Heartbreaking......:(

[RColemanVT]

The local humane society was not interested which is ironic because tomorrow they're having a big animal adoption/education event at that very store.

I don't know where our 'board of agriculture' is, locally.

We used to have an Ag extension office in Hagerstown but it's been closed for years.
I went in last night to get stuff for the mouse mites and was shocked to see it's still alive.
I have no idea how it's managing to even hang on.

In my experiences Humane Societies couldn't care less about animals that don't bark or meow.

Also, as an employee at a chain pet store, I agree that they don't give you near enough time to feed the snakes. I have been lobbying hard at mine to give me a good hour or two to get them to eat

[Salamander Rising]

In my experiences Humane Societies couldn't care less about animals that don't bark or meow.

Also, as an employee at a chain pet store, I agree that they don't give you near enough time to feed the snakes. I have been lobbying hard at mine to give me a good hour or two to get them to eat

They never helped me with the mutilated and dying rats that showed up in a local small pet shop every Friday.
Said they weren't "domesticated animals".
The DNR said they weren't "wild animals".
They were in legal limbo.

So are snakes.

The guy who works the reptile area has 30 minutes to remove from tanks/feed/place back in tanks everything or he'll get fired for not 'being on the floor'.

He hates that and hates the way the animals are treated but he can't do anything about it.

[RColemanVT]

They never helped me with the mutilated and dying rats that showed up in a local small pet shop every Friday.
Said they weren't "domesticated animals".
The DNR said they weren't "wild animals".
They were in legal limbo.

So are snakes.

The guy who works the reptile area has 30 minutes to remove from tanks/feed/place back in tanks everything or he'll get fired for not 'being on the floor'.

He hates that and hates the way the animals are treated but he can't do anything about it.

That just sucks, our store manager is much more open to listening to suggestions than it seems that store is. That is what I hate about chain store, the managers make too much of a difference