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Just wanted to pass this along. I know how hated Petco can be and we just got them in our area. Personally they are overpriced to what I usually pay for stuff.

Anyhow this weekend they refered 2 people to me. Last time I was in the store they sold both Columbian boas and Iguanas, however this weekend I got two prospective adoptive homes for a boa and an igunana. Also Every habitat change that I sent to the regional mananger on the care of the igunana was done. I know how much and how hard they work with dog and cat rescues. Maybe through that outlet they are learning more and begining to work with us scales too. Anyone else have this experience? Did I just luck out with a good regional manager? Is Petco turning a new leaf with regards to scales? What are other rescues experiencing across the country?
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Cindy
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I think it is the manager. Some of the stores will work with rescues. If you can work with them, that is a positive. The petstores that do not sell animals are easier to work with here.

I have problems with Petsmart. We sent our 501C3 paperwork in and they won't even acknowledge it. They just ignore the reptile and bird rescues. It is ashame since a few local mangers would like to have us.

Cindy
Iguana FIRST

If any reptile rescues could come to the Pet co in Troy, Michigan on Coolidge Hwy... My manager would let you set up a station there and we would help you get some adoptions going. she is really into rescuing animals, and thinks it would be great to have a reptile rescue come by every so often. We slready have some tables and chairs that we can provide, and we would help set everything up. I would even be willing to get that day off from work to help out.

Spread the word and if anyone is interested e-mail kittensnjunk@Hotmail.com

I'm willing to participate if anyone needs any help. I live 10 minutes away from troy and have herp experience. Zhenchok@yahoo.com

Cindy,

I think it is both a good manager and crew at the store, AND a new outlook by Petco. The Petno group and PETA have been putting a lot of pressure on Petco, and it seems that Petco is finally responding. However, we have to be careful that we do not get "used" toward Petco's goals and end up beign chewed up by the "machine". In other words, keep on them for proper husbandry, try to get them to stop selling the animals most often in need of rescueing, and get them to stop selling wild-caught animals, without taking credit for our work in their stores if we do start doing adoption days there.

Some Petco stores have sent people my way over the years, although it's usually people that want to get rid of animals.

Katrina

Posted by: PHFaust at Thu Nov 27 11:49:44 2003
Just wanted to pass this along. I know how hated Petco can be and we just got them in our area. Personally they are overpriced to what I usually pay for stuff.

Anyhow this weekend they refered 2 people to me. Last time I was in the store they sold both Columbian boas and Iguanas, however this weekend I got two prospective adoptive homes for a boa and an igunana. Also Every habitat change that I sent to the regional mananger on the care of the igunana was done. I know how much and how hard they work with dog and cat rescues. Maybe through that outlet they are learning more and begining to work with us scales too. Anyone else have this experience? Did I just luck out with a good regional manager? Is Petco turning a new leaf with regards to scales? What are other rescues experiencing across the country?
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Cindy
PHFaust

There's a new rehabber/rescuer guy in Texas whose charm and aggressiveness have made him well-known with many, many pet stores in the state. Apparentely he has recently gotten substantial help from Petco. They have not only implemented many of his husbandry changes and reffered many potential adopters to him but they recentely contributed hundrends of dollars worth of supplies and are talking about a cash contribution.
On the other hand i know of a few that i would still like to see closed (or burned). So i think it does depend upon the regional manager.

We just had a new store open here in Cheyenne, WY and I got to see it today--it's been open around a week.

I can't say that I have any major complaints. One baby water dragon looked a bit peaked, but it also looked like it hadn't been that way for very long--perhaps a problem that was present when it arrived, looked to be due to a very minor amount of face-rubbing started to become infected. I mentioned it, and they passed the word on about it--we shall see how they handle it.

The other herps had good weight and condition, and were behaving normally. Babies looked like they'd been established for at least a short time before arriving, and they carried actual pinhead crickets for the smaller lizards and frogs. They did carry baby iguanas. Once we have our local club better established, we can approach them on that issue.

I was fairly well impressed by the condition of the animals--long tailed grass lizards and green anoles all had intact tails, and decent weight. Very rare to see those species arrive in such good condition here, unfortunately. Cages were clean, all had temperature and humidity guages, heat lights, and what I assume was UVB lighting (flourescents).

They stocked Mice on Ice in 3 sizes, live mealworms, zophobas, and fruit flies--quite nice.

PetCo is really TRYING to do good...they don't always succeed at it, but I think we should support them when they do. They're paying more attention than any other pet store chain I can think of.