling certain animals is legal. The last website I found with laws by state only said it's legal to own pretty much any reptile in Texas, and the only permits it mentioned were for breeding non native deer species. Obviously I'm looking in the wrong places.

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Controlled Exotic Snake Permit (a.k.a. Nonindigenous Snake Permit)

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Originally Posted by Boomerang

Yeah I still don't see how only selling "feeders" for food makes a difference from buying and feeding any thing else you buy for food. So it's not "labeled" as food, I'm sure the folks selling them just want to get paid and it keeps business moving for them. There really is no "higher ground" or something for "pets" sold as non-food items. It's not as if we are trying to breed an endangered species.

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It has to do with how prey animals are treated until death. Some people would rather sell off dead rats that were humanely and specifically killed to be feeders as opposed to selling a live rodent intentionally as food and knowing only what sort of unholy treatment awaits it. (contrary to popular belief, there's quite a few people out there who treat feeders abusively and like utter crap because they think it doesn't matter that it feels pain because it's going to die anyway - youtube is proof enough of this) And there's quite a few people out there who are against live feeding as well - including many reptile keepers. There's some people who just hate it because they're emotional softies, while many of the aforementioned reptile/exotic pet keepers see it as just an unnecessary process full of risks and unneeded suffering, also claiming the "nature" argument is a logical fallacy lacking any weight or rational basis.
And look at it from their perspective - it must really mean something to them if they go so far as to actually deny a sale to the customer. Same could be said of people who deny the sale of something like an iguana because the potential customer planned to feed it crickets and rats. If it bothers you so much, either buy their dead rodents or go to another store.

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Originally Posted by Boomerang

Yeah I still don't see how only selling "feeders" for food makes a difference from buying and feeding any thing else you buy for food. So it's not "labeled" as food, I'm sure the folks selling them just want to get paid and it keeps business moving for them. There really is no "higher ground" or something for "pets" sold as non-food items. It's not as if we are trying to breed an endangered species.

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Let me put it this way: ever see a rat rack? Simple, dark, and cheap right? Made so a reptile owner can save money on feeders. They are kept in the absolute minimum way, ensuring that they will live until they are selected to be fed. Now, have you ever seen a pet rat cage? If cared for correctly, it will have multiple levels, food dish, hides, wood and things to chew, water bottle, even a wheel. This pet rat will be held everyday and most likely chill out on the owners shoulder most of the time. It will great the owner when he or she comes near the cage. It's a cruel difference, but this is what sets them apart. A feeder, cared for with minimal (not necessarily bad) requirements will cost you no more than $2.00 and that's for a big rat. A fancy rat/dumbo rat will cost $10.00-$20.00 and is meant to live 5-7 years and bring someone joy.


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Originally Posted by Citrus

Let me put it this way: ever see a rat rack? Simple, dark, and cheap right? Made so a reptile owner can save money on feeders. They are kept in the absolute minimum way, ensuring that they will live until they are selected to be fed. Now, have you ever seen a pet rat cage? If cared for correctly, it will have multiple levels, food dish, hides, wood and things to chew, water bottle, even a wheel. This pet rat will be held everyday and most likely chill out on the owners shoulder most of the time. It will great the owner when he or she comes near the cage. It's a cruel difference, but this is what sets them apart. A feeder, cared for with minimal (not necessarily bad) requirements will cost you no more than $2.00 and that's for a big rat. A fancy rat/dumbo rat will cost $10.00-$20.00 and is meant to live 5-7 years and bring someone joy.

Edit: though I get what you mean. My reptile shop has a few coral snakes that won't eat anything so they have to feed them baby corn snakes that aren't eating.
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Originally Posted by Bluebonnet_Herp

It has to do with how prey animals are treated until death. Some people would rather sell off dead rats that were humanely and specifically killed to be feeders as opposed to selling a live rodent intentionally as food and knowing only what sort of unholy treatment awaits it. (contrary to popular belief, there's quite a few people out there who treat feeders abusively and like utter crap because they think it doesn't matter that it feels pain because it's going to die anyway - youtube is proof enough of this)

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TY soooo much for not posting a video. I don't see how people can treat their feeders badly.... Granted I only have 1 BP but still... I have a cage, wheel, bowls, food, burrowing and hiding stuff for when my girl decides to not eat... It makes me sad to think of people being that way to any creature... :tears:

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Originally Posted by anicatgirl

TY soooo much for not posting a video. I don't see how people can treat their feeders badly.... Granted I only have 1 BP but still... I have a cage, wheel, bowls, food, burrowing and hiding stuff for when my girl decides to not eat... It makes me sad to think of people being that way to any creature... :tears:

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Me too! I certainly don't condone cruel behavior either! When ANYTHING in our store dies, including the fish, most of us do feel for them. And we always give people the option to return them if their snake refuses to even kill them.

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