payledragon":67cb8 said:
We've had this happen at a few places. Also, we got a bad batch of crickets.. which makes me nervous to feed them to my babies. One day, I went to the store, got a few crickets, gave them to Skitz and Toe and 10 minutes later, I noticed some regurgitated crickets .. and both beardies looking like they were not feeling well. Scared me to death!! Thankfully, they did not get sick from them. Probablly, due to them throwing them back up. In the past, I had a snake die from a bad rat, so I'm very picky on the live prey I feed my babies. If they smell slightly bad.. they are bad. Learned that with the last batch of crickets.
I actually had a beardie almost die from live crickets at a pet store. I know since after eating them his poop smelled bad and I mean bad for about 4 months. Took him off the crickets and live feeders for a while. Now only give my beardies a few live feeders the rest is pellets and greens and fruit as well as the odd bit of canned bugs.
Also I have had some stories of pet stores. Such as this one where there was a ebardie missing most of his tail. I asked if they would sell me the beardie for half price. The lady tried to tell me that there tail grows back. I told her I knew for a fact that was not the case and she actually argued with me.
Or how about the time and this was a real costly thing they did to me by the way. Anyway they were selling what appeared to be a fabric cage. I asked them about it they told me it was fiberglass. I asked if sitting the light on it will burn it. They tell me it is deishgned for that. I asked if bugs could chew through it and they again assured me it would not. Well this was for a chamellion they have to eat live food. Well I feed my chamellion before going out the day after I bought it which I set it up that morning. Well I come home it smelled of burned plastic and noticed the light burned a hole in the cage and to top if off the crickets mostly all got out because they chewed through the mesh I was told they could not chew through.
I acontacted them about it and they would not refund my money and bassically said sucks to be you and that was it. So I ended up having to buy a new cage after I just bought that one and the cage cost me 180 bucks talk about a ripp off. They bassically lied to me about the product. Either they knew all the problems and did not tell me or did not know and just said they did without really knowin. Well later on that pet store stopped selling the type of cage I bought.
It is obvious to me I was not the only one ripped off buying that cage. Obviously other customers complained for them to remove it from there store. Not only that the owner when I spoke to him chuckled as if it was funny. Thankfully though the chamellion was unharmed. But the cage and the fake plants inside did not fair so well. Thankfully the chamellion seemed to know better then to go near the melting stuff. The light actually melted through the top and fell into the cage. The fake plants were mostly all melted and the wood branch it fell on was charred.
I certainly hope no one can top that bad pet store story. But any thing that stores do I say stores since not only pet stores do that kind of stuff. Though this is for living animals not a toaster or tv or something.
That pet store almost killed not just that animal but all my animals as I was lucky it did not burn my house down. Heck if I was in the house they very well could have also killed me with the stunt they pulled. Of course you can bet the pet store would not have given me a dime if that happened.