Petco Rulzs i love them,i love petsmart too!................Just kidding i hate them both

here is a great link to show how bad petco and petsmart really is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkxyUJJOivY

I work at Petco and I am the one who handles the snakes at my store. We feed frozen almost exclusively at the store (as I do at home) the only time a captive bred baby needs to be fed live is if it won't take down a frozen. Every one of my 10 snakes currently in my care at the store eat every week with very little problem.

just thought i'd throw that out there, we're not all bad

Well, I personally think that PetCo and PetSmart have no idea what they are doing.

They are OBVIOUSLY not well trained in the areas of Reptiles etc. We went into a PetCo the other day and the poor leopard geckos were scrawny, their tails, mear nothingness. They all looked depressed really. They are definitely malnourished.  I also don't think that they are aware that they just cant feed them meal worms. They need a diet that is mixed up a bit.

There are a lot of petcos and petsmarts that are taking out their reptiles altogether. They are selling reptiles that NO ONE knows about and ones that are very hard to take proper care of. Also, the fact/care sheets are wrong.

I love local exotic stores. They're the best. :D

They just dont know what they are talking about

do it they had the same problem at the petsmart and pets co bymy house the reason for is they dont know jack shit about reptiles and only no stuff about dogs and cats. thay are alos prjudice agianst reptiles cause i brought my snake into one of the stores with me since your pet can come in with you and they told me he could not come in and i said why hes my pet and the bitch working there gave a freak out speech how people are afraid of snakes cause evidently shes was analy mindfucked as a kid to hat snakes so i say fuck petsmart and petco and stick to yo local exotic pet stores like i do cause they know what they r doing there

I am with you 100% on this one. I recently went into a Petsmart . I noticed a ball python with a pretty bad rectal infection. All the other ball pythons were under a log except for this one. It was very underfed as you could see the spine very clearly. I pointed it out to not ONE......but FOUR different employees. They didnt seem to care too much and referred me to their store vet (who of course....was nowhere to be found). They didnt even bother to look. Im sure this may differ with staff and location.......but this specific petsmart was garbage in my books. I left the place in awe. The next day as I drove by ..........I decided to stop by again. hmmmmmmm did they remove it maybe? Did they atleast take off the mushy birthlike poop dangling from his booty hole?  NEGATIVE!  The ball python was in the same exact spot as it was the day before. Needless to say.....I do not plan on going back.  Bad ju ju.

Thanks FunkyRes

I won't buy a Ball Python from them. I live near one of the two LLL reptile stores. And I can reach both of them no problem. I will probably buy a corn snake. But not before my cuz GIVES/SURPRISES me with a mexican black kingsnake.