Petco horrors!

[Zenyn]

A few days ago I was in Petco and I could not believe how the animals were being cared for! They were keeping a chameleon in a glass terrarium with little ventilation. The ball python and red tail boa had no hide or any cover at all and were both in an tight ball in the middle of their enclosures. They were trying to feed the baby milk snake medium sized crickets. And the leopard geckos, tiny tiny hatchlings much smaller than they should be sold being kept on calcium sand with the closest thing to a hide a small 4 inch log like thing (not the classic one, some drift wood like thing) in one corner where about eight were literally in a pile and some looked dead! Please just don't support any business that seems to mistreat their animals.

[Ryel77]

If you want a true Petco horror story look what they did in Binghamton, NY last year when their store flooded. I live here and I can tell you they let animals die when measures could have been taken to save them. Im sure the story is on the net somewhere

[asid61]

Petco is bad with all their animals, IMO. I have gone to many reef/fish forums, and everywhere there are horror stories.
Buy your stuff online if you don't have a LPS.

[EvilLost]

welcome to 99.9999% of pet stores. A pet stores ONLY goal is to make money (this is what is it LEGALLY OBLIGATED to do as a corporation). If it is costing its shareholders money, then it is breaking the law...

Pet stores should not be allowed to sell animals; only breeders should be selling animals imho.