So...this just happened maybe 3 min ago.
For those of you unaware, i work the small animal section at petsmart. This covers all the animals in cages there that arent cats.
A man came up to me, asking about a BP. He said that he had bought it here a year ago, and that it had only grown about 3-4 in in that time. This of course was a red flag and i managed to get him to buy a larger rodent size for it, but this isnt the thing that ticked me off.
He started talking about how he used to have a 9ft burmese when he lived out in florida, what he fed it, etc etc. Was a sort of interesting conversation, though I had the feeling this guy wasnt up to keeping one properly. Of course, everything was fine until the end when he said "Eventually, around 10ft i couldnt keep it anymore, so we released it into the wild so it could live with the other pythons out there."
Hes already out the door, but it took a LOT of control not to tell this man about how bad of an idea that was. Im starting to think he thought that they were native to the wild like that. My boss almost apparently went off on him as well.
Needless to say, people like that are why I feel reptile keepers like us get a bad rap.
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