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Do you work at a pet store? Have you shopped at a pet store? Share stories, ask questions, offer opinions.
Applies to both large chain stores and family owned shops.
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I work at a pet store that sells animals as the animal care manager. I can't believe some of the people that come into my store.
>How many goldfish can I put in .5 gallons?
>Wait, guinea pigs need hay?
>I stole all these reptiles from Florida on my last trip lol why are they all dying? what's a UVB light?
>We need another bird we thought it would be fun to let it outside and it flew away lol
>I found this turtle outside and I want to keep it (illegal in my state) what do I need? What? That's too expensive. I'm going to keep it in a rubbermaid bin. (somehow shocked when it dies two weeks later)
>People buying pets as gifts. Have them surrendered to us months later because surprise surprise, nobody wants an unexpected pet
>"I want to return this gerbil. My kids picked it up by its tail and its tail came off."
That was a fun $278 vet bill.
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>>2165206
Some PetSmarts 'boycotted' the animal shipping company they used because they got fucked in the ass for animal cruelty. So if you see empty PetSmarts, it's because the store wasn't making enough money per small animal to handle the upcharges of shipping the small animals. I'm trying to get one near me to take in small animals from a shelter instead of having empty cages and not selling any small animal merch, but they are being huge Jews about it.
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>>2165206
That store looks really comfy
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>>2165246
The reason my store doesn't have many animals is because our vendor wasn't passing random inspections and, for once, our store gave like half a shit and refused to give them business if they couldn't even pull that off. We've switched vendors before because they were so fucked up that even corporate went "idk this seems iffy" and backed out. From how the animals need medical attention over time and often come in too young, I won't be surprised if we switch again.
The corporation itself has a stupidly selective process about where animals come from in the store. If they aren't from a properly licensed source (to avoid lawsuits), the store simply won't take them in. It'd be a vastly better solution, I agree, and most of the people there honestly probably do as well.
If you can't get them to fold there (and if they follow policy, you won't), try to coerce them to partner with the shelter agency instead and have sheltered animals up for adoption hosted in the store. That is how cat and dog adoptions work in my store and I am certain something could be arranged to please both parties in terms of finding excellent homes for shelter animals amongst those who were willing to buy from a chain pet store in the first place.
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>Go to a pet store
>First thing I smell is old as fuck piss and rotting vegetation
>A hunchback stands at the counter rubbing her hands gleefully
>A literal fucking hunchback
>See a cardboard sign pointing to a dimly lit dungeon with the word "animals" scribbled on it
>Reeks even more of piss and rotted vegetation the moment I step through the door
>Animals stacked from floor to ceiling in tiny cramped boxes
>Ten fucking monkies in a tiny cage with half a dead tree
>Aquariums basically overflowing with fish and dead shit
>Upwards of 20 rodents kept in tiny spaces barely suitable for 2
>Some of them are pregnant because males and females are kept together
>More fish are kept outside in giant industrial tubs
>The smell of old piss is overwhelming, I can feel my throat burning from all the fucking ammonia
>See a ~60 cm snake going from one edge of the terrarium, along the end, and along the length of the terrarium again
>Leave then and there
Quality. I was wondering if I should buy some leopard geckos to save them from that hell but I decided against it.
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>>2165262
Do you live in a third world country? The worst pet store I ever saw was an outdoor one when I visited mexico. There were cages upon cages filled with baby rabbits, guinea pigs, and various birds. A lot of the birds were even obviously wild caught since they aren't domesticated species. Feels bad knowing that most of those animals were going to die a painful death, some even had diseases.
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>not buying your dogs tack from a specialist boutique revolving around your dogs type.
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>>2165423
Sounds like he is chinese to me.
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>>2165423
Nope, western europe. I hope reporting that store is going to get it shut down.
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>>2165206
I worked at one in a mall years ago. I cleaned cages and occasionally discouraged people from buying critters that they could not handle. I wasn't a salesperson so I had no real say in puppy sales or any sales really.
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>>2165253
I'm this faggot. While I was going to sleep, I remembered some shit I can share.
