Regretfully, the petstores that take great care of there animals, are the exception, not the rule.

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i usually go to petland, and a few of the guys I talk to there are excellent when it comes to advice and care, and actually own several reptiles themselves. however, the other day we wandered into both petsmart and petco (they are neighbors in my city) and it was as bad as you all say. baby geckos as thin as holocaust survivors with almost no hides on calcisand, kingsnakes housed together...... it was pretty gross. petsmart seemed better than petco tho, at least in my area.

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0.0.1 - Jack, Ghost corn, never sexed, but its a He darnit
1.0.0 - Neo, Columbian Redtail Boa. Currently in time out for attitude problems!

If this is a question it refers to sexes
47 males, 1 female, 671 sex unknown.

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

lol, i figured it was something like that. thanks

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0.0.1 - Jack, Ghost corn, never sexed, but its a He darnit
1.0.0 - Neo, Columbian Redtail Boa. Currently in time out for attitude problems!

i used to go to petland, but the one closest to me closed down, and the other one that I know of is really dirty. they always have dead animals. but the one that closed down, then knew their stuff, and were mainly a herp and fish centered business. I miss that place...

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<3 Tessa

0.0.2 painted turtles (Mo and Squirt)
1.0.0 yellow bellied slider (Jebidiah)
0.1.0 Amelanistic corn snake (Rose)
1.0.0 Hog Island/Colombian Boa (Kah)
0.2.0 Colombian Boa (Jasmine) and her baby(no name yet)
1.0.0 Suriname Boa (Kayne)
0.2.0 Cats (Lilly and Reese)

the one by me does puppies mroe than anything else. however, they are heavy in herps and fish (arachs seem to creep into the herp territory though.....)

2 times now I have found mites on their snakes. however they snape to it once I point it out. and I truely believe it to be an aspect of a busy petstore that they dont notice a bp with mites (but to me, 1 bp sitting in a tree with 5 other hatchlings all sitting in the bowl means mites (and I was right)). really though, there is so much to take care of for these guys, i do have alittle pitty. for their own herps, they do everything. a store full is hard to care for, but they try.... those of them that actually know what they are doing

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0.0.1 - Jack, Ghost corn, never sexed, but its a He darnit
1.0.0 - Neo, Columbian Redtail Boa. Currently in time out for attitude problems!

One subject that I haven't yet heard discussed: We have all walked into pet stores and have seen sick, Malnourished animals. How many of those sickly and starved animals came direct from the breeder?

That's a good question. I myself can't answer it though.

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<3 Tessa

0.0.2 painted turtles (Mo and Squirt)
1.0.0 yellow bellied slider (Jebidiah)
0.1.0 Amelanistic corn snake (Rose)
1.0.0 Hog Island/Colombian Boa (Kah)
0.2.0 Colombian Boa (Jasmine) and her baby(no name yet)
1.0.0 Suriname Boa (Kayne)
0.2.0 Cats (Lilly and Reese)

Well, Most breeders worth there own salt, send animals that are eating already. But (at least at the petstore I work at) Occasionaly we will get reptiles in from the breeder that ar'nt doing as well, usualy only the Anoles and House Geckos though.

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shipping is not real easy on them either.

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