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Anonymous
What does /an/ think of this place?
>> Anonymous
TO DIE!!!!!!!!
>> Anonymous
I work here.
>> Anonymous
Good for supplies, bad for advice and actual animals.
>> Anonymous
>>172086
How can that be? IT'S WHERE THE FUCKING PETS GO.
>> Anonymous
Everything at Petco is more expensive than at Publix (grocery store). Granted, Publix just has 1 aisle of cat/dog supplies but I only go to Petco if I can't get it at Publix.
>> Anonymous
I worked for the Natick MA Petco, store # 793. There were a few flaws in the place:

-feeder mice would escape and breed with wild mice in the mountains of overstock products in the back of the store. The mouse population grew so much that it expanded beyond the back room, to the backs of all the shelves throughout the whole store, and even under the cash registers.

At night the mice would come out and chew and shit on everything. We were told to wipe off and sell whatever we could. Of course there was so much merchandise that we couldn't possibly clean all of it, or even most of it.

If any of you shopped there between fall 2004 through most of '05 I guarantee you've bought products soaked in mouse excriment.
>> Anonymous
>>172102
Thanks.That's good to know...Why couldn't that of happened at Whole Foods? Knock them down a few pegs
>> Anonymous
>>172088

It's where the pets GO, not where they come from LOL
>> Anonymous
PETCO
Where the pets go
never to be heard from again.
>> Anonymous
>>172086
Agreed, good for supplies (although a little overpriced) but have at least a nice selection. Though I think they should be more of a product supplier rather than an animal supplier. Fish tanks selection is usually really nice and unlike Petsmart, they have salt water fish.
>> Anonymous
Does your Petco employees openly admit to eating the dog treats? Mine do and it kinda creeps me out.
>> Anonymous
They shouldn't sell rodents or certain reptiles they get.

they fucking suck at taking care of them.
>> Anonymous
PETCO openly advertises the adoption of small animals, reptiles and such in their store which can lead to people hording free animals, although sometimes there is a fee...which can be as much as buying a new animal. Sounds like Gamestop.
>> Anonymous
Depends on the Petco. I've been to one that had everything in pristine well taken care of condition. One I went to recently was just ok, nothing to horrible, or appalling, but nothing overly great either.
>> Anonymous
>>172290
What else are we going to do when we're bored?
>> Anonymous
i've never gone to a petco that didn't have sick fish. even the one that opened up brand new here had ich-infested tanks like a week in. seriously, what the hell. i worked at a petsmart for almost two years and we never had problems like that.
>> Anonymous
I don't like Petco because the last few times I went there, about a decade ago, the amphibians and fish were dying or left for dead in the tank. Really, really sad.
Petsmart doesn't seem to be bad at all but I stopped shopping there after the poisoned gluten fiasco earlier in 2007. Now I shop at Wag'N'Wash because their food is better for my kitty.
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Fuck Petco. I go to Good Vibrations. My pussy and cock (pick related) LOVE that place.
>> Anonymous
wat
>> Anonymous
>>172387
OH JESUS! That pic reminds me of a thing I saw on youtube, it was a weird Japanese show where they showed various interesting pets and wild animals, a certain clip was of a hen that adopted a kitten then it cut to some years later and the cat was still living with the hen, sleeping in the nest with the hen sitting on it.
>> Anonymous
>>172359
it happens, our suppliers can be shit sometimes. I'm the SW lead at one, i'm battling ich in one of my banks and anchorworms in my goldfish bank (of course all these fish are temporarily not for sale and are noted as such by signs i've placed on their tanks)

i've also got lots of experience as an amphib and reptile keeper (i breed poison dart frogs and keep hot snakes) so i'm also the reptile lead, ours do pretty well. we have some dead loss but its usually more to shipping woes and they die within 1-2 days of arriving (i usually give new arrivals a pedialyte soak and treat them with fenbendazole for parasites)
>> Anonymous
Petsmart is superior
>> Anonymous
There is a petco by my house. That said, I bought online from petsmart. There is a local petland, and I buy my fish there. Petco is a huge store and only has one or two cars there at a time, and I think they are just decoys.
>> Anonymous
>>172442
my store averages around 5k a day in sales, the company as a whole has about a 12% share of the market where petsmart has around 30%, and of course petco is much bigger on the west coast so depends where you live. petco pays better than petsmart i can tell you that, i make 9 bucks an hour part time with health/dental
>> Anonymous
>>172292

You can't blame an entire chain of stores for one employee. If you have a fucking problem then you should be the one to step in and take care of them since you seem to imply you have superior knowledge and ability to care for them.
>> Anonymous
>>172444
I make 10 full time with life, health, dental, eye, etc at Petsmart...course I'm paying for that shit, it don't come free you know.
>> That Gomez
My cousin is a groomer at a petco. She's mentioned that they have a free grooming school provided that you work there a year and start as a lowly bather. I'm actually considering it, as she's making pretty good money.

Anyone know if the superior PetSmart has anything similar?
>> Anonymous
>>172462
at the petsmart by my house, its 6 months as a bather, then free grooming school as long as you sign a contract to be a groomer there for at least two years. They get paid well too.
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Shit ass petfuckers.

Where pets go...

To get fucked!
>> Anonymous
>>172459
i live in NC, having talked to other petco employees that worked at petsmart they don't pay that well in this area.
>> Anonymous
>>172102
lololol That's why you go across the parking lot to Pet World.
They have more interesting animals anyways...
>> Anonymous
I worked in the grooming department. I had fun, but overall, the place sucks.