Now I understand, snakes are SUPPOSED to have mites

[impermanentrage]

This is not some knuckle dragging troglydytes fault. In essence the blame falls primarily on the store. They should take fulll responsibility. I believe you'll find that this sort of thing was probably told to this lackey by management. In fact the only human with less intellectual prowess than a mentally handicapped lackey, is the boss of said lackey. Than of course you have CEO's. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]


Entropy,
Alex
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[SteveJor]

Well, I couldn't help myself and lost my temper there the other day. The blood python was not there and neither was the kid who I talked to the last time. This time I got the "reptile guy". Another moron. There was a kid and his father in the store looking at a baby albino burmese. The snake was in sad shape. Anyway, they asked how large it gets. The employee stated "albinos stay a lot smaller than regular snakes. It probably won't get bigger than 4 or 5 feet". I lost it. Told the guy he was a moron and should stick to selling cat food. Then I told the father of the kid that albinos lack pigments, not growth genes and to expect this snake to exceed 10 feet within 2 years. I recommended this site for info on husbandry and a ball python as their first snake.
I never did get the basking light (what I originally stopped in for) but boy did I cause some heads to turn. My wife says she won't go to another store with me again.
How hard is it for the workers to walk over to the display of books they sell and read a little bit about the animals they are selling? I don't think I'll be welcome there again but that's fine. I don't to give them any more business anyway.
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[XzyluM]

Sounds like you did the right thing man. I never go into petstores nowadays. Probably because I don't feel like getting bailed out of jail.
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OK..HAs anyone seen trinitywolf on the site lately at all ? Would be nice if someone moved this thread to the pet store forum....
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OK..HAs anyone seen trinitywolf on the site lately at all ? Would be nice if someone moved this thread to the pet store forum....
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[Ptorgeaux]

*cough*sarcasm*cough*

[Jem_Scout]

UNREAL!!! That guy would've been ripped a new orifice before he even finished his little "mite speech"....

[brownsfan222]

at my petstore they keep there snakes in good shape, but the poor iguanas have no space to move. At least the guy there knows about reptiles and owns many himself. I still think twice before buying any live animals there because the rodent water is always yellow, its a bunch of younger teens who dont care about the animals there just happy there getting paid.

	Iguana Iguana

[Adrya]

I can't believe there's so many people out there who are so STUPID LIKE THAT!! And who the heck (excuse me) knows what could have become of that poor blood python. It might have even died from all of those mites or they sold it to some little kid. Despite that guy giving his little mite speech I would have told him off, and I would have bought the poor snake just to save it. I've had to do that a lot of times when I go into some of the petstores around here, and I do end up bringing them back from the brink of death, most of the time without any vet help. I personally want to start working at one of the pet stores around here, just so I can take better care of how they keep their animals, especially their snakes and other reptiles, and I'd tell the other employees the proper needs of each of those species of animal in that store.

I bought a california king last summer from one of the stores and wondered why it was spazzing out so much in its cage a week after I brought it home. Then I took a few samples from its water dish and looked under a microscope only to find drowned snake mites. I spent about two weeks cleaning the cage and treating the snake. I have a really awesome book, Reptile Medicine and Surgery by Douglas R. Mader, and it's got just about everything you need to know in it, all these different procedures and what to do about all of these different illnesses of every different type of reptile, from lizards, snakes, turtles, tortoises, caimen, etc.. well I found how to get rid of mites really good. Put the snake in a seperate clean container, like one of those plastic "critter keepers", but before you do that, get some olive oil, and completely cover the snake with it. Just pour some in a small bowl(depending on how big your snake is) and scoop up a bunch of the oil with your fingers and rub it all over the snake, even the head, and put a good thick coating of it on them, too. It doesn't hurt them a bit, and just leave it on there. The oil smothers the mites on the snake and kills them, plus the oil actually conditions the snake's skin nicely, too. Then I thoroughly washed and scrubbed the cage with comet and rinsed well, and I soaked all of his cage furniture in boiling soapy water for 30 minutes. I only had to repeat this the next week, then after that, everything was perfectly fine and no problems since. When I get a new snake, I keep them in a large critter keeper for a little while and also coat them with olive oil just to be safe, then I put them in their enclosure.

But other than that.... I just can't believe how stupid people are. How much were they wanting for that poor snake? I personally don't like they way Petco or Petsmart keeps their reptiles, either. We're supposed to be getting a Petco here in town, soon. So I can only hope the people there won't be so stupid as far as keeping reptiles goes. But I still would have bought that blood python right on the spot and I'd definitely do something about the way they keep their animals in poor condition. That just totally pisses me off. Even that albino burmese, I probably would have bought it, too. But I know I can't save everything...

	Mites Mites, close relatives of fleas and ticks

[youngk]

yeh u should also feed yur snake pizza