Are you kidding me?!?! (Rant Warning)

[crazyj83]

Ok so I took my wife and kids out to a few pet stores in the Tulsa area to see what herps they had, and to teach and show the kids how awesome all the reptiles are. Anyways everything was going well, untill... We walked into the Southern Ag store on 71st & Sheridain, did the normal walk through checkin out fish and other animals. We then come to the herp section, nice selection, HOWEVER ! Every damned cage was dirty, most of the humidity was way low, no idea what the temps were and we could tell the poor guys wanted out just to seek better conditions... Now this upset me and I raised a little cain but nothing pissed me off more then this next ordeal, ( be prepaired to get angry ) my wife noticed a tank with 1 sub adult normal bp, 4 '11 baby bps, one looked like a nice green toned pastal, one looked almost cinny and the other was a nice reduced normal, now before I get to the heart breaker they also had a sweet lookin orangy/albino morph burm in with them... Now mind you the tanks were filthy, but I was never going to expect this, the fourth lil bp got handed to me and the idiot that handed him to me said, oh hes shedding, not thinking anything of a shed strike I grabbed the lil guy and immediatly noticed this poor bp was NOT in shed, this guy had one of the worst cases of scale rot I have ever seen... Realizing this I went off on the guy, (nowhere near as hard as I should have ) and made him take the snake back, I immediatly went to the restroom washed my hands clear to elbow amd returned to see this idiot still holding the sick baby and putting the others back into the dirty tank... I told him that they need to keep the bps all seperated and have them all checked out. I also informed him to clean the damn tanks and set the humidity amd temps right. Now to make things worse my wife in the middle of my giving the guy an ear full pointed out to me the bp with scale rot (still beimg help by idiot boy) was dripping slime from its mouth and kept opening its mouth trying to breath. Now we all know what those symthoms mean RI !! I desided that no matter how hard I tried to pound it into this guys head that he needed to either take care of the issue or bring me another butt to chew, I figured I wasn't going to get the responce I wanted so we left the store and I will NEVER go back into any of that companies stores. Now, sorry for the long winded rant but the part that angers me the most is that store has an IN STORE VET CLINIC... Really??!! How the heck can a certified and licenced vet not do checks on all the animals?? Anyways i'm sorry again about this post but I had to vent or a company head was gonna roll... Please feel free to add if you have anything, or have a horror story of your own.