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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
 Posted - 31/08/2011 : 22:44:57
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| popped into pets at home today to pick up some frozen food and got talking to one of the guys that works there and found out that they will be selling corn snakes again in the future ... tbh I didnt even know that they have ever sold them ... anyway I don't have much experience with pets at home apart from getting my frozen mice from there sometimes ... anyway thought I'd share :) |
 
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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mkmattyk
banned
United Kingdom
837 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 22:51:28
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| have far into the future cause there at least one near me would be nice to know they have started to sell corns (just one more excuse to buy more corn) lols |
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paulie78
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2331 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 22:55:08
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| Urgh thats kinda worrying i remmeber when pets at home started selling reptiles here i was in there the first day to see the manager as theyd previously sold me fish infected with whitespot ugh he was telling me that when all the stores decided to start selling reptiles all of the managers had to attend a one day course in the care/handling of reptiles !! one day!! omg i was stunned |
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0.2.0 Chinchillas
1.1.0 Cats
1.1.0 Birds
0.0.2 Fishtanks
0.0.1 Cali Kingsnake
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 22:57:12
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he said within the next couple of months .... I bet they will charge a fortune though, their beardies are like £70 each  |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
4334 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 22:58:13
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| 1 day course is more than most newbie snake keepers (including myself). My Pets at Home (Belfast) is an amazing shop, lovely stock, animals, adoption corner, staff are evry helpful and know their stuff. My only complaint is their prices, though their live food is SO cheap. |
Anery Corn snake SPOT. Royal Python, DUKE. Hogg Island Boa, SANKE. Albino House Snake, HAL.
Harlequin Crested Gecko HARLEY
Albino Horned Frog WAKA
Chilean Rose Tarantula TRIXIE. Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula SAM. Orange Baboon Tarantula BORIS.
Giant Asian Forest Scorpion, SALLY.
Giant African Land Snails, SHELDON & MICHELLE.
Budwing Mantis, MAIA
Dubia Roach Colony. Silkworm Colony. Mealworm Colony. Waxworm Colony. Fruit Beetle Colony.
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 22:59:45
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| yeah, I also remember hearing that a lot of the staff are not very experienced with reptiles |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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paulie78
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2331 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:00:46
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yes but its only the managers attend the course not all staff ours is ok long as your not wanting fish theyre aqautics dept is pretty bad its not the worst place in town
Havent bought any live food from them but theyre frozen mice are cheapest in the area cost me 9 quid last week for 12 pinkies and 12 fuzzies which i thought was quite reasonable |
6.8.0 Corn Snakes http://buzzsprehistoricpets.yolasite.com/
1.1.0 Royal
0.2.0 Chinchillas
1.1.0 Cats
1.1.0 Birds
0.0.2 Fishtanks
0.0.1 Cali Kingsnake
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:04:06
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Originally posted by lotabob
1 day course is more than most newbie snake keepers (including myself). My Pets at Home (Belfast) is an amazing shop, lovely stock, animals, adoption corner, staff are evry helpful and know their stuff. My only complaint is their prices, though their live food is SO cheap.
The one near me isn't too good, once I went in to ask about a hamster and the man was like "ummmm don't know" to every question i asked, i guess some stores are better than others |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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Seraea
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
35 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:09:01
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| The pets at home closest to me sells hatchling corns, all morphs they get in for £50 each. they had a gorgeous little pewter in there recently, i just didn't have the cash to buy it :( Kept striking at the girl showing it off though lol |
1.1.1 Corn Snakes (Nero, Gaia, Jeremy) 0.0.2 Bearded Dragons (Jack and Mojo) |
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:09:23
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I agree, the frozen food is cheap ... 1 large mouse costs me £1.10 also the mice look in good condition (apart from the obvious  ) |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:11:26
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Originally posted by Seraea
The pets at home closest to me sells hatchling corns, all morphs they get in for £50 each. they had a gorgeous little pewter in there recently, i just didn't have the cash to buy it :( Kept striking at the girl showing it off though lol
cheaper than what I'd have guessed |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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Hissyfit
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:30:48
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| A friend of mine is a manager at Pets at home and recently went on a 2 week course to care for snakes. Sadly she's still terrified of them, and has invited my 10 yr old in to handle the babies when they arrive to help get them tame. Niamh is so excited and can't wait until the snakes arrive lol. |
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:40:56
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| she's so lucky ... I want to hold all the baby snakes lol |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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Longshanks
Egg
50 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:42:22
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Had an embarrassing ordeal in a pets at home store once, went into look at getting Shere Khan (my corn) some viv paraphernalia and was looking at the bearded dragons they had thinking hmmmm can I afford it ? Then noticed one of the dragons had about 7 or 8 White lumps with red sores around the edges. So I asked the girl a few questions to get to the question of the lumps
'so are they kept ok ? As that ones got sores round its mouth and eyes'
(girl) ' where ?'
