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Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / May 2007Denny's Pet World
Well this week was an interesting one to say the very least. I took my boys to the vet for a once over basically. Got lost on the way and also kicked off the bus even though they were in a pet carrier as specified by the local metro offices. Anyway, I strolled into Denny's Pet World hoping they would have the vets # as I lost it. As I waited for the owner to look it up in the back room, I decided to wander around the store a bit. This store is a lot closer than Petco is to us and I figured I could pick up the boys food and toys from here instead. I found lots of goodies, yay! However I found their rodent section as well! Wow, is all I have to say! I am very disappointed with what I saw. They had to huge bucks in an itty bitty aquarium, looked like a 10gallon! On a sign stuck to the glass it says "baby rats, 9.99". What the H3ll baby rats. The owner came over and said "Oh would you like to buy these baby rats?" I told her no, that those are by far not baby rats! She told me they were dumbo's! like h3ll they are. They were the size of my hairless buck I had back in Winnipeg. She told me I could buy them and take em home for my boys to play with. They were huge compared to my babies who are really babies not a cartoon world version of what she is telling me. At any rate, once I got to the vets, I talked to the vet tech and told her what happened. She was very upset so she went down and ended up taking all the rats home. The does and the bucks. YAY for her! I am still floored that this broad was trying to sell me full grown bucks as babies! I may be Canadian but I am not dumb! (really Im not!) Anyway that was my adventure to the vets! (oh yea, I forgot to mention, the vet came and picked me up since I was lost, isnt that the sweetest thing?) Dawn and the clan! > They had to huge bucks in an itty bitty aquarium, looked like a > 10gallon! On a sign stuck to the glass it says "baby rats, 9.99". What > the H3ll baby rats. Well, in my experience when people say they've seen a wild rat they often follow it with the statement "and it was THIS BIG!" - holding their hands out to something about the size of a large cat. So if people think that's what the adults look like, I can imagine unknowing customers could be persuaded that those monster bucks were babies :-) My local garden centre/pet shop does have some baby dumbos, does and bucks, but they're only about 4 or 5 weeks old, and I don't think they're willing to sell them till 6 weeks (though they're already separated). It would have taken some real willpower to walk out of there empty-handed, if they hadn't still been too young for sale. It's a good technique, I think - separating at four weeks then giving them two weeks where they get used to the ambient noise in the shop (not too loud, thankfully) and people coming up to the cage and saying hello - and it also means customers have two whole tantalising weeks to be tempted by these babies before they can buy them - and also maybe to think about whether buying a pet rat is a responsible thing to do. I should think when they're old enough to sell they'll all be sold extremely quickly, though - they're lovely, healthy-looking, lively and pretty-coloured rats. Rosemary > Well this week was an interesting one to say the very least. I took my > boys to the vet for a once over basically. Got lost on the way and [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Dawn and the clan! Sorry you had such a hard time, you ought to write a letter of complaint to the bus company! It sounds like your vet's a star - hope you can hang on to her! Tracey > Well this week was an interesting one to say the very least. I took my > boys to the vet for a once over basically. Got lost on the way and [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Dawn and the clan! I've encountered some pretty stupid store clerks too. The one that takes the cake was in North Bay in Northern Ontario. They had a sign up, Blue Dumbos. I asked them where are the blue dumbos... the clerk tells me, blue means they are all one colour and dumbo means they have curly fur. I told them they were wrong and told them what it means and he said will that's not what our manager told us. LOL ah yes, cause managers know everything. I walked out laughing...  SignatureJoanne Owned by 23 rats. Webshots: http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 ------------------------------------------------------- ~Ignorance is not innocence but sin. *Robert Browning* >> Well this week was an interesting one to say the very least. I took my >> boys to the vet for a once over basically. Got lost on the way and [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > not what our manager told us. LOL ah yes, cause managers know everything. > I walked out laughing... i once saw at petsmart or petcetera a cage full of rats for sale. right next to it they had a cage full of rats marked "fancy rats". the price was double and the rats looked no different except that they were differently colored than the "regular" rats. |
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