So, a couple of weeks ago, the Pet Care manager was (finally) being tasked to open somewhat regularly (he’s a lazy sack of shit and watching him be forced into even a modicum of work is extremely satisfying, even though he completely fucks it up every time). I was working the 4am shift, helping the Presentation Manager and stockers with tags (I can’t remember the new bullshit titles so the old ones are gonna do).
Around 7:30 he toddles his pasty ass over to me. “Anon, I’d like you to come look at something.”
Fucking what do you want I am Goddamn busy.
He directs me to the chinchilla habitat and there, in their upturned shitty plastic hide, is what I can only describe as slices of uncooked meat. “What the fuck?”
As things turn out, we’d just put one of the chins back on the floor from our ISO room due to ringworm (animals have been coming in from our vendor then getting sick since the beginning of time; recently, it’s been ringworm within two weeks, which is the time it can take to manifest) and that month-and-a-half-long or so treatment. She’d been with us 110 days at that point, gestation period is 112. So, apparently, our vendor was keeping her close enough to a male for her to develop and carry a placenta, but she was never actually impregnated because there was no fetus. (No, she and her cage-mate did not eat it. We would have seen a change in their waste, if anything, though the idea was brought up.) So that was a thing.
She ended up having to go to the specialist exotics vet. across the street where they induced labour through medication. She was in pain a couple of days because of it, but it’s better than necrotic tissue in her fun bits.
So that’s one story.
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>>2165779
Still me.
So, same boss is opening again. Bear in mind, he opened and the chinchilla had that false pregnancy placenta delivery, I opened three days, then here he is opening again.
So I come in and things are hella behind because he’s fucking incompetent. Today’s excuse was, “So, one of the guineas delivered two stillbirths overnight.” At this point I’m caught somewhere between wanting to just go burn down the vendor and laughing because holy fucking shit, really?
We’d only had this cavy for about half her gestation period, and while she was on the sales floor her body decided “nope, not these,” and so it was. I didn’t actually get to see them but he told me they were starting to develop limbs and their feet has creases where toes would be, but nothing really beyond that, so I’m certain they died right away if they were alive to begin with.
Now, these two occurrences aren’t our store’s first pregnancies (we’re a female only store, in terms of our mammals). One of my coworkers has worked there over twenty years (fucking Hell how I want to die and I’ve barely passed two) and has recounted a handful, but impressively not many. I think before I worked there, she’d seen 2-3 or something like that. Far fewer than I expected from a corporate chain pet store.
(Cont. kind of, 1/2.)
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>>2165804
(2/2)
Flash back to me about a year ago. I’m closing. I medicate all the animals in ISO who are on medication, fill out the charts of their progress, top off food and water, be sure they’re only living in a morally acceptable amount of squalor, and aside from the floor and every other Goddamn task heaped onto us, we’re out by 9:30. So I come in the next morning at either six or seven (can’t remember) to open because fuck me and immediately start ISO for medication time consistency.
I open a tote with a guinea being treated by some blanket medication (probably Trimethoprim and Sulfamethoxazole, our in-store vet prescribes it a shitton) for symptoms of early URI and… There… Are two guinea pigs in here. I’d just looked at her the evening prior and she looked fucking normal. I’ve seen pregnant guineas in pictures, they look like coconuts. She had pudge, but the pudge you expect of an 8 – 12 week old animal who is growing and eating like a monster. Not like incoming momma pig.
For a second, I didn’t understand, because the baby was literally so perfect I thought somehow we’d just gotten a really tiny one in (she was actually pretty big, as far as pictures I’ve come to see, for a newborn) and someone was elaborately trolling me in a completely fucking retarded and unsafe way.
Then I understood.
She’d actually cleaned every trace of tissue and bodily fluid. Literally, I couldn’t find a drop of blood or scrap of tissue in the tote. She did an amazing job. The baby was totally pristine. At a glance, it just looked like a miniature version of an adult. I still can’t get over what a trip it was.
