Heartbreaking......:(

[Salamander Rising]

Coming from someone that keeps tarantulas, I imagine the same advice holds true for balls...add heartbreaking as it is, buying him won't help anything. Buying him will show the pet store that they can move the product, and a new one will take his place, only to be neglected and mistreated. If enough of them are not bought, they will stop carrying them. That's better in the long run.

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Be that as it may, it's still torturing the snake and people like me, by proxy.

I understand your point, though.

Problem is, no matter how many die in the store, they get their refund.
Should somebody who wouldn't know it was doomed buy a snake that dies *after* the 14 day "warranty" period, they'll still keep selling them.

Within the warranty period, they return the body to the store, get a "new snake", the store returns the body to the wholesaler and it all starts over again.

These stores don't think like you or I would.

Live or dead, it's still a sale.