Pet Store and Pet Ownership Horrors

[Surtur]

Ok, so I was going to post this story in the Retail thread, but it has more to do with this and it did not happen to me anyways.

On why some people should not have pets.
So, a long ass fucking time ago I worked in PetSmart, because why the fuck not. Plus. I think it was the only time the reptiles ever got proper care. Anyways, I was not there this particular day but our specialty department got a phone call from a very confused (read stupid) woman who wanted to know why her guinea pig seemed so unhappy. Sam, the girl in charge that day inquired as to what was wrong.

Apparently, it did not like living in a fish tank. And no, I am not saying she put the piggie in a tank with some bedding, no this bint filled the tank with water and put the goddamn pig in it. It was ok though, she gave it a fucking floaty. Sam was of course shocked and asked her why she did this and she said the guy at PetCo said she could. Of course, the guy meant that you can convert a tank into a rodent habitat, but I don't think he was anticipating this level of stupid. I of course am getting this image in my head of this poor little pig desperately treading water, trying to stay a live while this dumb bitch stares at him slack, jawed. Despite it being purchased from PetCo we told her to bring it in and gave her a refund.

This bitch is still out there y'all.

 

[The Knife's Husbando]

Ok, so I was going to post this story in the Retail thread, but it has more to do with this and it did not happen to me anyways.

On why some people should not have pets.
So, a long ass fucking time ago I worked in PetSmart, because why the fuck not. Plus. I think it was the only time the reptiles ever got proper care. Anyways, I was not there this particular day but our specialty department got a phone call from a very confused (read stupid) woman who wanted to know why her guinea pig seemed so unhappy. Sam, the girl in charge that day inquired as to what was wrong.

Apparently, it did not like living in a fish tank. And no, I am not saying she put the piggie in a tank with some bedding, no this bint filled the tank with water and put the goddamn pig in it. It was ok though, she gave it a fucking floaty. Sam was of course shocked and asked her why she did this and she said the guy at PetCo said she could. Of course, the guy meant that you can convert a tank into a rodent habitat, but I don't think he was anticipating this level of stupid. I of course am getting this image in my head of this poor little pig desperately treading water, trying to stay a live while this dumb bitch stares at him slack, jawed. Despite it being purchased from PetCo we told her to bring it in and gave her a refund.

This bitch is still out there y'all.

I honest to God had to read that three times to comprehend the stupid. We really, really, REALLY need a "Stab a bitch" rating.

 

[Surtur]

I honest to God had to read that three times to comprehend the stupid. We really, really, REALLY need a "Stab a bitch" rating.

I can't rate this Feels enough

 

[Bugaboo]

Ok, so I was going to post this story in the Retail thread, but it has more to do with this and it did not happen to me anyways.

On why some people should not have pets.
So, a long ass fucking time ago I worked in PetSmart, because why the fuck not. Plus. I think it was the only time the reptiles ever got proper care. Anyways, I was not there this particular day but our specialty department got a phone call from a very confused (read stupid) woman who wanted to know why her guinea pig seemed so unhappy. Sam, the girl in charge that day inquired as to what was wrong.

Apparently, it did not like living in a fish tank. And no, I am not saying she put the piggie in a tank with some bedding, no this bint filled the tank with water and put the goddamn pig in it. It was ok though, she gave it a fucking floaty. Sam was of course shocked and asked her why she did this and she said the guy at PetCo said she could. Of course, the guy meant that you can convert a tank into a rodent habitat, but I don't think he was anticipating this level of stupid. I of course am getting this image in my head of this poor little pig desperately treading water, trying to stay a live while this dumb bitch stares at him slack, jawed. Despite it being purchased from PetCo we told her to bring it in and gave her a refund.

This bitch is still out there y'all.

The flying fuck

 

[alex_theman]

Ok, so I was going to post this story in the Retail thread, but it has more to do with this and it did not happen to me anyways.

On why some people should not have pets.
So, a long ass fucking time ago I worked in PetSmart, because why the fuck not. Plus. I think it was the only time the reptiles ever got proper care. Anyways, I was not there this particular day but our specialty department got a phone call from a very confused (read stupid) woman who wanted to know why her guinea pig seemed so unhappy. Sam, the girl in charge that day inquired as to what was wrong.

