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my personal experiences with PETsMart
The following is one of my personal experiences with PETsMart.
I ask who their reptile person is. A guy walks up offering his services.
Maria: This Asian water monitor, is it a good pet?
Petsmart punk: Yes they are very friendly and you feed them crickets.
Maria: Hmmm interesting, how many crickets do they eat in say a week.
Petsmart punk: a dozen until their adults then probably two dozen a week.
Maria: so as a full grown adult they will eat 24 crickets a week?
Petsmart punk: maybe more and you will need a 30-gallon aquarium for it. And a hot rock and a heat light bulb. They need it very hot, there reptiles you know.
Maria: (still trying to smile) It says here on the sign under the tank it eats rodents too.
Petsmart punk: No, thats for the Savannah monitors that died. They use to be in the tank. They get much bigger.
Maria: (acting dumb) The thermometer in there says its 15% what does that mean?
Petsmart punk: That is a thermograph. It measures humidity. It is about 15% humidity in the tank.
Maria: (thermograph??? Oh calm down SnakeBabe don't bite the kid's head off he's just trying to help I say to myself) Oh, I would think that a WATER monitor would need a high humidity.
Petsmart punk: He gets all he needs soaking in his water bowl
Maria: (I am now sick looking at the water bowl full of feces and repti-bark that is to small for it to get half it's body into) Is that the bowl he could soak in?
Petsmart punk: Yes, I got to get somebody to clean it. These kids here are afraid of this lizard.
Maria: I see. If I may go back to the crickets, are you concerned that when he catches them he may get a mouth full of that bark along with the cricket?
Petsmart Punk: If he does it just goes through his system
Maria: But at his size I would imagine it could get stuck in his tiny intestines
Petsmart Punk: it get digested a bit first.
Maria: Listen, you seem like a nice guy but I just got to tell you that you have given me so much wrong information on this reptile that I want to encourage you to please read up on them. I have got to leave now before I puke on you
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