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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
I got some this week and when I went to feed them, it looked like the bag was a crime scene. This one mouses whole upper body was covered in blood.
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
If you wanna look at this in a positive light, I'm sure the snakes LOVE the smell of rat piss. Mmmmm, food.
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
Originally Posted by chz
Didn't know Petco had a policy against selling live mice as "feeders". Everytime I buy live from them I specifically say "can i get a feeder mouse."
Same here... I'm guessing that's just a local policy, or the person in the store feeling sorry for the mice/rats... I'm currently buying 13 live mice a week for my 6 snakes while I wait for my breeder mice to get going (got one preggo for sure, hopefully she'll pop this week). I ran the "reputable" pet shop right out of mice in 3 weeks, so I'm waiting for them to get caught up... In the mean time I went to PetCo last week to get them ($2.50 each.. ugh...) and while boxing them up the girl asked me, "So, what're you feeding these to?"
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
As for the petco policy on the feeders, it really isn't a policy. Its the manager, or one of the managers. I don't even argue with him on the subject. Plus their live animals aren't the best quality either.
Joanna thats a good idea, I didn't even think of that. I know the owner pretty well, that place has been there for more than 20 years. I don't think she will have a problem doing that, especially if I offer a little more than what she charges considering I'd have to pay shipping anyway to order them.
If not then I will check out a few places online that were recommended.
They are putting in a Petsmart here too, hopefully that store is nicer than the petco we have.
There is a Petsmart out in spokane but I don't like driving out there, that store is always immaculte, great customer service there, the animals are kept very clean and they always look great, they house most of the reptiles seperately provide hides, proper temps. I just wish they were closer. Its always a good experience going there when I am already in the area.
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
at my petco its not a policy to not sell live feeders but the persons personall prefrence we had this one girl who yelled at everyone that came in the store to buy live feeders and thats one of our biggest sellers well needless to say she was fired because of the revenue we lost from her saying that cuz the people refused to buy frozen but since she has been gone we got all those people back. and for the matter of the petsmarts around here they wont sell live feeders period
not to get off subject but if your working at a petstore the point is to keep the animals in a healthy safe enviornment just
like you would your own pets that being said thats how i keep all the animals at the petco i work at. and i keep getting repeat customers since they see how much i genreally care for the animal an thats all they say to my managers.
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
Originally Posted by Kristy
As for the petco policy on the feeders, it really isn't a policy. Its the manager, or one of the managers. I don't even argue with him on the subject. Plus their live animals aren't the best quality either.
Joanna thats a good idea, I didn't even think of that. I know the owner pretty well, that place has been there for more than 20 years. I don't think she will have a problem doing that, especially if I offer a little more than what she charges considering I'd have to pay shipping anyway to order them.
If not then I will check out a few places online that were recommended.
They are putting in a Petsmart here too, hopefully that store is nicer than the petco we have.
There is a Petsmart out in spokane but I don't like driving out there, that store is always immaculte, great customer service there, the animals are kept very clean and they always look great, they house most of the reptiles seperately provide hides, proper temps. I just wish they were closer. Its always a good experience going there when I am already in the area.
I have yet to find a petsmart that sells mice and small rats, other than the overpriced frozen ones...
Since you're in the northwest, check out Slippery Creek Ranch. They are based in Renton, WA (right down the road from me, basically) and sell at good prices. If you were local, Billy would even deliver to you for free...
Jim
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
Yeah, you won't find live feeders at Petsmart. They only sell frozen. And I agree they are way to expensive even with my employee discount. I suppose if you really wanted a mouse or rat you could just act like you where buying it as a pet but I don't think I'd want to play $8 for 1 feeder mouse.
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
Yeah I won't be looking for live feeders, not since I have Houdini on f/t finally.
I'm about 45 minutes from Spokane though, I am not sure how far Renton from here.
I will figure something out, I am going to talk to the Local Petstore owner first about seeing if I can buy in bulk from her. Then we will go from there.
Once that Reptile Specialty store opens I may have some more local options. I think he is planning on having us order from the company, then bringing in our receipt for a in store credit for shipping charges. Not sure how I feel about that.
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
Originally Posted by Kristy
I'm about 45 minutes from Spokane though, I am not sure how far Renton from here.
About 6 hours. They ship though.
Jim
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Re: Anyone buy frozen feeders from petco?
Ah on a side note we're getting someone to look into the reptile situation at the Petco I work at. The grooming department is in enough trouble (in a fiasco over which spritz we were allowed to use on dogs, of all things), so we figured we'd go for broke. We've had absolutely NO luck with the local humane society (a really sad story about an Akita, so we're not even going to bother going to them about snakes), so we're trying a few other routes.
Hopefully the situation will be remedied soon
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