What some people do for a few bucks...

[avd88]

I took some petstore pictures today, and this is what I got, and Ive seen worse in those same stores... believe me.
Besides all of the prices are wayyyyy too high for someone to be intrested in purchasing them.

A ball python, hope he`s not claustrophobic, it also had some like little bald spots on its head, as if there were no scales. (170 Dlls)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/99507c58.jpg

Last time they had an albino burmese in that same enclosure, but it was much bigger, litteraly no space to move, and the pricetag was bout 1000 dlls, Im pretty sure it died cause they have lowered the price on these new one to 700 dlls (Still very expensive.)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/73854415.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/11a110b1.jpg

Five balls, in the same enclosure, and there were more last time I saw them.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/54b327e4.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/fcb07ded.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/0f8dbb88.jpg

This iguana has also a very tiny enclosure, its trying to get some sunlight, unfortunately no uv light or sunrays.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/avd88/iguana.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/5ef9273c.jpg

It really makes me sad to see all of this and not being able to do something about it, you can actually look at the animal straight into its face and somehow you see how much its suffering.

[Adam_Wysocki]

A ball python, hope he`s not claustrophobic, it also had some like little bald spots on its head, as if there were no scales. (170 Dlls)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8/99507c58.jpg

You sure that one's a "he"?

-adam

[avd88]

nope, I should have posted it sryy it actually looks more like a female very wide. but I dont really know

[Diceman]

The general pet stores around here and pathetic aswell I wish I had the money and space to buy all the ones at this one pet store about 5mins away...

On several different occasions ive seen dead baby corns in the tanks, dead rats/mice floating in water dishes, pices of shed skin and poop everywhere in the tank, retained eyecaps

[Aric]

That looks alot like a pet shop we have here. They have around 12-15 baby balls in a 10 gallon tank with a very small waterdish, they had a big burm in a 20 gallon it had no room to go anywhere, just makes me mad when I see the shop treat the animals like that (I wont get into the other stuff they do)

[Diceman]

Yeah I dont see how someone who obviously doesnt care about animals even gets in a business like pet stores...

I tried to get a job last year at the pet shop by here but ya gotta be 16 hopefully this summer ill be able to get a job there and take care of the reptiles

Plus the information the workers there give you about snakes and lizards is just amazing..

Everytime I go in I check out the snakes while they get my rats and mice and this one time a kid (10-12 years old or so) and his mom were talkin to a guy that works there about the ball pythons and the common boas (or as they called them Exotic columbian red-tail boas) well...apparently the kid wanted both and the mom asked where they should live and the guy says they could share a 55gallon their whole life..luckily they dident buy anything then and I gave them the real info outside but it still amazed me

[PJ FF]

Wow, i'v noticed sum petstores around here are real s***y but the one I normaly go to is owned by a friend of mine and is real nice. I noticed petco's reptiles are in much better shape than alot of them.

[rabernet]

Heck, if the petstore by MY house looked like that, it would be a VAST improvement! They put 3 adult balls in a tank together, one is always submerged in the water bowl (perhaps because there are no hides?????), no heat that I can see.

The babies (I once counted 20 in the same 20 gallon tank, again - no hides, just some aspen and a water bowl, are almost dead with triangular shaped bodies, skin hanging off of them (I've never seen anything so tiny) and feces smeared on them.

And after the adult balls were gone, it was clear that they didn't clean the tank, just put an adult boa in there. VERY poor practices, and they try to tell ME how to care for Kashmire.

I've quit trying to talk to them, after all the owner has owned snakes for over 30 years, so he KNOWS what he's talking about and all the employees take his word as gospel.

When I finally get into breeding and have some extra males to sell, they will NOT be going to this pet store. I'll drive an hour away to another that's MUCH better.

[mlededee]

um, yeeah unfortunately that looks imensely better than the herp shop here. what i would give to have a shop with tanks and animals that looked that good. it's sad, i know.

[wolfy-hound]

Why don't you report them? To sell reptiles most states actually do have minimum size requirements on enclosures. Call the local animal welfare league or humane society, get the local reptile club to help maybe. Try to help.