A Day at Petco (Funny stories ahead!)

[scalrtn]

The owner of a local pet store told me it was better to feed live rodents than f/t, because snakes on a f/t diet "tend to get depressed."

[SCWood]

I once had a guy from a local church come knocking while I had Kirby out. He did his whole speech while trying very hard not to look at him halfway through my dog, who was in a cone at the time because of some fungus on his ears, slipped out and I had to chase him down with Kirby still in my hands and all the neighbor kids screaming and making all sorts of noise. I got the dog back inside and then the church man started over... I had a bit of a laugh after he had left.

Omg lol I would've just been like BYE

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[SCWood]

The owner of a local pet store told me it was better to feed live rodents than f/t, because snakes on a f/t diet "tend to get depressed."

Umm....he has some issues lol

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[Bluebonnet Herp]

Depending on where you live, anyway. In Texas the state doesn't mandate permits or chips for any reptiles, though some counties or cities might.

The state of Texas requires an annually renewed permit for any nonnative venomous snakes, in addition to Burmese pythons, African rock pythons, Indian pythons, green anacondas, and reticulated pythons. The recreational ownership permit cost $20 a year. There's also a commercial permit for anyone who intends to sell regulated species that costs $60 to purchase an renew annually. In addition to a permit, record keeping is required for any individuals of the regulated species being kept in the state.
That said, it isn't an unreasonable regulation by any stretch of the word, and is far better to have this piece of regulation as opposed to the draconian garbage that requires an insane insurance policy, specific caging, micro-chipping, random inspections, and to top it off, the permit itself be super expensive.
Also, I've noticed the fact that Texas even has a regulation in the first place greatly benefits USARK's lawsuit against the USFWS.

[Citrus]

Rats are pets too, do you deny selling them to snake owners? I cannot understand why it matters if they are pets or food, extremely hypocritical.

I know some petstores in my area have fancy rats as pets and if they think it's for food they won't sell it to you. I think they have a separate supply of feeders somewhere. Though I don't imagine it would take much effort to trick them. "Yeah I want a pet rat" "ok, cool.... $10.00... Expensive meal... I mean ok!"


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[Daigga]

The state of Texas requires an annually renewed permit for any nonnative venomous snakes, in addition to Burmese pythons, African rock pythons, Indian pythons, green anacondas, and reticulated pythons. The recreational ownership permit cost $20 a year. There's also a commercial permit for anyone who intends to sell regulated species that costs $60 to purchase an renew annually. In addition to a permit, record keeping is required for any individuals of the regulated species being kept in the state.
That said, it isn't an unreasonable regulation by any stretch of the word, and is far better to have this piece of regulation as opposed to the draconian garbage that requires an insane insurance policy, specific caging, micro-chipping, random inspections, and to top it off, the permit itself be super expensive.
Also, I've noticed the fact that Texas even has a regulation in the first place greatly benefits USARK's lawsuit against the USFWS.

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.

[SCWood]

I actually thanked a woman yesterday for not asking for a guy when she needed help out lol

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[Darkbird]

Not so much funny as cool, the first time I ever had reptiles shipped to my house, the FedEx driver actually asked what I was getting and if he could come in and see. Seemed to really enjoy seeing what I had.
All my other stories aren't funny, like more or less getting banned from one store because I told a lady the truth about the iguana she was considering verses the bs the store clerk was feeding her. They didn't appreciate losing a sale to my honesty.

[SCWood]

LOL I had a lady puff up and get mad because I told her green iguanas don't eat crickets. I assured her SOME species of iguana will but green iguanas do not and she still fumed

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[Daigga]

LOL I had a lady puff up and get mad because I told her green iguanas don't eat crickets. I assured her SOME species of iguana will but green iguanas do not and she still fumed

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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.