I understand where you are coming from and if I were in your shoes, I would get a little frustrated. Unfortunately there are more pet stores that do not know enough about what they keep than do, and sadly it gives petstores a bad name. There is a great store that keeps all kinds of chiclids and that is where I go for real info about my fish. I wish more places were like that but it's not, ya know just about the all mighty dollar.
Yeah, I'm surprised at some of the comments by some usually pretty smart people here concerning pet store employees (considering there's got to be quite a few members here such as yourself that do work/have worked at pet stores). I do agree that there are many pet store employees that do say some pretty amazing(to be polite) things but to make blanket statements that all of them are lacking in the IQ department is just rude/offensive/insensitive to those that aren't.
Lo, and behold, it just so happened that the Discovery Channel showed him the light to his first T. Well, I had just started to get out the phrase "That is the most absurd thing I've ever h......." when my 5-year old son interrupted me and said "Pokies are better!!!!"
*Currently in stitches*
I agree. None of us here need "saving." Unless you start going in debt from buying too many. I would not tell any of my neighbors what I had when I get my tarantulas. A girl my sister's friends with had seen our chinchilla and asked her mom for one. The mother replied, "No, they're illegal here." :wall:
I know. That's one on my list. But first I have to get the top 2 that are on there. Plus, I want to get a terrarium to make a little pond for a H. gigas.
At least in the end they listened to my correct information. It's funny that people will tell you what they know about a subject, even though it's completely wrong, instead of asking questions. 
What could possibly be said about this beyond "Ignorance is bliss! Stupidity is bovine!"
haha koh...who asked you that?
This statement is just infuriating..and arrogant..
Yeah...and if you get them warm enough, then they pull back together just like terminator...
Tell them that you'll kick their cat if you see it outside - - - same thing.
^I like this, especially the first paragraph.I think it's important to be kind to people.
If you go around with the attitude that most people in the world are stupid, and if you are constantly in search of the newest shocking stupidity, that's pretty much what you'll find.
Everybody is stupid sometimes. Everybody has their areas of ignorance.
Personally, I take great pleasure in talking to people about my pets.
Last week I had the luck to be able to substitute teach a second grade class for an entire week. The regular teacher had a family emergency, so I ended up responsible for *all* the lesson plans. I brought my small collection in, which burned up some major classroom time.
There was one little girl who started the week arachnophobic, and on Friday afternoon, told me, "Bolt (my a.avic) is so cute! I just want to squeeze him! I know you can't...of course...but you know what I mean, he's so cuuuute!"
Most people don't get to have this girl's experience at a formative age.
As for pet stores, it's their managers who should be judged more than the clerks. No clerks in any store are adequately trained, because management doesn't want to burn money on training. I have found this to be generally true, no matter what the industry. The clerks are directed to perform certain tasks in a certain way. By the time they leave work, after a day of ringing people up and straightening shelves and cleaning up dog poo, they have their own lives and families to deal with.
It's awful for the animals not to be taken care of properly, but I'm not sure that copping a superior attitude to people who have to obey orders to earn their daily bread is the solution. If animals are being mistreated, the people to talk to are the managers.
Why don't yours have one? Mine all LOVE theirs;sometimes they spin 2 or 3 at a time, holding each others' feetNot exactly a comment or remark, rather a semi-retarded sales pitch some old guy tried to sell me, when I was looking around in his petstore - after I had mentioned that I keep spiders.
I didn't know how to react other than I was speechless. For a second I thought he was joking - but no.
Better than the other way around, dontcha think?
HAha.. Bcscorp's got his Canadians crossed!hi bcscorp
are you talking to me? or is hobo's name Koh? lol