pet store rant... (mistreatment)

[aballpython]

so today i was in the local pet land and i noticed an employee (who looked quite timid and nervous about taking out the snake) was showing a potential customer a ball python they had... it was a baby, roughly a foot and a quarter...

she just got it out and it was naturally curled up. She physically tried to uncurl it and the snake tried to tag her... she jumped back and DROPPED the poor animal. about a 4+ foot drop...

ugh i hope the poor thing is okay, i really should have said something; i regret not saying anything.

i just dont understand how a pet store could have such terrible care for one of their animals. its completely ridiculous.

[pythontricker]

wait the employee dropped the snake?

[aballpython]

wait the employee dropped the snake?

yep...

[aballpython]

Kids help phone: 1-800-668-6868
Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-2433
Suicide Hotline #2: 1-800-273-8255
National (US) & International (Canada + more) hotline resources: http://suicidehotlines.com/

I don't know a safe way you could pass these on if you don't know the person. If you are a steady customer at the store, you will undoubetly see him again so just slipping him a paper with these numbers/URL might not be so simple.

Snakes, on the other hand, don't have any hotlines or URLs to seek help from abusive owners/pet store attendants. I'm quite concerned with how the snake was treated that was dropped. The pet store attendant actually tried to forcibly uncoil it, and then was surprised when it attempted to tag her?

Gah...



Don't beat yourself up for not saying anything at the time. Clearly you feel regret for not doing so... but there is always tomorrow. You can make a focused effort on confronting this person, nicely, in the future. Regret only what you can't change, work toward correcting the things you can.

Actually, maybe it was a blessing in disguise that you didn't say anything at the moment. This way, you have the ability to sit down and plan out the best way of educating this person without being put on the spot and being forced to speak off the top of your head. Go in with a game plan!

sounds like a plan.

yeah the employee started pulling the snake out from its coils to show the customer the size i presume.

too bad the snake didnt latch on to her, it maybe then could have saved itself the fall. although id hate to see what that lady would do having a snake latched on to her hand.

i wonder how resistant these animals are to falls? i never got a good look after the fall, but i highly doubt the pet store would be able to realize if the snake has a broken rib or something.

[pythontricker]

GET THAT GUY FIRED!

[littleindiangirl]

so today i was in the local pet land and i noticed an employee (who looked quite timid and nervous about taking out the snake) was showing a potential customer a ball python they had... it was a baby, roughly a foot and a quarter...

she just got it out and it was naturally curled up. She physically tried to uncurl it and the snake tried to tag her... she jumped back and DROPPED the poor animal. about a 4+ foot drop...

ugh i hope the poor thing is okay, i really should have said something; i regret not saying anything.

i just dont understand how a pet store could have such terrible care for one of their animals. its completely ridiculous.

It's terrible it happened, but it was an accident. Calling for someones head isn't the answer. You dont have any background on this person, how they feel about snakes, or if they had a choice or not in the matter of handling the snake. and I highly doubt they really meant to hurt the animal.

Take a deep breath, it was an accident.

[tigerlily]

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