A cricket eating BP?!?!

[zantedeschia]

If it was a Petco or a Petsmart, call the number on your receipt. Complain. Be specific. Name names if you remember them. You may get a followup call in a few days from the store manager.

If you have a receipt that has a survey coupon, call the number. Give less than perfect feedback. Tell them you're appalled employees are giving such horrid husbandry advice. They will fix it.

[chapskis1]

It's a losing battle -- they'll just replace him with another moron.

I purely do it for entertainment anyway -- just to see if they come up with a good line I can post on here!

[JLC]

The world is full of people who just don't know. Some might even really care, but they just don't know. Some don't ever care to know in the first place. All we can do is plant the seeds of responsible keeping. Those seeds will flourish within the ones who care. BUT...if you go around slamming every ignorant soul you come across, those seeds are just thrown away and won't ever reach the fertile soil of those willing to learn.

[zantedeschia]

It's a losing battle -- they'll just replace him with another moron.

No it's not. It's superbad for them to get a complaint. When I complained about a BP that had retained head shed (that had been like that at least a month) and an employee brushed me off about it, I both called and sent email about it (to Petco corporate). Less than a week later the manager called me to tell me they had taken it to the vet and had the stuck shed removed. Talking to the store manager first is not the best move. You have to go over their heads.

And yes, the employee that brushed me off told me something stupid. He told me they soaked the python every day to deal with the shed issue. I was later told they didn't do that, and the employee was "confused". Hopefully he was fired too.

[Moofins07]

This same situation happened at one of my local chains, only with a corn snake. They still regularly fed it fuzzies and such, but they still insisted on throwing in small crickets, anyway. Sigh.

[dc4teg]

I was buying a rat today at one of my favorite pet stores today, only because they have a varity of snakes, and I looked for the bp enclosure, they havent had any for the past 3 months but It was feeding day, when i looked in the cage I saw 3, 2 feet long bps and 3 mouse hoppers... it was sad... they lost my respect...