Isn't it almost silly for these major chains not to try and win the approval of experts such as yourselves? I'm also currentely studying a lot of business and a customer such as yourself would be perfect. You all spend tons of money on your pets, know what you are doing which reduces returns, and can refer other herpers that you know too Petco. Thats really neither here or there though.

We consistently find that we don't sell what animal experts recommend and have to turn away customers all the time. The local pet store does sell these things, but they also use heat rocks on all of the reptiles instead of lights. They have a lot of lizards in very poor shape. The most I learn about this hobby the more I find that breeders and niche online stores are the people who know the most and carry the products to match.

Anyway, my point about the snake owner was that IF a snake owner was scared about the ammount of maintenence, and he fully understood the requirements, informing him/her about the iguanas trainability could be something to clinch the sale. Lots of these guys have snake rooms already and wouldn't be too hard to add another....

Wait, would't housing a snake and iguana, both adults, in the same room be a reason for stress?

We rehab so many of these animals it can be really depressing.
WE have found the easiest way to potty train an iguana is to give them a very large bucket of water. Number one they love to swim and most will naturally go to the bathroom in water.
All of ours have been trained to water with no problems.

Most of my snakes are in a different room than the iguana. The exception is my Ball pythons. The iguana will frequently climb up and sit looking into the tank where the pythons are located. As long as the cages are not butted right up next to each other they generally ignore each other.

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I keep my WD out of sight of all my snakes and my T as my Male WD can be aggressive and protective of what he considers his territory

I probably could of started a new thread for this but I think it fits our discussion pretty well.

Today a women came in and bought some crickets so I asked what they were for. It's a good way to start conversation about their animals. She has a Bearded Dragon and an Iguana but is packing because she must move for whatever reason and needs somebody to adopt them.

Tomorrow I get her Bearded Dragon and hopefully we'll find her 5 1/2 foot iguana a good home. We have sent out a call to all of our herp addicts for help. This women is very distressed by this whole thing and hates to give it up but we all have to understand when life comes at you fast. I didn't pry because thats rude but she did seem very sad at letting her pets go.

The reason she has the Iguana is a perfect example of what we are all talking about. Owner buys because it looks cool, Iguana gets Metabolic Bone Disease, he abandons them both, she finds and nurses them back to health. The Iguana has limited use of it's tail because of the damage but walks, eats fine. I'm glad I can help with the Bearded Dragon but the Iguana is 5 1/2 feet long and I can't fit a 4x6 cage in my little apartment.

Heres hoping we can find this guy a good home. I'm wary of Petco spies catching wind of this and getting in trouble but this Iguana is in CT and I could respond via PM about it if anybody could help out. I'm pretty sure we'll find a good home for it. She said it has excellent temperment just needs help sometimes because of it's tail.

it indeed is the best way to start a convo with customers. It also gives you the chance to give them needed info about their herp, i would always causally get into the care of herps and would then proceed to ask them what substrate they prefer,lighting and vits, stuff like that...and if I found something to be dangerous or wrong wih what they were doing id tell em nicely of course..it helped alot of people

I think the Walmart in town is wondering why they're selling so much shelf liner these days. I swear if one more of my associates recommends calci sand I'm going to make them eat it and see how they feel.