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by **Samuel** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:31 pm

well ya that is what i meant. lol my mom would never let me even get a copperhead let alone a cobra! Well in 3 years 1 month and 1 day i can get one. lol Can you try to post some photos of some of your brood?

by **ceitictigeress** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:39 pm

I can, But youll have to wait until I get my camera out of storage... everything is packed up for the next 3months and Im using a friends computer until Mine is unpacked lol...its a bit of a mess here But ill post pics of everyone for you...

My goal is to open a sanctuary when My better half retires as a side project and a petstore that offers courses on proper husbandry, legislative laws regarding breed bans and good products including tanks at reasonable prices.....But while we are saving for it now, thats long way down the road.. itll be law specific, everything sold with parental consent and proof of Age....Interviews and a required interview to assure [roper knowledge... Most sell to anyone and dont care about the animals in question...I want to try and avid that

by **Samuel** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:44 pm

That sounds like a wonderful thing to do. I am trying to get a job at the local pet shop just so i can help out the reptiles. It is so sad the way they sell animals telling the people the wrong advice. I have had to correct them on more then one action!

by **ceitictigeress** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:46 pm

Superpetz in Columbia SC had a guy tending the reptiles....

a young girl wanted an iguana her mom said it was okay... neither knew anything about them, and neither did the guy.... I sat and explained to her... they had a lot of misconceptions about lizards..they did however get one. But the guy had no knowledge, the water had algea, the sav Monitors they were selling were underweight they were big enough to eat pinkies he was feeding them nothing but crickets and not even dusted... Just too many issues to list

by **Samuel** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:38 pm

Same sort of thing. Rats thrown in with the big snakes and i can stand there and say look the rat is chewing on you snake and the lady said "Oh they always do that!" Drives me nuts. I wish i could buy them all but it would only make more of a problem.

by **ceitictigeress** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:47 pm

*Notably groans*

Ugh....I feed mine live...but as you can tell Most of mine are Venomous... They are going to strike regardless...even then I monitor during feeding.. I remember someone on here Had a snake they rescued it had been chewed by a rat..tends to stress the snake and cause them to refuse eating.....

by **lizard gizzard** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:27 pm

I know how you fill Sam.It would be good if one of use could work there at least.But when I was there the other day thier was a new guy there.He seemed to know a little more about herps.

lizard gizzard.

by **Samuel** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:05 pm

Hopefully. Every time i went it was that girl who knows less then a cricket!

by **jesse** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:16 pm

what pet store do you mean?

by **Samuel** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:23 pm

Animal crackers. Right up near the ephrata Wall-mart. It is very sad. But it is the clousest place for Mark and me.

by **jesse** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:27 pm

OK I know the one you mean. They really throw live rats in and let them chew on the snakes? I know it's hard to learn EVERYTHING about reptiles just for a pet store job, but GEEZ!

by **Samuel** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:38 pm

Ya she has 3 BCI's in a big cage and often i see 1 or 2 jumbo rats just sitting on the snakes and the snakes have lost of wounds from were they were chewed. Also they have a huge Flordia king snake that they alwase just throw in a small rat. I think that snake will be dead before they sell him.

If i had the room i would buy him so i could breed him with my female.

by **lizard gizzard** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:15 pm

Sam I think the King snake looks pretty good.But your right about the boa's they are in poor condition.Still it would be relly cool to have that King.At least then he would have a good home for sure.

lizard gizzard.

by **jesse** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:17 pm

That whole store is just too small for all the stuff they try to do there. I mean there is only so much you can do with a little bit of room.

It's scary to think how many people get their reptile info from pet stores, especially when you consider how bad some of these stores really are themselves at keeping herps.

by **Samuel** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:26 pm

I was thinking about putting a stack of free care sheets for the common reptiles they sell there and asking them to give them to the costumer's. That way at least they would get the right info.

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