Why PetCo sucks *to me* ^_^

1. They usually have no clue as to what they are doing.

2. My local petco houses reptiles in tiny cages, with hot rocks for heat.

3. They are way overpriced, on everything from animals to supplies. They want 5$ for 1 brick of EcoEarth when I can go down the street and get a 3 pack for the same price. And their BP's are 80$.

4. My sisters boyfriend works at a petco in Iowa, and he said they have a few MBK's which they house in the same tank. Maybe they will learn there lesson when they notice some are missing. Wonder if it has to do with them being CANNIBALS!

5. They NEVER have enough people working on any given day. Today, a Saturday, they had 1 person on register, and one guy walking around the store answering questions. This one guy had to walk around and wait for 30min to ask this guy to get him something.

Sorry for the rant but they are really getting on my nerves o_O I hate them T_T

I really can't stand petco either. But its alright if your shopping for dog or cat stuff. Man, somebody needs to make a chain of reptile stores. With people who KNOW what they are doing.

Wow that was a fast response FTH ^_^

Oh yeah heres another one:

6. They don't have an adequate system or for getting feeder mice, nor do they have enough o_O I went in today hoping to get just 2 pinkies so I could feed my MBK, and all they had was 2 bags of 10 small rats.
They make you dig into a bag and put what you want in a seperate bag, with your bare hands, and they have soap onthe side of the fridge they keep them in, but no sink anywhere near to wash your hands lol

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they have soap onthe side of the fridge they keep them in, but no sink anywhere near to wash your hands lol

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Hahahahah...
With your bare hands? Ugh, I'm usually not queemish but...dead things....touching dead things...ugh.

The petco nearest to me is actually pretty awsome. Cept the RTB cage could use more heat.

Don't even get me started on our RTB cage, they have about 5-6 in a 10 gallon terrarium and they aren't that small either, though I'm glad your PetCo doesn't suck as much as mine.

My petco sucks!! i saw a baby bp with burns on its back! i hate my petco. it is good for cats dogs and other fury things or is a mamal. but there birds and reptiles are nto taken care for. last time i wasthere the yahd birds flyign aroudn and they were chasing after them with nets!!!! i hate it...only go there for my cats and dog....

Among several other reasons, I have beef with Petco because they don't treat their animals when they need veterinary care. Once while I was on a vet trip with a guinea pig from my store (before our Banfield vet moved in), a girl in the office noticed my green PetsMart shirt and told me she thought it was "so cool" that we treat our sick animals. Evidently the local Petco she used to work at just left their animals in a back stock room to wait for them to die instead of having them looked at by a vet. Isn't that horrible? I was so disguted I didn't know what to say to her.

I have no experience with PetCo(yet...:shock: ) but if I ever go into one and see snakes being kept in small cages together with heat rocks to burn them, and other bad neglectful things like that, I'd probably find management or someone to talk to, and tell them the stuff they're doing wrong, and explain to them how it can harm the pets. By the end of the rant/schooling, they'd probably be baffled at my (common sense)knowledge and want to hire me. And maybe I'd take the job, and try to fix up that PetCo. Sadly, that doesn't change the others that don't have a clue what they're doing. :x

I personally think that Petco and PetSmart have no business selling exotics at all. Unless weekly they have someone coming in to check on the animals, and able to fire slackers. I never see this kind of BS at mom and pop run stores, quite the contrary. The PetCo around me isn't half bad, even somewhat good, but the other two chain stores blow big time.

I'd also like to see them get a 500$ fine for every animal that dies due to their severe negligence.

Maybe we could picket the store, LOL! The th9ing that stinks is I can't do anything about it. I'm too young for them to even really care about my opinion. Grrrrr...petco drives me crazy.

I do not even go into petco anymore. I am sick of their dehydrated Bps and boas. I tried telling the workers about it, and they swear up n' down that they'll fix it, but it never happens. So I just shop at my local fish store (owned by a great friend of mine who knows her stuff and listens to advice if she doesn't).

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I'm too young for them to even really care about my opinion. Grrrrr...petco drives me crazy.

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Some petstore workers are so ignorant and closed-minded. Even if you were 80, they would still ignore you! They will not listen. I giveup. :(

Actually I think most stores and people shouldn't sell exotics. They don't know what there doing and they really arent gonna invest the money in all the different types of things each different type of exotic needs.
Most stores, Corp. or mom and pop figure they will turn it over fairly quick so don't need to spend the $ to make things they way they should be.
I went into a mom and pop here and at first I thought Wow this place is great until I went in the back and they had a 7' boa in a cage about 3'x2'x2' and another even bigger in the same size. Then I see a cool looking rat snake and his eye is all messed up, looked like retained eye cap from a long time ago.
Anyway I tell the girl and she says " oh it's been like that for a year that's why he isn't for sale" and I ask her why the hell in a years time they haven't taken it to the vet and she just gave me one of those 18 yo old eye rolls and looks like I was an a**.
My Petco comes and goes with good and bad depending on who is working there. The new guys there are way into repitles and all own several different kinds and are trying but the same bp's and boas have been there for months and now arent looking to good at all. It breaks my heart everytime I go in there. I just want to take them all home.

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Originally Posted by First_time_herp

Hahahahah...
With your bare hands? Ugh, I'm usually not queemish but...dead things....touching dead things...ugh.

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LOL....you're gonna have to get used to handling dead things when you get your snake. It seemed distasteful to me as well, but turned out to be no big deal at all.

Well yeah, I'm probably goign ot pick up some ice from my local pet shop in a few weeks. That will be the last thing I buy.

My roomates girlfriend used to work at petco and that's exactly what they used to do - put the sick or dying animals in the back or in the fridge/freezer rather than pay the have them looked at by a vet or whatever because it was cheaper than vet bills and the suppliers would usually send another animal if they could produce a corpse and blame it on shipment.

that's sickening.

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that's exactly what they used to do - put the sick or dying animals in the back or in the fridge/freezer rather than pay the have them looked at by a vet or whatever because it was cheaper than vet bills

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Thats more than sickening its, well, horrilbe!

Yeah... I already posted that I wish the sale of all animals was left up to specialized breeders. I've had a few people tell me that they're not real fond of their local Petsmart stores. I wish I could control it all but I can only do so much. However, if any body ever sees something wrong with an animal or it's habitat in a Petsmart store, there should be our 800 # careline that customers are welcome to call to report any wrong doing. If the number isn't posted on or around the habitats it's probably for a reason... and the manager should be notified.

Our regional specialty managers are really great-- they get on everyone's behind about our animals' care and maintenance. If a call comes in about one of our stores you can bet they'll receive an unexpected visit to catch whatever is going on. Store directors can be pretty spineless and boneheaded some times but the regional managers really kick ass if something isn't right. Ok, I'm done... for now ;)

Keep in mind that I'm not saying every PetCo is or was this way, but I have yet to be in a PetCo that takes excellent care of their reptiles though I know a few of you other posters have PetCos that do a good job near you.

I'm going to have to check out my new Petco and see how they do. I hope it's not as bad as some of you have been posting about yours. If so, it might be worth it to make the trip to my old Petco instead.

Yeah, my only experience with PetCo is that they had a BCI that they said would not get any bigger than 8 feet, which could possibly be VERY false. They also had a baby BP sittin in a huge tank & its only hide was a half log that probably wouldn't even have made a sub-adult feel safe! I mean this little guy was a baby baby! Oh, & they had left a fresh (albeit partial) shed laying under the log for Lord only knows how long! I am not a real fan of PetCo!