Quote Originally Posted by simplechamp View Post
I totally agree. IMO pets are one of the worst, and unfortunately most common, impulse buys people make. They go into the pet store for a can of cat food, decide to check out the fauna (who doesn't right?) "just to see the cute little animals", and next thing they know they're walking out the door with a whole (inadequite/completely wrong) setup and a new pet, and a handful of (poor/false) husbandry
as a petco employee, you have no idea how often i get this. people try to buy 1 or even 2 hamsters and get the "cheapest stuff" and even try to get these small animals CARRIERS as their cages. luckily, im not allowed to sell them the animal if i see that kind of setup(even my management agree). i get people trying to buy reptiles without knowing how much it's gonna cost and what they're dealing with. they also try to buy the "cheap stuff" like 50 watt bulbs and 5.5 gallon terrarium or even the plastic kritter keepers which i definitely will NOT sell them the reptile even if they complain about me(which even management agrees with me). people try to buy 10-20 fish and put them in 1-5 gallon aquariums which MOST of us petco employees work there know thats not an appropriate setup. surprisingly i dont get that for the birds. i guess cuz they're overpriced. $140 for "handfed" cockatiels, $110 for yellow canaries, i think like $20 for finches, and our parakeets went up to $21.