to pick up a couple baby rats to keep as pets. She brought along her friend who just picked up a baby ball from Petco/PetSmart. She started asking me about my snakes enclosures, "Have they been in those bins for their whole lives? I'm trying to make mine grow." I explained that they are very lazy animals and sleep all the time and that was the enclosure that works best for my snakes. She seemed very snide but wasn't rude. She then goes on to tell me that her boyfriend was trying to get their ball on a diet of salmon and betta fish. I was like I didn't really want to get into the problems that could arise from this kind of behavior, so I kept talking about how little I actually knew about husbandry and feeding before I came to this site. It's hard to educate people who don't know anything about the species and don't care to learn. I felt so bad for her snake I gave her a few of my weanlings, hoping that she would feed him those instead of trying to force it to eat a betta fish...

Once she left I felt stupid for giving the rats to her but I just couldn't not give them to her. I'm hoping she will find this site, but I'm not sure that I was assertive enough :/ I know I didn't do anything good by giving her free meals and now I feel just dumb.


Sorry for the rant but no one else understood why this upset me so much, and I know all you guys will get where I'm coming from.