For the most part my local Petco is a good one with all around healthy animals. Only recently did i go in there for some bedding my herps store had run out of and i saw they have a young water dragon with an injured nose/lip. Poor thing looks like it ran into something and its upper lip is sticking up funny, is red and it keeps sticking its tongue out..

Everything else always seems clean & well taken care of there. The snakes too when they have them. Even the fish dept is excellent compared to my petsmart.

Petsmart on the other hand, always has unhealthy looking animals. Especially the fish. Which is a huge factor for me since i have a large aquarium. But i only buy my fish from a local small family owned aquarium store. Even so. I believe if any part of a store is unclean or has unhealthy/dead animals in it, it reflects the entire store even if every other dept looks good.

I generally stay away from those stores. I go to petco for my dog/cat food and the occasional bedding material. For everything else i go to the small family owned shops. Im lucky enough to have a herp shop and an aquaruim shop near me.