So tl;dr we kept them in ISO together until the baby was weaned then put them both back out. I wanted them to go home together but I’m sure they didn’t because fuck me. She was a really great momma pig, especially for being a baby herself.
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>>2165239
>>"I want to return this gerbil. My kids picked it up by its tail and its tail came off."
>That was a fun $278 vet bill.
Well that's your in fault, really, for not googling it. Gerbils get the skin tore off their tails all the time, then the structure underneath rots away. It gets stuck in the gaps of plustic tubes, in moving wheel parts, fighting, all sorts of junk. All you do is dab some hydrogen peroxide and neosporin on it and call it a day.
I always have 2 gerbils. For 2 decades, I've always had a pair around (different pairs, obviously). I've had to lost their tails without knowing how or why.
Pic related. After the skin comes off, but before the structure underneath rots and falls off on its own. That's Tina. She is 4 years old now. Lost her tail 3 years ago. Doing just fine.
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>>2165246
individual PetSmart stores must follow corporate policy, and that is definitely against it.
I worked at one and this basically sums it up: >>2165239
most of my coworkers (at least those who worked on the floor) were knowledgeable enough to give customers basic instruction in the care of their pet, and if they couldn't they could direct them to someone who worked in the petcare department. i was very lucky that the people in my store gave a fuck.
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>>2165206
>Do you work at a pet store?
Yes.
Have you shopped at a pet store?
Yes.
I've sort of become the quote unquote reptile guy for our store, so I tend to that particular section of the store frequently while in between customers. There's always something that goes fucky at some point though, and since I try and treat the animals in my care like my own pets I sometimes find myself bumping heads with my managers about how things should be dealt with. For example, we've recently begun selling T slings which, while nice to see, is a terrible fucking idea because so few people know or care about tiny ass spiderlings. These things came in far too small to take our small crickets, and since we wouldn't see an order of fruitflies or pinheads for at least another two weeks, I took it upon myself to buy a large batch from a reptile show I went to that weekend. I don't particularly mind having spent money to keep the slings alive, but now we're facing a similar issue where more tiny slings were ordered and there's no pinheads or fruit flies. There's not another show until august, so for the moment i've just been dismembering the small crickets for them, which seems to be working out alright, but fuck me, if we're supposed to make this a regular thing then we need to either make sure we have the proper shit ordered or ask the other stores if they have anything they can spare. There's also the time were a batch of snakes refused to eat anything until I brought some soft fur rats and rat pups from my personal stock to feed them because we can't order either and got fussed at when I started telling customers how they'd have to order frozen food online, and the incident last week which involved me coming in to find that a fresh order of snakes came in with mites and I went scorched earth on the tanks. That alone wasn't the issue, it was the fact that I also told customers why the reptiles were not in their enclosures, which earned me yet more fussing.
>MFW being fussed at
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>>2165843
>Putting Hydrogen Peroxide on wounds
>ISHYGDDT
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>>2165930
>ISHYGDDT
H2O2 is fine for superficial pet wounds. Gaping wounds, not so much. But just scratches and abrasions? No problem.
For a gerbil, the entire tail structure will die and rot off within a week. Your only job is to prevent infection from spreading. H202 is ideal for this task since it's all going to die anyway.
People who make blanket statements like "never use H202 on pets" are not giving complete information. It's akin to "don't drink and drive." That's fine advice. But realistically, you can drive after having a bear just fine. They just dumb down the message because people are stupid.
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>>2165964
>you can drive after having a bear just fine
>a bear
Fuck, why did I laugh
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>>2165964
studies continue to accumulate indicating that hydrogen peroxide is not only ineffective when it comes to aiding overall wound healing stages, but can also slow down the entire process. The bubbling on the wound surface common when hydrogen peroxide is applied is believed by many to be caused by the solution attacking bacteria within the lesion, when in fact it’s also damaging your own cells {or in this case, your pet's} in the process. Simply using a safer solution, such as saline, can provide moisture and help cleanse an injury without risk of cell damage.
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When I was a kid I kept 4 goldfish in a 5 gallon and they lived for 8 years.
