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moorear
at Fri Mar 12 19:36:23 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by moorear ]
The idiots that work in them. All of our local ones employ people who THINK they know what they are talking 'bout; only they are way off base.
If I were to believe what I have heard one girl tell me or other customers I would think that:
1)chinchillas are rabbits - they just look different.
2)Don't worry 'bout the upper respiratory problem in that kitten - it is normal for a cats to have goopy eyes.
3)African greys make great pets for children, they don't need much attention at all.
4)Your lizard shouldn't need a vet check-up, they rarely ever get sick.
And then yesterday, while picking up some feed, after she was kind enough to diagnose a respiratory problem and recomend NO treatment for another customers snake, I asked her 'bout the purebred fancy rats that she was selling (a friend actually wants to buy one from her - I have advised against it). She claims to have bred them for many years but didn't know the difference between a curly or a rex, didn't know what the genetics of the traits she was breeding were, didn't know that one of the traits she was breeding has a genetic predisoposition to health problems, and wasn't even really clear what traits her own rats had - but even after that discussion she still claimed that she knew exactly what she was doing.
Sorry this is a rant - but if a new pet owner get wrong information at the petstore, they may never get it all corrected before the animal up and dies on them. I know not everybody is this incompetent; but unfortunatly incompetency seems to be a requirement to work in the pet stores in my area.
Russ
Ps - I had a pet Peeve once - it was a rat my wife got me after we got married.
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RE: Pet Store Pet Peeve - moorear, Fri Mar 12 19:36:23 2004