Apparently, it did not like living in a fish tank. And no, I am not saying she put the piggie in a tank with some bedding, no this bint filled the tank with water and put the goddamn pig in it. It was ok though, she gave it a fucking floaty. Sam was of course shocked and asked her why she did this and she said the guy at PetCo said she could. Of course, the guy meant that you can convert a tank into a rodent habitat, but I don't think he was anticipating this level of stupid. I of course am getting this image in my head of this poor little pig desperately treading water, trying to stay a live while this dumb bitch stares at him slack, jawed. Despite it being purchased from PetCo we told her to bring it in and gave her a refund.

This bitch is still out there y'all.

I think we have reached a new low in pet-related stupidity.

 

[fishercat]

Ok, so I was going to post this story in the Retail thread, but it has more to do with this and it did not happen to me anyways.

On why some people should not have pets.
So, a long ass fucking time ago I worked in PetSmart, because why the fuck not. Plus. I think it was the only time the reptiles ever got proper care. Anyways, I was not there this particular day but our specialty department got a phone call from a very confused (read stupid) woman who wanted to know why her guinea pig seemed so unhappy. Sam, the girl in charge that day inquired as to what was wrong.

Apparently, it did not like living in a fish tank. And no, I am not saying she put the piggie in a tank with some bedding, no this bint filled the tank with water and put the goddamn pig in it. It was ok though, she gave it a fucking floaty. Sam was of course shocked and asked her why she did this and she said the guy at PetCo said she could. Of course, the guy meant that you can convert a tank into a rodent habitat, but I don't think he was anticipating this level of stupid. I of course am getting this image in my head of this poor little pig desperately treading water, trying to stay a live while this dumb bitch stares at him slack, jawed. Despite it being purchased from PetCo we told her to bring it in and gave her a refund.

This bitch is still out there y'all.

How is it even possible to be this stupid? How did someone this idiotic make it to adulthood?

 

[Bugaboo]

My piggies did not enjoy baths I can't imagine how a piggie floating in water with no escape would feel

 

[fishercat]

My piggies did not enjoy baths I can't imagine how a piggie floating in water with no escape would feel

I'm amazed that the poor thing lived.

...It did live, right?

 

[Surtur]

I'm amazed that the poor thing lived.

...It did live, right?

To my knowledge

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Ok, so I was going to post this story in the Retail thread, but it has more to do with this and it did not happen to me anyways.

On why some people should not have pets.
So, a long ass fucking time ago I worked in PetSmart, because why the fuck not. Plus. I think it was the only time the reptiles ever got proper care. Anyways, I was not there this particular day but our specialty department got a phone call from a very confused (read stupid) woman who wanted to know why her guinea pig seemed so unhappy. Sam, the girl in charge that day inquired as to what was wrong.

Apparently, it did not like living in a fish tank. And no, I am not saying she put the piggie in a tank with some bedding, no this bint filled the tank with water and put the goddamn pig in it. It was ok though, she gave it a fucking floaty. Sam was of course shocked and asked her why she did this and she said the guy at PetCo said she could. Of course, the guy meant that you can convert a tank into a rodent habitat, but I don't think he was anticipating this level of stupid. I of course am getting this image in my head of this poor little pig desperately treading water, trying to stay a live while this dumb bitch stares at him slack, jawed. Despite it being purchased from PetCo we told her to bring it in and gave her a refund.

This bitch is still out there y'all.

I hope this cunt is incapable of reproduction

 

[Surtur]

I hope this cunt is incapable of reproduction

As much as I agree with this, she probably popped out at least a half dozen kids.

 

[Overcast]

So what did she mean by floaty? Did she fit a raft into there? Or are there guinea pig sized inner tubes I'm not aware of?

 

[MysticMisty]

As much as I agree with this, she probably popped out at least a half dozen kids.

I suspect that's why she wanted the guinea pig in the first place. Especially if it was right after that awful guinea pigs as secret agents kids movie.

 

[alex_theman]

I suspect that's why she wanted the guinea pig in the first place. Especially if it was right after that awful guinea pigs as secret agents kids movie.

G-Force? Yeah, that was pretty bad.

 

[Surtur]

So what did she mean by floaty? Did she fit a raft into there? Or are there guinea pig sized inner tubes I'm not aware of?

