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    Salesmen of the year award goes to...

    When you are new to something and you are reading a lot about it if you find certain things repeated over and over they tend to stand out. One of the things I’ve noticed here and elsewhere is an overall impression that pet store workers are not very knowledgeable about herps. This is not exactly true, in fact it’s a bit like saying Bill Gates has made a little money.



    I’ve been going back and forth to a local pet store trying to work out the heating issues I’ve been having. So I’m at the check out getting a new larger UTH (which btw has worked out very nicely) and the clerk asks if I need any dog food or cat food, (which I think is kind of a strange question considering I’m buying something obviously for a reptile). I say “No thanks, I don’t think my snake would care for Alpo.” Making it kind of a joke because he’s missed the obvious.



    I’m expected you know, a chuckle or something, but no, the guy says to me completely serious (and this is verbatim). “You know, some larger snakes eat dog food for the extra protein.”



    I just stared at him for a second and then said very politely, “Um, I’m pretty sure that rat you have in the cage over there is about all the protein he’s going to need.”






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    Re: Salesmen of the year award goes to...

    um...ok so are you trying to make a point that "most" pet shop workers are or are not very knowledgable??

    Funny story at the end though.
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    Wink Re: Salesmen of the year award goes to...

    lol... sorry Warren, I guess my rather dry scarcasm doesn't cross over very well in print. I was saying the guy was more interested in trying to sell some dog food then he was in knowing about what a BP might want for din din.

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    Re: Salesmen of the year award goes to...

    I know some monitors eat wet dog food, but never a snake - that's just laughable.

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    Re: Salesmen of the year award goes to...

    Oh lordy! What will some folks think of next to try and push stuff on people that they don't need or is outright wrong or dangerous (in the case of heat rocks).

    Hope you kept a straight face till you got out of the pet store LOL.


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