a bad petco experience

[Salamander Rising]

Just got home from petco but whil I was there I was looking at their snakes and see this albino corn that has been there for a while soaking and had mites all over it. Then I see he RTBs and there were 2 of them but one didn't look right and right next to it was urates and what looked like a tumor that had been passed or something of that sort. 1 of the RTBs looked good but really underweight and I was pretty sure the other one was dead. So I made the staff open up the tank and he did and then just looked at the RTB like I ain't touching it so my wife just reached in and grabbed it and handed it off to me. The boa was freezing cold and I told my wife and she said it was 65 degrees. I felt the bottom of the tank and it was cold as well. I then noticed mites crawling onto my hand from the boa. And told the guy that he needs to move them t a warmer tank and that the corn and boa can't be near other animals because the bins at petco are 3 tanks wide with dividers and mites could easily spread to the other animals. I was so mad and was just trying to warm this bao up with my body heat while the petco worker cleaned and removed the dead snake from the tank. Then made him call his boss who has good snake knowledge to make sure this problem gets fixed. I had to put the RTB back in that tank and it took me about a minute because it didn't want to leave my hand and kept going for the lid as I tried to place it down. Obviously wasn't happy. I just wish I could have like fostered it and taken it home to warm it up and feed the poor thing. Well sorry for the rant but I'm just irritated and wish I could have done more.

The idiots who work the herp section of my local PetCo dread seeing me come into the store because they know hell's coming with me.

[the store manager adores me so I don't worry about getting "banned"]

Last time I went in, the BP tank had a whopping 23% humidity level and the shedding snakes looked like shredded snakes.

I went looking for the twit who was working that night but he seemed to have 'disappeared'.

As I was driving out of the lot, I saw him walking around the back of the store.

I have to find out where he hides while I'm there.