thanks pet store! - Page 2

forkedtongue · 07-23-11, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by marvelfreak

Which means most of their snake most likely have mites and the don't quarantine properly.

Agreed. Im not sure if I just got lucky or if it was the Michigan weather but I never had mites on my snakes before the military, and after getting mites and reading into other diseases and such they can contract, Im done with petstores minus feeders when im in a bind, outside of that no thanks. From here on out Im sticking to people who specialize in a breed of snake and do it for a living, and even then the first thing that is going down when they come in the door is a nix treatment.

Grrrr, frustrating.

I dont expect someone to cover my bills, i guess thats what i get for not being thorough enough, I was just over come with "OMG CARPETS!" as they normally carry more of the Hots and the larger species of Boas and Pythons. Oh well, I still love my carpets to death and i dont regret getting them, I just feel bad that they were sitting in that display cage with mites for who knows how long.

The sad thing is, inside the cage were my 2 Carpets, a set of young IJ's and the GTP that died, when i went to the store last night to get some frozen feeders.....the little IJ's were gone too, and I dont think anyone bought them, i know they were force feeding them because they werent eating, so im guessing they are in snake heaven now too :/

stephanbakir · 07-23-11, 11:19 AM

Might be worth being extra careful with your carpet, allot more then mites could have killed those snakes.

marvelfreak · 07-23-11, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by forkedtongue

Agreed. Im not sure if I just got lucky or if it was the Michigan weather but I never had mites on my snakes before the military, and after getting mites and reading into other diseases and such they can contract, Im done with petstores minus feeders when im in a bind, outside of that no thanks. From here on out Im sticking to people who specialize in a breed of snake and do it for a living, and even then the first thing that is going down when they come in the door is a nix treatment.

Grrrr, frustrating.

I dont expect someone to cover my bills, i guess thats what i get for not being thorough enough, I was just over come with "OMG CARPETS!" as they normally carry more of the Hots and the larger species of Boas and Pythons. Oh well, I still love my carpets to death and i dont regret getting them, I just feel bad that they were sitting in that display cage with mites for who knows how long.

The sad thing is, inside the cage were my 2 Carpets, a set of young IJ's and the GTP that died, when i went to the store last night to get some frozen feeders.....the little IJ's were gone too, and I dont think anyone bought them, i know they were force feeding them because they werent eating, so im guessing they are in snake heaven now too :/

I would call animal control and report them. Me and a buddy did it to a pet store where all their snakes had mites. We pointed it out to them and they were like oh thanks we'll take care of it. Month later we stopped in and they still had them. So we turn them in. Plus the cages were nasty and dirty. Had no water in the bowls.

Now you go in cages always clean and you don't see mites climbing all over the snakes. Plus the owner got rid of the girl who was suppose to be taking care of the snakes. Turn out she was scared of them so never cleaned their cages.

forkedtongue · 07-23-11, 12:34 PM

Wow that's horrible! I did call them at first to ask aout nix stuff and they said just soak the snake in room temp water .......I was like........wtf?

Jenn_06 · 07-23-11, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by forkedtongue

Agreed. Im not sure if I just got lucky or if it was the Michigan weather but I never had mites on my snakes before the militar:/

Its good luck because i had a yellow rat snake that had mites but good thing i had him in QT so none of my owner snakes got mites.

kernel · 07-23-11, 03:55 PM

There's a specialty reptile store real close to me and they always have healthy animals. Now, with petsmart and petco, some of them have healthy animals and some don't. It just depend if they have someone that knows what they are doing or not. I only buy from petsmart or petco if they get in a rarer morph. I actually got a striped hypo lavender corn there. Anyway, for the most part, I only buy from breeders and that specialty reptile store.

marionsclan · 07-23-11, 04:25 PM

If/When a snake has mites isn't that something you see when you inspect the snake before buying it?

stephanbakir · 07-23-11, 04:28 PM

Should, if you give it a full inspection, if there are only 1-2 its sometimes hard to find em.

forkedtongue · 07-23-11, 06:06 PM

They weren't showing mites and idnt have any signs for a while after I got them, I handled them 2x before buying and never saw any on them or my hand, they weren't soaking in their bowls or anything, admittedly, with this being my fist mite infestaton, I might not hav caught it, but I would have noticedany insects on them if they werev large enough

stephanbakir · 07-23-11, 07:32 PM

Other things could have killed them. WORSE things.

forkedtongue · 07-23-11, 08:58 PM

Yeah after reading up on diseases I'm kinda worried, but at the same time, stupidity killed the gtp, as for the IJs they looked pretty poor shape when I saw them the first time and it was like almost a month later before they treated the gtp.

Idk, I mean someone could have bought the IJs but I don't know. This whole experience has left a sour taste in my mouth :\

marvelfreak · 07-24-11, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by forkedtongue

This whole experience has left a sour taste in my mouth :\

That the taste of stupid people running pet shops. It a taste that never goes away.