I haven't ever seen conditions THAT terrible! God, that's horrible! Makes me sick to my stomach to think of a snake suffering that much.
But, just to add another pet store horror story (of a much smaller caliber), I'll just go ahead and post what I was gonna rant about in another thread here.
I went back to the petstore where I normally buy my feeders yesterday. As is a habit of mine, I stop to check out all of the herps that the guy has. So, I glance in the tank where there are 3 '11 baby normals, one being the absolutely beautifully colored baby I had looked at a little over a week ago and considered bringing home. Man, am I glad I DIDN'T! The baby I had adored had a huge dent in his eye and was laying limp in the back, twitching. I got the key from the owner and snatched him up to see if he was still alive and he was literally CRAWLING with MITES! They were EVERYWHERE! And his siblings were too. I immediately told the guy about it, and he said he had been treating them for mites for a week with some mite spray. But I saw them last week and didn't see any! So this is getting WAY out of hand, very quickly if he is in fact treating them. So I put the little guy in some water to soak, hoping to help with his dehydration and to get some of the mites off, and told the owner of the store very pointedly that he needed to get some PAM ASAP! And that he should be soaking them everyday, and should move them away from the rest of his healthy animals. I just really hope he does, and will probably never buy a snake from him after this.
Granted, they came like that from the breeder apparently, so it's not entirely his fault. But, he needs to being doing more for them IMO. I was so bothered by the sight. I had never seen mites in person prior to that. :/
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