Bless em
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>>2165986
I think the point of what he is saying is that it causing cell damage doesn't matter because it's going to fall off anyway.
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>>2165989
Maximum lifespan for goldfish kept in an environment which stunts their growth (and Carassius auratus ought to be reaching at least eight inches if it is the smallest possible breed, up to about 28 if it's a "feeder comet") is no older than ten.
Life span for an individual given sufficient room to reach maximum size is easily thirty. Given that koi (which can interbreed with goldfish to produce sterile "mule" offspring) currently hold the second-highest world record for lifespan among vertebrates, I'm given to thinking they could easily best that, as well.
When goldfish are stunted—E.G. they are kept in an environment which is too small and, thus, too stressful (generally due to ammonia and nitrites specifically rather than the physical size, but not always)—their external body parts will slow in growth or stop altogether. However, their organs continue to grow at relatively the same rate. Ultimately, all goldfish kept in a small environment, if not poisoned by their own waste before this point, will die due to one or more of their organs rupturing from lack of space.
So, good job keeping the water clean enough for them to survive. Sorry to tell you this, but you could have done better.
We're still learning. I'm sure you didn't know. Most people now still don't. It's endlessly frustrating.
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>>2165986
White blood cells contain peroxide in organelles called peroxsomes. Pathogenic bacteria make an enzyme called peroxase to neutralize peroxide at low concentrations. 3% peroxide, the stuff at Walgreens, is too strong for the peroxase and the interaction is what causes the bubbling.
Any tissue damage is very minor, and is much, MUCH better than getting a staph infection.
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>>2165843
>advocating backyard vet services instead of an actual vet, which they brought it to
>my sides
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>>2166228
Not ever minor pet injury requires emergency health services. You should have basic knowledge of how to care for your pet without running, screaming to a vet for every little thing like a kid falling off his bike.
If you can't handle basic care of common ailments, like cuts and scrapes, bad sheds, tails degloving, spots on fish, knotted/matted fur, diarrhea, dry skin, dirty ears, dispensing proper made-for-human pain medication, etc etc, you are honestly inadequately educated and should learn a bit more about what you're caring for. Waste of time and money to rely on someone else all the time, not to mention they won't always be there.
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>>2166106
>28 inch comet goldfish
>"this one species lives really long, so a different species probably lives just as long, too!"
Yeah, sure.
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>>2166238
It was a pet store, numbnuts. It was covered by insurance.
>muh superior home remedies
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>>2165253
Our district manager has actually asked our store manager to find a small animal rescue group to work with like the cats and dogs.
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>>2166299
>any medical care done outside of hospital =
"home remedy"
We're not talking about boiling honey, mixing it with vanilla extract, absorbing it into charcoal, dusting it with cocaine, melting a candle over it, then shoving it up your dogs ass to cure its lack of appetite.
It's medical care. It's not heard. Learn it, or be like every other useless millennial that expects someone else to always run to their rescue. It's not hard.
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>>2165806
That's the great thing about Guinea pigs. I had some and when one had babies I couldn't believe how developed they were! It's like she popped out mini Guinea pigs
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>>2166303
What's it like living life as a try-hard insufferable know-it-all in the face of every trivial non-issue that comes your way? It sounds tiring.
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>>2166558
Knowing basic first aid now makes you an "insufferable know-it-all." The sad part is that someone who knows basic first aid will probably save your life at some point, having no idea what you think of them.
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>>2166602
>saves someone using basic first aid
>"Well, it's your own fault, really. You could have googled blah blah blah"
>"Man, you're kind of a dick."
>"Well first of all how dare you."
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>>2166602
someone here told you to take your pet to the vet, didn't they anon?
did you get triggered?
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>>2166298
It's the same species, different breed. Carassius auratus. There are two words because they mean different things. Yes, different breeds have different average lifespans, but that's the minimum on even the weakest breeds I've been able to find, unless you've found otherwise. Show me if you have.
