Petsmart employees

[John]

Kurt, that's the scientific approach.

[JeffX]

That is the way everyone should go when asked about something they don't know. There really is nothing wrong admitting you don't know something. I worked with a kid who supposedly was going to be working at our local zoo who used to tell customers he could tell the sex of our Bearded Dragons before they even came close to maturity. I loved the guy that told me that if you feed Lionfish live food they'll never take frozen food like in the wild. He honestly said that.

[adawinters]

I once walked into a petstore just as they were sexing and separating juvenille hamsters that were just old enough to be sold... and I wound up taking over and sexing them, because they were getting it wrong more often than not. (Imagine being the 8 year old who gets a "boy" hamster for her birthday, only to wind up with a full litter to raise/rehome.)

[Chel]

Yesterday I went into my local Petsmart and I found a few things that totally disturbed me. For one, they had some sort fo toad, a pacman frog, and a chubby frog in the same enclosure. Not to mention, the enclosure was way too small for that many animals. Then. they have their FBTs in pretty much all aquatic enclosures with a turtle landing for them to sit on outside the water. I was horrified and actually considered purchasing all of them to save them from all of it.

[Kurt]

By purchasing them, you reward their them for their bad husbandry skills/policies.

[into]

By purchasing them, you reward their them for their bad husbandry skills/policies.

true. Though you have to consider that most of them will get bought up by children and uneducated people that see them as novelty $5 pets that are seen as disposible by many. ... like goldfish.

I've been to pet stores where a clerk was chasing frogs around to get one for a child requesting one. Recently, I overheard a kid ask his mom if he could get a frog and she told him "no, you keep killing em... maybe next time".

[Chel]

It breaks my heart that people think of frogs and toads as disposable. They are just as alive as any other pet and deserve the same amount of care as any other pet.

[Kurt]

Recently, I overheard a kid ask his mom if he could get a frog and she told him "no, you keep killing em... maybe next time".

My mom used to say that I kept on killing things all the time, still does occasionaly. That maybe have been true when I first started keeping fish and herps, but it hasn't been true in a long time. I had a moray eel that lasted for ten years, when every thing I read said that the captive life expectancy was only eight months. I lost it in the mid-nineties. I always have to throw these things back at her when she makes those kind of statements.