I have fallen in love...

[msoprano]

You know you want to, and she deserves better than what she'll get from Petsmart...............and yes pics

This.

[lidjamay]

I'm seriously thinking about it! They wouldn't let me handle her because she had just eaten. Though the lady kind of made me mad because she immediately started talking down to me about why I couldn't hold her. I felt like telling her off but I didn't I was nice. lol But they did get her a bigger hide thank God! I just need to get my hands on a tank for her then i'll probably pick her up. (I keep saying her but idk if it is a male or female, they don't even know how to sex them there) The boyfriend told me if i got a tank he would buy her for me. I was going to take pictures of her to show him (and y'all) today but since they didn't let me hold her I and she was hiding i couldn't get one.

I knew y'all would understand lol

[llovelace]

Do they have freecycle in your area, I picked up quite a few tanks through there
freecycle.com

[lidjamay]

Do they have freecycle in your area, I picked up quite a few tanks through there

OMG I didn't even think about freecycle, I'm going to look now! thanks!!!!


sadly I can't seem to find any tanks on there I have a friend of mine who breeds Retics asking some of his buddies if they have any just sitting around since thats how I ended up with most of mine now lol

[Egapal]

The big problem with "rescuing" an animal from a pet store is that you are not rescuing the pet. You are buying it. When you pay the pet store for the animal you are telling them with your money that everything they are doing is working just fine and they should go out and get another animal to fill that cage and treat the same way. This isn't craig's list where the person hopefully learns there lesson and thinks twice before getting another animal they can't care for. I know that it seams cruel but the best thing you can do when you see an animal not being cared for is, ask to see a manager. Explain in 1 to 3 sentences clearly and calmly whats wrong with the animals care. Tell the manager that you will stop by to see how the animals are doing but that you will not be spending money at the store until the animals care is corrected. Tell the manager what store you will be spending your money instead. Finally tell the manager that you will be telling everyone who will listen about your experience with the store. By doing this you explain the problem, threaten the manager with one of the only things he cares about, loss of sales, you make it a real threat by telling him where your money will go instead, and you finally threaten the only other thing he cares about, the stores community image.

I vote you take the money you would have spent, find a good online breeder and buy a morph for the same or slightly more money. Lets reward the good guys and not the bad guys.

[Lancerlot109@aol.com]

If you are like me, you will hate yourself later if you don't go back and get her.

For instance, my beloved beagle mix was from a puppy mill I got suckered into driving 4 hours to get to. Lord knows I didn't want to give the woman any of my money after I saw what the place was, but I would never have forgiven myself if I left him there. I justified it by calling the cops on her when I got home with my new puppy.

So I'll be expecting pictures later tonight.

Gale

im so happy you called the police

[python_addict]

if you lived closer i would give you a 20 gallon tank of a 55 gallon tank lol i love rescuing snakes but i havent bought from a pet store yet ive had some babies handed to me since they were all chewed up but i encourage rescuers

[rabernet]

That's how I ended up with my little female bp.
She was in a small display with the substrate all soaked from a spilled water dish and a hide so small she lifted it completely off the substrate by balling up inside it.

"You don't purchase from a chain petstore, you rescue from a chain pet store"

EXCEPT that you aren't rescuing. You're encouraging the continued sale of them. You may THINK you're rescuing one, but what you've really done is create a demand and an open spot for another one.

You come to a point where you realize that you CAN'T save them all, and that by doing so, you're doing a dis-service to another animal who has to fill that demand.

However, with that said, the description of how she was kept doesn't sound awful to me. You'd be surprised just how tight ball pythons want their hides. The temp isn't bad, and the small enclosure is TEMPORARY display housing. It was never intended to be a permanent home for the snake. So of course it won't be how you would keep it.

I am very friendly with the folks at my Petsmart. I have no objection to how they are keeping theirs. They even ask me if I'll sex them for them, so that they can tell potential buyers the gender of the snake. And if they have an interested customer and I'm shopping, they hunt me down to talk to the person about proper housing and care.

If you LOVE her, then get her, but it's really not a rescue. It's a purchase of an animal that was displayed in a manner to draw in the consumer - and it worked.

[rabernet]

OMG I didn't even think about freecycle, I'm going to look now! thanks!!!!


sadly I can't seem to find any tanks on there I have a friend of mine who breeds Retics asking some of his buddies if they have any just sitting around since thats how I ended up with most of mine now lol

Have you considered a tub? Inexpensive and easy to set up, and probably will help the little one settle better than a display type enclosure.

[rabernet]

The big problem with "rescuing" an animal from a pet store is that you are not rescuing the pet. You are buying it. When you pay the pet store for the animal you are telling them with your money that everything they are doing is working just fine and they should go out and get another animal to fill that cage and treat the same way. This isn't craig's list where the person hopefully learns there lesson and thinks twice before getting another animal they can't care for. I know that it seams cruel but the best thing you can do when you see an animal not being cared for is, ask to see a manager. Explain in 1 to 3 sentences clearly and calmly whats wrong with the animals care. Tell the manager that you will stop by to see how the animals are doing but that you will not be spending money at the store until the animals care is corrected. Tell the manager what store you will be spending your money instead. Finally tell the manager that you will be telling everyone who will listen about your experience with the store. By doing this you explain the problem, threaten the manager with one of the only things he cares about, loss of sales, you make it a real threat by telling him where your money will go instead, and you finally threaten the only other thing he cares about, the stores community image.

I vote you take the money you would have spent, find a good online breeder and buy a morph for the same or slightly more money. Lets reward the good guys and not the bad guys.

I agree with everything that you wrote, except for the fact that I didn't read anything that led me to believe the Petsmart that she went to was "bad".

They certainly don't crowd their enclosures with more than 2 animals (at least at my location), unlike Petco who will have multiple animals, too dry, stuck sheds, feces all around.