a bad petco experience

[Salamander Rising]

I bet they do hide. Its just a shame because my stores mamager who I made the guy call is the snake guy and I've never seen the snakes look that bad before not to mention 1 being dead and the rest frozen. I will definately be having. Talk with him about educating his staff on the keeping of herps. I mea the temp and humidity levels are right here in the cage. There is no excuse. But just seeing the dead boa and mites crawling on me really set me off. Well made me more sad than anything.

It turns out the "twit" is as miserable as I am about the situation.
He and the other two people who staff the herps have tried repeatedly to get the head store manager to get off her arse and "authorize" proper care of the animals but she simply does not care.


He "hides" because he feels terribly bad about the animals too and can't take the extra stress of me busting his...chops.

His hands, however, are tied by "corporate policy".

Her store manager job at PetCo is just a resume pad for bigger, better things.
That's what she does...she "store manages" and is working her way up to bigger, higher paying companies.

Supposedly she gave in to all the rants and had the pastels taken to a vet.

I have to call Monday to find out if she did.

If she didn't, I wouldn't be surprised if they were dead by now.

Such pretty little things, considering who was selling them....

[Salamander Rising]

Just went by my petco again the other day and saw all four bps in the same tank all in shed with stuck shed and 35% humidity. The manager wasn't there but I still gave them a piece of my mind about how they don't notice these things. Its usually such a great petco. I don't know what is going on with them lately. Makes me sad for these poor animals. If I see this again then all hell is ging to break loose. I hve no tolerance for neglecting animals.

They pay about $5 per normal BP that they sell for $80 [if it survives] therefore, it's not a big loss for them like it would be with a $5000 parrot.

It's all about fast turnover and quick profit.

[VEXER19]

Makes you wanna call the headquarters and file a complaint. I mean it is animal neglect. At what point is enough enough you know.

[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.

P.S....next time you go in, if you really want people to "listen", take one of these with you:



You'd be amazed how much more weight your words will carry....LOL

[even if The Boy isn't with me that day, they know he could be, the next]

[Salamander Rising]

Makes you wanna call the headquarters and file a complaint. I mean it is animal neglect. At what point is enough enough you know.

There's the rub.

People have called headquarters on her so much she's on speed dial.

They do nothing.

She nabbed a Conure off the floor and kept it in "quarantine" in the back room for a year "until the price went down" so she could buy it.

Somebody ratted her out.

Headquarters just told her to put it back out on the floor, where it was purchased by somebody else shortly after.

She's Teflon.

She'd have to actually murder several customers to get fired.