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xblackheart
at Wed Mar 29 13:02:21 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by xblackheart ]
I am having issues with petco's in my area. I live in one town, but am from another close by, that I go to college in still. I have visited the petco stores in each a lot recently. I agree that the people there just don't seem to know what they are doing. I tried talking to the manager at one when I noticed their leucistic rats were COVERED in mites and were soaking in their water dishes. I tried to explain what to do about mites and tell them that the other snakes in cages next to them probably had them as well(all the cages are connected in a display). They also had a corn that had unshed skin. It looked kinda like a wadded up peice of paper. It was all crinkly and dry. I talked to him (the manager)and he didn't seem to know anything. He thought I was saying it was the aspen causing the problem, when I was just telling him it sucks out the moisture and they need to mist or find some other way to keep in the moisture for humidity and shedding. He told me that had to use aspen by company policy. I told him that was not the problem, that I use aspen. He just wasn't getting it. The other petco had the smae problem with their corns not shedding. I kept telling different people (employees)about their corns that had the unshed skin for a while(at least a week). Finally, I convinced someone to soak the snake. But this store also had a skeleton of a corn in one of their cages. Not a decomposing body, a skeleton! How can you not notice the smell as it decomps? Also during these trips, they had just thrown pinkies on top of the aspen. The corns had not eaten them and they were all swollen and gooey looking. Another thing that must have stunk. I think the next time that I see these conditions, I am calling some kinda animal organization. Although I have been told most don't care about herps.
Sorry its so long, I tried to make it as short as possible.
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**********Misty**********
Stress is when you wake up screaming and then you realize that you haven't gone to sleep yet.
1.1.3 bearded dragons
0.1.0 water dragon
1.3.0 leopard geckos
12.20.0 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
2.3.0 king snakes
1.0.0 royal (Ball) pythons
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
0.1.0 rat snake
0.0.2 prairie ringneck snakes
0.1.0 chilean rose hair tarantula
1.1.0 emperor scorpions
1.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrots
0.1.0 German Shepherd hybrid dog
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RE: Sad story...need help!?!?!? - xblackheart, Wed Mar 29 13:02:21 2006