scary trip to pet store.....

[justinO]

I was in a **store** yesterday dropping off some pet rats and decided to take a look in the reptile department.....

1st: big, MEAN, female carpet, $750. Albino boa, $3000. Since when do pet stores carry higher end stuff (boa)??

2nd: employee guy there with juvi ball python around his arm.... i took a peek and dude said he wouldn't bite, i said "yes, i know, i have 14 of them."...... He went on to say that he just got him yesterday and decided to bring him into work and play with him. ooooookaaaay.... that poor bp probably won't eat for 6 months now from being so scared.

3rd: boy came in with his ball python, said it wouldn't eat. The thing was hours away from death, couldn't even hang on. Store guy put it down, it started biting itself and filping around and around. It was so sad, and they didn't put it out of it's misery, store guy just put it back in a little box. They said out of the 4 they got off the breeder that now 3 had come back dead or dying. I couldn't stand it anymore and i left.

Makes me wish there was a power like the OSPCA for cats and dogs, but for reptiles.... governing this these awful conditions that have been accepted as the norm in retail business for them.

Next time, I go in, drop off rats, and get the hell out.