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ok the other day i went to petco to get some much needed supplies and i though since it was a nice day i might bring my male bearded dragon,napalm. so i walk in with him on my hand trying to keep people from seeing him(didnt want anyone to freak out) and i walk over to the reptile section. since nobody is around i put napalm back on my shoulder and search through the pile of products for the trex crested gecko diet(great stuff). then all of a sudden i hear behind me "is that a monitor". now i turn around thinking that its just some guy shopping at petco that thought my bearded dragon was a monitor lizard. so like i said, i turn around and see that its a PETCO EMPLOYEE that had asked me this. an employee working at a store that SELLS baby savanna monitors. i stare at the guy dumbfounded,then walk out of the store discusted with petco.
so in conclusion DONT GO TO PETCO

~james

Hi James. You wanted me to comment on this post. I guess you're an attention whore or something. Anyways...back to the pathetic Petco story. It was.....pathetic. hehe. Another stupid petco employee story: I take Hobbes to the local Petco all the time. The first time I took him, this employee asked me, "That's a female right?" and my mom (who thought Hobbes was a female Moms, you cant kill 'em, so you gotta live with 'em) said "yeah how could you tell?" and the guy goes "Oh, males don't have any color." and then he started mumbling about TRIANGLES. I don't know. He was kind of psycho. I think he got fired cuz I never saw him again. The End.

oh and I forgot to add...I was trying to find a male leopard gecko at petco last year and I was ya know, flipping them over and checking for additional parts, and there were like 30 little leos and it was taking real long to go through all of them. so i asked the employee guy for help and he said something along the lines of "Um..I don't know how to tell the difference, I think one of them has black dots and 3 things of something and this triangle" WHAT IS UP WITH PETCO AND TRIANGLES??? Eh.. I ended up taking a female home...turns out that they dont carry males. Other than the confused employees, the petco nearby isnt that bad. their animals are thriving, they have only like 3 iguanas and they tell you clearly that they reach 6 feet long and have to be fed veggies.

I hope I didn't mess up. About a week and a half ago, I bought my 7yr. old son a b/p from petco. They had them on sale there for 29.99. So I thought this was a good deal, and we held the snake and everything, and none of the ones in the cage seemed shy or anything. It looked fairly healthy (for what I know about snakes). They did tell me that they would not eat frozen mice, they would only eat live ones. Well we waited until friday to feed him, because they said they had already fed them the friday before. I put him in a styrofoam cooler to feed him, and put in the mouse, he gobbled it up in about 5 minutes. So I guess he might be okay. Maybe I got lucky. Hope so, because my warranty is up on Sunday.

I've heard plenty of PetCo horror stories, had one of my own, so your experience is nothing.

Face it, PetCo and most other Chain-Pet stores are full of idiots, There are rare occasions that someone works there with knowledge of reptiles, but it's rare.

When I went to buy my first reptile, a ball python. I didn't know about PetCo being bad. I went there and checked out their balls which looked healthy to me, just in the thin side. I bought one I liked and brought it home. I left her/him in it's cage and let it be. The next day after school I ran home to check on it, make sure it was okay and see how my little baby was doing. There it was, lying in the cage dead. Not even 24 hours after buying it.

It was evidently already sick and the stress of moving to a new place must have been the last drop before the water spilled over the edge, so to speak I will never give any PetCo my business again. The FUNNY thing about it is, before I even bought it I was talking the lady who worked the reptile section. She told me to feed it CRICKETS.I was like.. wtf? Crickets???!!!! That is a total IDIOT.

I got my money back and went to a privetly owned pet store and bought a ball python. That ball is still alive and with me now

PetCo is evil.
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Randilyn -;,-
Desolate Gray: Reptiles

Oh that sucks. The petco near me told me to feed ball pythons frozen/thawed mice and then rats. So not ALL petcos are bad.

We have soo many PETCOs down here, they have such great employees! All of them, so i dont get all these stories, lol. The animals are healthy and have great cages. The employees helped me when I got started and everything is correct because i researched what they said after. So now they love to see my beardies when I come in, great people.
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~Julie~

>>ok the other day i went to petco to get some much needed supplies and i though since it was a nice day i might bring my male bearded dragon,napalm. so i walk in with him on my hand trying to keep people from seeing him(didnt want anyone to freak out) and i walk over to the reptile section. since nobody is around i put napalm back on my shoulder and search through the pile of products for the trex crested gecko diet(great stuff). then all of a sudden i hear behind me "is that a monitor". now i turn around thinking that its just some guy shopping at petco that thought my bearded dragon was a monitor lizard. so like i said, i turn around and see that its a PETCO EMPLOYEE that had asked me this. an employee working at a store that SELLS baby savanna monitors. i stare at the guy dumbfounded,then walk out of the store discusted with petco.
>>so in conclusion DONT GO TO PETCO
>>
>>~james
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Be yourself! It doesn't matter what other people think!
~*Rachel*~

I usually would never buy an animal there... I once bought some house geckos and then one died that night, so i brought it back.

They have good supplies at reasonably good prices... they sort of have a monopoly(unless you have other reptile specialty stores in your area)... mainly since petsmart is much worse than petco.... some stores are better than others...

Sometimes my boas come with me to Petco.. Some people ask some good questions and some like to touch.. i figure this, people are getting educated and a boa gets some love... good times for all
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Starkey
Mystic Eye

I think petsmart is better...at least they do not carry iggies or large snakes. Their care seems better as well from all the diff. ones in diff. cities and states I have been too. I have had only the worst luck with Petcos and better luck (though still not great) with petsmart. Either/or, dont buy from chain stores. Everything is available online these days and what isnt can be bought from reptile stores. Andy
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Andy Maddox
Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

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