Quote Originally Posted by steveboos View Post
I also work at PetSmart and i believe me and Jay have been through this once before on the site.

It's a policy made for the best interest of the customers and shareholders. They want to promote a good image of animals and PetSmart does a great job of that. If someone walked into my store and asked if we had live feeders, I would reply "No, but we carry frozen feeders if you snake eachs frozen, if he eats live, try another pet store." Most customers don't mind and will leave knowing that just down the street is another store where they can buy as many as they want. We charge $10 for a rat and $7 for a mouse because people use them as feeders.

If your going to be sneaky and sleezy and try to con an employee into selling you a mouse for a feeder AND pay $7 for ONE MOUSE, then your the idiot and nothing else needs to be said. I get my adult mice for $.50 and can get a large rat for $1.75, but i digress.

I work at a PetSmart and have 7 snakes at home, so if you have any questions about them, i will gladly help out, but just don't expect for us to sell you live food. I always recomend what is best for the owner and snake a like, so the situation will vary my answer.

Don't hate on all Stores just because you had a bad expierience at ONE of them. Do you know how many thousands of stores we have??
But can you explain then why they sell feeder gold fish, feeder guppies, feeder rosies, feeder crickets etc? Just seems like a double standard to me. Furry pets are not allowed to be feeders but the cold blooded ones are fine?

I personally don't have a problem with someone refusing to sell me anything in their store, it's their store and they can sell to whoever they want to. It's the sneers and derision I get from merely asking that I'm not fond of. I can say from personal experience that I've been more rudely treated in petsmarts then in any other store I've ever been in. And I don't just mean pet stores, I mean ANY store. It's almost as if their company policy gives their employees a right to be rude.