Bad advice

[Variety]

Asked my mum to grab some weaner rats while i was at work,
Recieved a phone call from her shortly after saying she had just left the shops with hopper mice. Apparantly the employee told her that it is wrong to feed your python anything bigger then its head and also that anything under 2 years of age should still be on mice.

Very very frustrating, after feeding 3 hoppers to my coastal she still dosnt seem satisfied lol

 

[Marzzy]

Petshops are the best at either selling you **** you don't need or telling you the complete opposite of what you should be doing. I woulda took em back and ask for an extra pack for fuel.

 

[matty1]

haha what a tool ,id take them back.....

 

[mje772003]

Sounds like the person selling them has no idea

 

[sharky]

That sucks, my mum would do the same though!!! Once a petshop tried to sell me 2 pack of velvet MICE for the price of velvet RATS. And the worst part was I asked for velvet rats. They wrap them before you get to look at them so now everytime I go in there I ask to see them first
But that's right, petshops would probably sell you a bag of fish for your carpets if they had one lying around....

 

[thomasssss]

easy fix , get in touch with a breeder , so much cheaper and just better all round , you might think you dont have a breeder near you but just do a little digging , i thought there wasnt any near me until i got in touch with wokka (rodent farm) and found out that one of his breeders was actually really close by

 

[FAY]

And they want petshops in NSW to sell reptiles...god help these poor animals...

 

[Venomous_RBB]

Couldnt agree more Fay... +1

 

[MyMitchie]

Not all petshops give bad advice. As someone who is the reptile expert at my workplace I kinda take offence to that. Please don't bundle us all into one, some of us do know what we are doing.

 

[mungus]

I think petshops are the way to go

 

[sharky]

There is one pet shop I go to every Saturday because there is one lady I always want to see. She gives the best advice on reptile and all animals. She knows what she is talking about and I have a lot of respect for that one shop in particular because everyone there is well trained and know their animals. I just don't like the people who work there for the money and not the passion so they make information on the spot to sell what ever they can convince you to. They are the ones I believe we are complaining about?

 

[Venomous_RBB]

Not all petshops give bad advice. As someone who is the reptile expert at my workplace I kinda take offence to that. Please don't bundle us all into one, some of us do know what we are doing.

I wish you were in one of the pet shops around here then, not one of the pet shops around here, gives any good advice on reptiles. One told me that I should feed my BHP XL Rats only, that quails and chicken would be bad for her.
Then she went on to ask "isn't a bhp venemous"....

Most of the pet shops give bad advice or dont know anything about reptiles so give no advice (which is alot better than the wrong advice).

 

[MyMitchie]

Such a shame VRBB!

 

[Norm]

I just don't like the people who work there for the money and not the passion

I know what you mean, i don't work for the money...its all about the passion for me!

 

[daveandem2011]

That sucks, my mum would do the same though!!! Once a petshop tried to sell me 2 pack of velvet MICE for the price of velvet RATS. And the worst part was I asked for velvet rats. They wrap them before you get to look at them so now everytime I go in there I ask to see them first

When I get mice from the pet shop, I select them myself

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I wish you were in one of the pet shops around here then, not one of the pet shops around here, gives any good advice on reptiles. One told me that I should feed my BHP XL Rats only, that quails and chicken would be bad for her.
Then she went on to ask "isn't a bhp venemous"....

Most of the pet shops give bad advice or dont know anything about reptiles so give no advice

i am on the Gold Coast and in Ormeau there is a shop called all things pools and pets, and there is a nice young fella and a young girl also I am guessing early 20s who both have some lovely snakes of their own and give great advice

 

[The_Geeza]

Asked my mum to grab some weaner rats while i was at work,
Recieved a phone call from her shortly after saying she had just left the shops with hopper mice. Apparantly the employee told her that it is wrong to feed your python anything bigger then its head and also that anything under 2 years of age should still be on mice.

Very very frustrating, after feeding 3 hoppers to my coastal she still dosnt seem satisfied lol

And i know the shop and ive had this conversation with u before......Pm me if u want me to help with Rodents as i do regular orders from very reliable people in the Smoke

...and for same price...im here to help onlt (i have to get for my guys so y not help others)

 

[KaotikJezta]

I am quite literally horrified by some of the information customers tell me they have been given. We had a lady come in today who was sold a 70 litre Blue Planet all in one fish tank for a turtle. Nowhere to put UV or a dock, absolutely tiny and no conditioners for the water. The best one was the other day a young girl from another petshop rang me asking if there was anything to lower the GH in the water as the ladies water was testing very high. I asked what she had added to the water etc and was told nothing at all. I assumed it was for fish and advised her to send the lady over as it all sounded really strange. It ended up being a turtle tank and the GH was perfect. It gives us all a bad name when people are to stupid or too lazy to give good advise, the worst thing is when they no better but would rather have the sale than tell someone something that could potentially put them off.

 

[Rob]

I know what you mean, i don't work for the money...its all about the passion for me!

LOL. Thanks Norm, I needed that. :lol:

 

[Bluetongue1]

Clearly the biggest issue will be proprietors taking on a licence to sell reptiles without having any staff members experienced in keeping or not au fait with each of the groups, let alone the specialist animals you get. They should, by law, have to include one of those soft cover “Care of” books by Darren Green and others. I think they retail for about $15. The animals might then have half a show of getting reasonably looked after.

Blue

 

[longqi]

In Queensland shop owners have to have done a reptile care course
That does NOT mean the staff will have done the course