the people att the petstore don't know very much about animals....when i got my budgie at petco they told me that "i should be proud for choosing a male keet!" i lookded up on the internet about how to tell what it was and it was a female....that is not the only time that people at petstores were wrong.....once i heard a lady ask if she should brred her rabbit because it seemed stressed out from a move......they said yes and they talked her into buying a 3o$ bunny............that was a petland.......that's why i take things into my own hands when it comes to knowing things about animals before i go into a petstore.....lol