Orandas, fantails, etc, they were all bred from the "feeder comet" version of Carassius auratus . They have divergent lifespans, similar to breeds of dog, but still the minimum average for the species is thirty. They can live longer.
I literally owned a 28 inch female comet goldfish. Naturally I don't have pics because I'm a faggot so it didn't happen. She was a fucking monster anyway. I'm not surprised about the doubt because I also doubted her. She was way beyond my expectations--it's why I gave a size range, because clearly they can get that big. It's not like I said they'll all grow to that size, simply that they can.
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>>2166301
Hell yeah! I hope they do it. And if they do I hope they post about it on FETCH/wherever so other stores start getting into that shit too!
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>>2166794
Yep!
the only problem is, there aren't any small animal rescues around here. Just wildlife rescues which obviously don't get adopted, but released.
Pic related: baby bun someone brought in. They said their dog brought it in the yard so the didn't know where the nest is. Local wildlife rescue took it in. I hope it made it as I understand survival rate of rescued wild buns aren't very high :(
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>>2166792
>all of this non evidence
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>>2166862
Those are koi. Koi and goldfish are two separate species. Two separate species who are capable of interbreeding to produce sterile offspring, like horses and donkeys can produce mules.
I've always been astounded to see that breeds of goldfish have not formally been subspeciated, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out they actually have been, but up until this point I have never seen nor heard of that. Taxonomy is constantly being bickered over--it's really just an attempt to classify a complex assortment of genetically related life forms into separate categories that is then oversimplified so we can grasp what the fuck might possibly be going on. Clearly, there's more at play than you or I can possibly know at this time, and I won't presume to know better.
But, really, "goldfish" are Carassius auratus. So far, that's considered standard information. Carassius auratus has multiple breeds including the more ancestral "torpedo" shaped breeds, and the very fat "fancy" breeds. The fancy breeds tend to have a shorter lifespan due to physical complications brought about by selective breeding, but all breeds have an average minimum lifespan of thirty years.
It's funny that you'd bring up carp, since they currently hold the second-highest world record for lifespan among vertebrates. Google "Hanako." The way he attained the record is quite dubious, but the confirmed chain of ownership (assuming no one's a lying cunt) is at least enough to put him up there in years at the time of his death.
Like, really dude, I don't know what to tell you, man.
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>itt circlejerking
>itt no reading comprehension
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>>2165246
I was wondering why mine was completely empty a few months ago, I thought it was just an off season or something and they were waiting to restock in the summer.
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I work at a mini zoo kind of thing, which has a store as well. One time, Nepalese monks came into the zoo, orange robes and all. Really cool guys.
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>>2165239
Fuck I live this everyday. No one but petshop associates understand.
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>>2165884
The amount of stupid people who are attracted to pet stores is astounding. It's brutal.
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>>2165884
This.
I buy the small animals treats to help tame them. My boss is cool with that though. But god damned I better not mention an animal getting loose or recovering from illness recently.
I mean wtf? I don't mind being honest with people about the history of they animals they are interested in (While at our store of course. DC tells us nothing).
I take care of the animals like my pets too. Finally got my boss to approve a vet visit for 2 mice who had been in ISO for two months. Waiting for an update on that.
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Reference for people at work who don't know much about African cichlids, because the in store literature is woefully inadequate.
How'd I do?
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>>2169125
Bless you. Can't speak to its accuracy but sure did save that shit.
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>>2166119
Ah, just wanted to clear a few things up here:
1) Not all pathogenic bacteria produce the enzyme. Anarobes in particular tend not to.
2) The enzyme is actually catalase in bacteria. Peroxidase is in plants, but does play a role in defending against bacteria!
3) 3% peroxide isn't too strong. 3% is actually the concentration used in routine microbiological screening to determine if a bacteria is catalase positive or negative. (FOr anarobes, 15% concentration is used)
4) Bubbling is actually what happens when a bacteria is able to break down the peroxide. The bubbling is caused by the catalase enzyme metabolising the breakdown of H2O2 into water and oxygen. If you put peroxide on a wound and it starts bubbling, then whatever bacteria is on that skin is quite happily breaking down the peroxide and not being affected by it in the slightest.