(me) 'there you see ? Looks nasty, little White lumps and red sores round them'
(girl 'actually sir that's strawberry.....it's been eating strawberries and it's the little seeds of the skin......
(me) 'oh.....right'
(girl, eyes saying w***er but fixed smile) 'will there be anything else ?,
(me) 'um....no.....um....thanks' run
So the moral is they're not all bad I think :) |
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:45:50
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| LOL bet you didn't go back in there for a while |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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Longshanks
Egg
50 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2011 : 23:53:24
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paulie78
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2331 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 00:07:43
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Ive nothing against Pets at home or any pet stores but when it comes to animals especially reptiles i dont think a learn as you go approach on the job is very sensible especially not when you have people such as myself new to the Hobby not knowing much you expect places that sell animals to be able to advise you on the animals needs/care appopriately.
As i mentioned before in a previous thread regarding thermostats 3 of the 4 places in town that sell reptiles dont actually sell them and funnily enough the only one that did sell them was the only place that insisted they must be used if you plan to keep reptiles (the others said they were unessacery and that the animal would move itself if it got too hot!!)
In pets at homes defence whenever i have had a problem theyve been more than happy to rectify it and have on ocasion thrown in extras as compensation.
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1.1.0 Royal
0.2.0 Chinchillas
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0.0.2 Fishtanks
0.0.1 Cali Kingsnake
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eekamouse
Egg
71 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 00:11:15
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| i thought you had to be a premier league footballer, or at least a millionaire to shop at PAH! |
0.1.0 yorkshire terrier 'poppy'
0.0.1 cornsnake 'curly' |
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paulie78
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2331 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 00:15:23
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They do charge a lot for theyre animals 90 quid for a chinny and thats just a standard grey lol silly money i wont buy any animals from them anymore everything ive bought from them has ended up being put to sleep :-(
they seem ok for dry goods though and they are by far the cheapest place locally for me for frozen mice Ten fuzzies from PAH = £4 ish Ten fuzzies from local garden centre pet centre £9! |
6.8.0 Corn Snakes http://buzzsprehistoricpets.yolasite.com/
1.1.0 Royal
0.2.0 Chinchillas
1.1.0 Cats
1.1.0 Birds
0.0.2 Fishtanks
0.0.1 Cali Kingsnake
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fluffycorn
Yearling
United Kingdom
514 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 00:21:59
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quote:
Originally posted by eekamouse
i thought you had to be a premier league footballer, or at least a millionaire to shop at PAH!
I was looking at hides they sold while I was there too, a coconut cave was £6.99, when fluffy was small i'd buy a coconut for about 50p and make a hide myself
to be fair, I like the adoption corner they have, nice to see unwanted animals get a second chance. My corn was a rescue, i got him when he was about 3 months old |
1.0.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1.0 Jack Russell Terrier |
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paulie78
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2331 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2011 : 00:47:00
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| Lol ive made a few of the coconut hides myself for the tropical fish my Bristlenose plecs love spawning in them |
6.8.0 Corn Snakes http://buzzsprehistoricpets.yolasite.com/
1.1.0 Royal
0.2.0 Chinchillas
1.1.0 Cats
1.1.0 Birds
0.0.2 Fishtanks
0.0.1 Cali Kingsnake
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