A Day at Petco (Funny stories ahead!)

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I'm brand new to the world of herp and ball pythons, but I was in Petco a few days ago and again today, and while peering into the ball python cages (two normal babies and an albino next door) I saw crickets. Crickets all over the cage, crawling over the balls, just chilling out. It didn't hit me until later (today I went back to confirm) that balls don't eat crickets, to my limited scope of knowledge.

I'm wondering why they would feed these babies crickets. They're not very big, but I know they're big enough to take f/t or live prey. I might need to stop going to Petco, because it's stressing me out.

I already knew I'd be getting my first ball from a breeder/show, but this just cements my wariness of pet stores. The funniest part of this was watching a cricket crawl over a bp's head and it just chilling, like the cricket wasn't even there.

(I could be totally out in left field, or just crazy. Maybe Petco didn't have any f/t mice. Idk. I know nothing, other than the fact that it's been bothering me)

Sounds like our common issue. The dividers become weak and when we dispense crickets into tanks that need them they weasel into EVERY TANK.