If the solution ISN'T bubbling, THEN the bacteria are dying.
4)Staphylococcus are all catalase positive, meaning they can break down peroxide. So idk about the effectiveness of peroxide on staph.
But I have no idea re: peroxide and tissue damage or the effectiveness of using it to clean wounds, so I'm going to keep out of that. It could very well work on anaerobic organisms like Clostridium, but idk.
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>>2169125
Saved.
Thanks anon. I hate when I can't answer a question for a customer about cichlids. Have anything similar for South American?
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>worked at a fleamarket pet store for 5 years
>worked two days a week, saturday and sunday
>walked out with 250$+ a weekend by selling big bird cages and getting a commission, or selling 800-1000 dollar birds like Grays, etc
>Mostly sold red-ear sliders, ball pythons, keets/tiels/finches/canaries but had bigger birds that I would walk around the store with on my shoulder because all our babies were friendly as hell, iguanas too
>we had slight unusual stuff like tarantulas and scorpions every now and then too, lizards and stuff
>mexicans and puerto ricans who could not speak a lick of english always come in because we're in a certain penis shaped state
>little kids run around the store trying to get into the tanks, yell at them but they never understand
>one kid comes in point to our rack of bird seed bags but can't speak english
>I attempt to figure out what size bird he has by using spanish I've heard on, I shit you not, dora the explorer
>the ones that can speak english constantly come in and appease their pack of children with a 20 dollar parakeet/cage/food setup
>almost always came back trying to get a refund because their kids ended up killing it, claiming the bird was "sick" beforehand
>get all our birds from well known breeders that even do shows, so they can fuck off
>ball pythons stop selling well for a few months
>take 2 out at a time and let them wrap around my arms and chill
>walk around the fleamarket with snakes on me
>shitloads of people asking "where'd you get those" and business is back up
>stores main doors were two pulldown metal things that you'd see on a shed or something
>little bastards open a finch cage unnoticed
>two or three finches go flying out
>rush to the doors and pull them down so they dont get lost in the fleamarket
>trying to catch them with a butterfly net
>THE BEEPING, OH THE HORRID BEEPING
>catch 1 or 2, another smacks directly into a wall and dies
>immensely pissed, beepbirds are K Y E
>parents and kids nowhere to be seen
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>>2169200
No problem. It's a rough amalgamation of info from a few different sites for each species.
>>2170628
I didn't make one for SA/CA cichlids because I already know most of their care by heart, same for why Kribensis aren't on the list.
I can maybe make one later, but right now is finals week for summer classes so I have other things that I *should* be doing.
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>>2165806
That's a cute story and picture.
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local pet shop probably a chain I dunno really. They got a area for self-dog washing. They could make it a little more friendly looking instead of it looking like a gas chamber.
Nor do they keep it that clean.
The machines with this bullshit token system is a fucking mess.
You got to go to the machines in the back of the store, you get a receipt... then walk back to get tokens then walk back and wait for a CS rep to open the locks..
then most times something is broken.. so you need a reps help or either the setting for foam soap ( sorry we ran out of that), or the plastic hose keeps falling off...
all the while your dog is fucking going nuts because it doesnt want to be in the bath tub... try lifting a 140lb dog into a steel bathtub when it wants to nope the fuck out. its hilarious.
It should just be a sealed shower room with a drain the middle of the floor.
When I go in business, I am going to destroy them with my outstanding service in all forms. Thanks for being such shitty competition!!
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>Works at Petco as a groomer.