I wish I had an answer.

 

[Ido]

A few years ago my mom was a dating this guy, his three children were in their mid-twenties to early-thirties and they were all living with him, they didn't pay rent, nor did they do anything for themselves. I only really met one of them, his daughter who I'll call Bitch. Now Bitch had a Bearded Dragon so she brought him to my house one time because I have one too. Bitch brought her's in a cricket container, it was pretty big, and it's legs were blue because she used calcium sand. My beardie attacked the poor thing when I brought my laptop out (he thinks it's his) and so she put him back in the catcher before leaving an hour or so later. There house was awful, it needed to be put on hoarders or something, my god, but I went to see the poor guy and he was in the basment, a place they barely went, his cage was filthy, the only thing he had to stimulate himself with was the TV and those bastards put it on a timer so they didn't have to go down there). It came out that the daughter wasn't feeding her beardie anything but those pellets you soak in water for about half a day (usually the crickets eat them, not the beardies) and she'd leave it in for 1-3 days at a time because she had school. Both my mom and I yelled at her and begged for her to give him to us, even if ours fought with him he'd be living a much better life than he was with her, but she fucking refused and got more animals she couldn't take care of. Her dad admitted to feeling bad, said he caught a grasshopper outside and gave it to him (that pissed me off because it could have be diseased) We lost contact after bitch slapped my mom in the face, in a restaurant, in front of someone I've known and went to school with all of my life. I doubt the poor thing is alive today, I desperately want to know whats become of the poor thing, I've thought of opening contact with bitch, if only to find out, but she fucking slapped my mom and I want nothing to do with her.

I bit the bullet and contacted her, she sent me pictures. Her beardie is still around and his feet are no longer blue, in one of the pics he was out and snuggled up to her. I'm glad, at the very least it's seems he's being handled more.

 

[Android raptor]

At a reptile event back in July, there was supposedly a guy who had a pygmy rattlesnake that was very stressed out, as in constantly striking the glass levels of stress. Instead of putting the snakes enclosure in a quieter place or at least putting a blanket over it so the snake could feel safer and calm down, he kept it out thinking the striking was great entertainment. Other than the fact that stress alone can make snakes very sick, striking the glass is something that could injure or even kill the snake. That's fairly basic reptile keeping knowledge, so there's a good chance he knew what to do and just chose to ignore what was best for the snake because apparently frightened animals are grade A entertainment.

 

[Bugaboo]

I saw something on my facebook feed

Spoiler: Potentially Upsetting

Someone gave their snapping turtle a mouse, the snapping turtle grabs the mouse and tears it in half, nothing too bad, right? No. Then the mouse who's intestines are hanging out starts frantically swimming to the surface and I couldn't keep watching after that

Don't feed live mice/rats to animals pls, kill them or get frozen ones, as well as being cruel to the mouse you also risk the mouse biting or injuring the animal and your animal potentially getting an infection which could be life threatening and will be expensive to fix
That dude is not on my friends list anymore needless to say

 

[Android raptor]

I saw something on my facebook feed

Spoiler: Potentially Upsetting

Someone gave their snapping turtle a mouse, the snapping turtle grabs the mouse and tears it in half, nothing too bad, right? No. Then the mouse who's intestines are hanging out starts frantically swimming to the surface and I couldn't keep watching after that

Don't feed live mice/rats to animals pls, kill them or get frozen ones, as well as being cruel to the mouse you also risk the mouse biting or injuring the animal and your animal potentially getting an infection which could be life threatening and will be expensive to fix
That dude is not on my friends list anymore needless to say

Sometimes it is necessary to live feed reptiles I.e. they're refusing to eat otherwise, but it sounds like that guy was just being a sick fuck. Especially since I don't think snappers even need to eat mice.

On a related note, apparently seeking out snappers and killing them for fun is a somewhat popular thing to do in some places

 

[Bugaboo]

Sometimes it is necessary to live feed reptiles I.e. they're refusing to eat otherwise, but it sounds like that guy was just being a sick fuck. Especially since I don't think snappers even need to eat mice.

On a related note, apparently seeking out snappers and killing them for fun is a somewhat popular thing to do in some places

Yeah, they typically eat fish and other turtles because there aren't too many mice swimming around in a pond