Do you shop at PETCO?

**Desert Arabian** · 10-05-2002, 10:24 AM

I have been to Petco only two times, and I loved it! If PETA wants to complain about some sick pets store, they need to travel here to Wisconsin. The pet store where I rescued my two rats Skittles and Oreo, "Pet World" is GUT WRENCHING!! First of all, they told me that Skittles was really sick, and could not be sold. The salesperson (a lady) said she had a terrible cold. Her other cagemates couldn't be sold either, incase they were brewing the sickness. I ignored all the "bad health" statements, because just watching Skittles frantically paw on the glass was tearing my heart to pieces. I told the salesperson I want to see her (Skittles). I gave her a little examination: she had no visable eye or nose problems, and her breathing was just fine. I bought Skittles, and Oreo from that dump and took them home. The salesperson told me I would have to give her Pedialyte (sp.) for her diarrhea. As soon as she (Skittles) got setteled into her new home she was happy as could be, she wasn't sick!!!

Well, over the weeks since I bought them Pet World got sicker and sicker! They have crickets running all over the store, you step on a lot of them too. They have a freezer, out on the main floor, with see-through glass doors, full of bags of rats- from pinkys to adults covered in freezer burn. They also had full-body frozen rabbits too. THAT IS SICK TO SEE WHEN YOU ARE SHOPPING IN THE STORE!! When I go to the pet store, I have to look at every single display, except for the birds (they are too loud!

) Well, in the fish room they had tanks full of dead fish, there had to be over 10 dead fish in every tank. They had a newt tank too, and the newts looked extremely sick, and had white absesses all over their bodies. The live ones had to swim amungst the dead ones, just like the fish. In the reptile room, and was drooling over the snakes, since I like snakes, and I came to a tank with a baby Ball Python. I saw the snake laying on its side, not on its belly, its side. It never moved- IT WAS DEAD TOO!! I called a salesperson over, and I was kinda snippy I'll admit, and told her to take the damn thing off of display! Then I went to the small animal room. In the rabbit tanks, they had huge water bottles- WITH GREEN ALGAE (looked like) FLOATING AND CAKED ON THE INSIDE OF THE BOTTLES!!!!!!! All the bottles looked like the rabbit took one sip, and hated it. I have never seen a more disgusting place in my life!

The only time I will buy something there, is when I absolutely need it, and no other pet store has that item. I usually go in that pet store about once or twice a month, just to see how the place looks. This place is sick! Oh, yeah... I find this funny. I payed $5.99 each for two rats, that was in 2001- today they are charging $11.99ea. for pet rats. HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Get real! This place is located in Waukesha,WI just to let you know. Waukesha is about 10 min. away from Milwaukee.

There ya got PETA, another case to investagate!