Can Ribbons live with Garters?

[ConcinusMan]

It's just handed down information from one employee to another or manager to employee. They don't think to check into it to see if it's what's best.
When a customer comes in and trys to help they take offense and keep doing things the way they've always been done.

Usually, yes. But to my surprise, I was very pleased when the petco near my house actually listened to me and stopped feeding goldfish to their ribbon snakes and started feeding them F/T silversides. This was after I brought some concinnus babies, my blue anery's, and my iowa albino radix in and showed them off. I think after that, they could see I had healthy snakes and I knew what I was talking about.

[guidofatherof5]

That's great for those snakes. To bad you can't send a memo to all the other stores.

[ConcinusMan]

I don't think corporate would go for it. All the stores that have ribbons would have to open a pack of silversides and I'm sure not all the snakes will go for them. They just got lucky at this store because the 3 ribbons they had there weren't very nervous and so went for the silversides as the clerks wiggled it using tongs. Or so they tell me. I don't think they even asked for permission from management to do it. Furthermore, they are still feeding baby corns on nothing but crickets. Now, they feed the few kings they get in once in a while on pinkies, and the ball pythons get live adult mice. The baby corns are too small for whole pinkies but I guess the thought never occurred to them, to chop up the friggen pinkies for cryin' out loud! Naturally, every time they get a few baby corns in, I come back in a few weeks to a month, and any that are left are nearly too far gone to save. Skin and bones. I saw a really nice lavender "ghost" corn or whatever they are called, newborn, wasted away to nothing.

Heck, they have to open coconut fiber or reptibark substrate and use it in the store but management, corporate, or whoever, makes them use a pathetically small amount. Like 1/2 inch or less. Ridiculous.

In this economy, and the prices they charge, the store is always just dead. almost nobody goes in there. I think their days are numbered.

[kibakiba]

The pet shop we go to, while they charge a lot for everything, they seem to take care of their reptiles. They are in small enclosures, but they have a lot of substrate and the people who work there are always interacting with them and bringing them out and letting them walk around the room, especially with the larger reptiles since they are in pretty small areas for their size.

[ConcinusMan]

Actually, what they are doing (letting them out and such) isn't necessarily, and I say "necessarily" a responsible thing to do. Seems to me that if the enclosures are too small, the responsible thing to do would be to put them in larger enclosures.

[kibakiba]

Well, they have limited space, there's barely any walking room in there, so I think it's mnice of them to let the animals get exercise since they do have limited space. At least they're TRYING to do something for them. Quit being so negative all the time.

[ConcinusMan]

Sorry if I sounded negative. perhaps I was wrong. In the summer or any other time when it's at least 60 degrees outside, I take my biggest snakes out and let them go for it out on the lawn. I let them "run" while keeping a close eye on them, so they can get some serious exercise. I think it's good for them.