>Constantly get people who complain their dogs nails aren't short enough
>Usually after going through the whole "dogs have a thing called a kwik" explanation they understand and go on their merry way
>One customer still doesn't understand or just chooses to be a fucking idiot and wants to talk to the manager
>Manager takes the groomers side on pretty much everything because we know what we're doing and aren't incompetent
>Takes my side and tries to explain to the customer in a nice way that they're an idiot and should listen to me
>Customer instead goes on a rant and says she will cut her own dogs nails then
>I proceed to warn her she will mutilate her dog and will need to take it to the vet and pay whatever that will cost instead of $10-$15 every month or two
>She rants, buys nail clippers and leaves
>I am so fucking sad for that dog when she leaves and sincerely wish I could call authorities to do something
> A few days later she's back and her dog is trailing blood all over the fucking store because she didn't fucking listen
>Comes in the salon and asks if we can fix it .....
>Dog is bleeding way too much for quick stop to do anything
>Tell her there's a vet across the street
>Haven't seen her since. Poor dog.
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>>2171042
No problem. Do what you have to do. Just curious if you had one on hand. Hope to see it if you get a chance to make it.
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>>2171758
Thank you! I thought so too.
I wish I had more to add but honestly work is just an amalgamation of the same bullshit all the time: People not knowing hermit crabs are hard as fuck to keep properly and can live forty years and get half a foot. Not knowing bettas ought to have heat and filtration because "they live in mud puddles hurr durr!!" Goldfish. Just goldfish as a whole. Families carrying over tiny cages and a bag of seeds, wanting a pair of parakeets. People pointing at bearded dragons telling stories about how "their friend" had one but it died--it never really got any bigger than that so it must have been easy and they wonder how they killed it, they gave it sand and everything! People coming in to complain that the hamster cage they bought is too small and the hamster got caught in the plastic tubes "designed for them." "You mean my (animal) can eat fruits and vegetables? That's so weird!" Yeah, most should, please fucking learn about your organism before purchasing it, I hate you so much. And so on.
Please someone come save me from this Hell.
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>>2172569
You forgot about the people who are bewildered by being told that algae eaters just turn algae into more poop.
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>>2165253
The Petsmart closest to me has puppies and kittens from shelters all the time.
I'm amazed I don't have like 50 cats by now...
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>>2170728
Pretty sure children should be banned from pet stores...and public places in general.
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>>2174245
Honestly, the teens annoy me more than the tots.
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I honestly want to work at a pet shop sometime. Like, petco.
I NEED to go into retail, and I love animals. A lot of these stories sound like fun, desu, a hellish fun.
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>Working at a pet store
>Lady says she has bought 4 comet goldfish a different points in the last few months
>All dead
>Says she keeps them in a bowl
>Tell her not to do that
>"What do you mean I shouldn't keep goldfish in a bowl? I see it in movies and TV shows all the time"
>MFW she literally said that
>"How much do you feed them?"
>"I give my fish a teaspoon of flakes once per day... Well, either a teaspoon or a tablespoon. I don't know which. Which ever one is bigger."
I have more stories if anyone wants to hear
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>>2175397
Please do tell.
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>>2175419
>Woman comes in and asks me to test her water
>Test it and its by far the worst water I've ever seen. No clue how anything is living in here
>4 of the 7 things I tested for were off the scale.
>Start asking her questions about her tank
>Its a 90 gallons with fully grown and baby cichlids
>After a while I figure out why the water is so bad
>"When I feed them, the large fish eat all the food before the small ones get a chance to eat so I just put more food in until the babies can eat"
>Tell her to consider getting a smaller tank for the babies to live in until they're large enough to compete with the adults for food. In the mean time, do a water change immediately or your fish will die.
>I don't really want to get another tank. The first one is enough work as it is. Plus it would be a lot of money
>I'm telling you how you can fix this problem. If you don't want to do anything that's fine but your fish wont live long as things stand.
>She leaves and comes back a week later with another water sample.
>Test it again and its exactly the same.
>Did you do a water change?
>"Yes, I changed a quarter of the water and used my gravel vac"
>Have you thought about getting a second tank for your small fish
>"Yes but I just don't want to do that"
>She leaves and comes back a week later
>Walks up to me and interrupts while I'm with another customer
>"Hey, I did exactly what you said to do and three of my fish died!!"
