my personal experiences with PETsMart

[SnakeBabe]

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

[bensnacks]

Hehe.. Did you really say the "before I puke on you" bit.??

[SnakeBabe]

yep!

[bensnacks]

BWaaahaaha ... onya Snakebabe!!!

[Ed_r]

ROFLMAO.
Nothing surprising about your experience though. There really needs to be some kind of laws that pet stores have to be certified somewhat intelligent, to be able to sell animals.

[savannah_babe]

omg, that is horrible. your right ed, just like anyother job requiring experience, this is one that should as well. ive had that happen, actually, i did that just last week. but the guy i spoke to wasnt all that bad..geesh... some people..lol

[toker]

LOL Right on!

Every pet store I have ever talked to has always been either Stupid or just didnt care. Perhaps this dude will sit up and take notice now.

*shrug*

One can only hope

[strangealienguy1]

SnakeBabe...Too funny and too sad...I feel like i am meeting that guy with every shop i go to

[Woapalanne]

Wow. I haven't ever even kept any sort of lizards, and *I* knew that was one long death sentence for the poor thing!! I'd report him to the manager.

[LdyDrgn]

What's real sad: The manager wouldn't care

[peruvianfanatic]

I have gone into places and I swear I could teach their so called reptile person a leason in reptiles.Not that I know everything but you got to know what you have and its needs.I also agree with ed they should be certified.

[Ravnos]

Thankfully the Petsmarts near me don't generally carry much for reptiles. Just a few geckos, some turtles and that is usually it. Petco is the one that sickens me. Last time I was in I called the employee over and pointed at the horned frog and asked:
"How much for the horned frog."
"They're thirty nine dollars."
"Really, I guess this one is really easy to care for?"
"Yes, yes they are."
"I would imagine so, seeing that it has been dead for a week."
Employee turns bright red and gets fidgety.
"We just got them in, must have been a bad bunch."
"Uh, no. I was here last week and he was just as stiff and hollow eyed as he is today. You do realize they need water?"
That was when I just walked away.

Rav

[Amiechan]

SnakeBabe, You go girl!
I once went to a pet store back home that "specialized" in reptiles.. I walked up to one tank labled "water snake" and there was some type of snake hanging out of the water bowl half decomposed. I mentioned to the owner it was dead (a common thing in this place). I stayed away for a week, and then had to come back to get crickets. I glanced in the tank.. the same dead decomposing snake was there. I told the owner AGAIN that there was a tank with a dead snake, and he just said "it just died this morning, I just havent had the chance to get it out"
Needless to say, he got chewed out, and I got kicked out by police.
The guy still has his pet shop, and specializes in venomous reptiles now.. I've got lots of stories about that forsaken place.. spitting cobras in aquariums with screen tops, etc. etc...

[LdyDrgn]

I want to take a trip to Las Vegas and meet her! I want to shake her hand for doing the good things she does.

Like Amy said: You go Girl!