Pet Store Hater

[littleindiangirl]

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.

AWESOME. 5 stars for that!

[disabled.101]

A Clockwork Orange, an amazing book and an amazing movie

[Soterios]

Don't be foolish. Not all pet stores are bad.

If you reported legitimate negligence, good for you. If you're blowing a bad experience out of proportions, keep in mind the consequences before you act.

[littleindiangirl]

Don't be foolish. Not all pet stores are bad.

If you reported legitimate negligence, good for you. If you're blowing a bad experience out of proportions, keep in mind the consequences before you act.

When you know what a healthy animal looks and acts like, it's hard to mistake negligence.

And what are the consequences of reporting concerns? That the pet store gets checked out? Sounds okay by me!

[Jenn]

My hometown pet store isn't all that bad. They buy mice and rats from me and they listen when I teach them about BP husbandry.

They call me the snake wisperer because one day I went there and every single employee had been called in to search for the missing BP. They had been searching all three floors and the basement for about three hours when I walked in and turned over a display hide on a shelf right next to the empty enclosure!

[DavidG]

I didn't get to read every response. Matt, it sounds like calling your group is a good thing. The problem with carpets is that they are such a skinny snake they don't look like they would eat much more than a fuzzy when they need a small adult mouse. Something not too many pet shops know. The red on the tail is a red flag though (no pun intended) and should be dealt with properly by a vet.

Racks are bad! I have to agree. They are bad because the pet shop can not get them at a reasonable price to market them for you to buy! These people are there to make money. If you're buying a 300 dollar rack instead of their over priced glass cages, plus their lighting, bedding, and everything else they lose money.

I'm lucky enough to be fairly close to a pet shop that is very well taken care of with a small staff of volunteers who make it awesome. I go in on most Saturdays to help out, as I work a full time job Mon-Fri. On occasion I take in a carpet or chondro and no one even cares. I walk around with it, explain it to the customers. Knowledge is the best tool you can have, without it you would be no where. I learn something new every day and I think it is great. Matt, do not let close minded pet store owners get you down. Take appropriate measures and keep us posted!

[DutchHerp]

David,

I don't know all that much about how big carpets are at specific ages, but it was at least 5 feet. It was extremely skinny though, I could see the spine. I would be feeding the animal small-medium rats.

I wish I was close to a pet store like that. And the shops do bring me down... I can't stand to see animals created unfairly. It hurts me because I love all animals and it's just plain unfair.

I could finally get the number of the investigator but I got voice mail... I'll try again tomorrow.

Wish me luck.

[disabled.101]

You think its worth it to attempt to save it?

[DavidG]

Ahhh, Most pet stores just carry juvies so I was going off that. You know what that say about assuming.... <It really does

[bobbi]

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.

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 feel the same about pet paradise! and im in ontario canada! i went in to check things out and was totaly blown away by the awful conditions, they had female scorpions crawling around on what looked like old snake bedding that had bad shed all mixed through it, the one and only BP in the place looked as if it was on its last breath i asked the hatch date of the snake and all they said was WE HAVE NO IDEA! poor little guy had no hide, and no heat source and was covered in stuck shed. your right the fish looked like they were the only things being taken care of in the place.