I went to my local PetCo (The one in Waterford, CT for any of you CT folks) to get a collar for my cat and while I was there I decided to check out their BP's. When I went up to the tank, I noticed a multitude of things that were not okay;
1. One snake had a wound on it's head so bad that you could see it's skull
2. I counted at least 7 snakes in a tank the size of a 20L tank
3. They were infested with mites
4. There was no water in the water dish
5. The PetCo workers were obviously not following their promise of checking on animals once every hour.
6. One snake was really emaciated and obviously underfed
I called and spoke to the manager afterwards and listed my complaints, and he told me that not one, but TWO snakes were injured in the same way. He claimed that they were seen by a vet and that time is what they need to heal. I told the guy that if snakes were injured like that, they needed to be quarantined and not put into a tank for sale.
Here are the pictures:
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