>Ask her to wait while I finish up with my current customer
>She mad
>After the first customer leaves, we begin to discuss what shes done with her tank in the last week
>She changed 100% of the water even though I specifically told her not to multiple times. She also, used tap water (we have really hard tap water here in Florida) which she put her fish in before adding water conditioner to it.
>"Well, I'm not coming back here anymore. You haven't helped me at all. What a waste of time!!!"
>She walks away and I haven't seen her in 3 months.
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>>2175431
>Old guy comes to my register with a bag of dog treats
>These particular treats come in two different sized bags which cost $4.99 for the small bag an $11.99 for the large bag.
>The small bag is right above the large bag on the shelf
>Ring him out
>Tell him his total is $12.XX
>He hands me a $20 bill then indignantly and loudly says to me "Wait that's not right."
>Wait patiently for him to continue talking
>"These are like five bucks and you're trying to charge me twice that? What the hell?"
>Start to explain to him that there are two different size bags of these treats and that the larger bag is $12
>"Guh-Ah-Well.... THAT'S RIDICULOUS GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK"
>Hand him his $20
>Walks out
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>Our store only has three registers
>Its fairly early in the day and I'm the only available cashier
>Other cashier is busy doing a merchandising project that the manager gave her in the back of the store. Manager is busy with a customer.
>There are four people in line at my register
>I'm ringing them out as quickly as I can
>Middle aged guy comes up and skips the line to put his items on the counter next to my register
>"Hey buddy, are you gonna go get someone to ring me out or what?"
I'm the only employee at the front of the store. We are required to greet all customers with a hello or similar as they enter the store and if I leave whats stopping people from walking out with merchandise without paying. I can't leave.
> Tell him Our other cashier is currently preoccupied but I'll be more than happy to ring you out once I've taken care of these folks as well.
>Leaves his stuff on the counter and walks toward that back of the line while telling the other customers waiting "Jesus the service here fucking sucks"
>Finish with the current customer, older lady, hand her her receipt and wish her a good weekend.
>She says to me "Thank you! And by the way I think you're doing a great job" while smiling, loud enough for the guy to hear.
>Smile back and say thank you
>As she turns to walk out she glares at the guy
>Have similar interactions with the remaining customers
>Scan the guys purchases, tell him his total and he swipes his debit card.
>Not authorized
>My eyes light up
>He insists he just typed in the wrong pin
>Try again
>Not authorized
>He can't pay for this shit
>Ayy lmao
>My face
>His face
>Walks out all angry
>Have a good day
>Him as loud as he can while exiting the store: "FUCKING FUCK"
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>>2175450
Going to sleep. Might post more tomorrow.
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>>2175450
I work at a pizza place and this is an amazing feeling. Nogs ALL THE TIME do something very similar or try to fluster you to push the interaction along because you are out of the store and alone. The other half of my post will be relevant.
>Order was made online, cash payment
>Get to door
>"Oh wanna pay with card and I have these coupons"
>Hands over a Vanilla card
>Asking me to hurry up while on the phone with the store to enter the card number in
>Denied
>Card 2 denied
>Thirds is accepted
>They don't have the coupons they said they did
Now at this point I usually would say fuck it but since they jerked me around and lied to me I feel compelled to jerk them around.
>Call the store to add the cost of not having the coupons
>Card denied
>Eat wings on way back to the store smiling like a fucking cunt.
>>2165206
The PetSmart and PetCo near us have never done us wrong.
I own 8 guinea pigs. 3 were from Smart and 2 were from Co as purchases.
One of the Smart ones was free due to an eyelid mole that is completely benign. One of the Co ones was a surrender that we adopted.
Every time the staff were very knowledgeable and actually encouraged us to not buy the cages at the store.
The other 3 are just a breeding accident some guy on Craigslist had and we swiped them up. They seem pretty healthy. The guy neutered the male and kept the parents together, he just couldn't keep a herd like we can.
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>>2175457
Our Petco is super nice.
However, one employee said you could house hamsters together. I think he MAY have been talking about syrians, but he may have not.
I feel really bad for saying "What? No they can't." when he was talking to a customer, it was rude of me.
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