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#180172
BoaBabe448
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This upsets me very much! 
I went to the petshop to get mice, and this teenage guy was looking at kinnk and slick, those are the adult BPs they have had for 8 months so I named them, and he was telling his friend " I want one of those" "why" his friend replied,"because its a python, it’ll get big" I about slapped the crap out of the guy! And he knows nothing abotu them! He came to the petshop to get his friend a rabbit! Gosh it has been bothering me all night! I am scared that he got it, cus he wont know what to do! I feel bad for those snakes, 1.) Cus they have been in the petshop for so long. 2.) because he possibly will buy one of them. And for some reason I don’t want the petshop to sell them, because I am kind of attached lol. I have been looking at them once a week for the past 9 months, I would be sad if someone so ignorant like him bought them.
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11/12/04 7:00pm
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#180181
JasonN
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Message To: BoaBabe448 In reference to Message Id: 180172
This upsets me very much!
I had a similar experience with a teenage kid at a local pet store about a year ago. He told the clerk that he wanted a snake that, "would be nice and mellow but get really big, ’cause that would be really cool ’n stuff!" Although I felt upset, I didn’t show it. Instead, I struck up a conversation with him and started educating him about snakes in general and the species he was looking at. I bored him at some length about the pros, the cons, the responsibility and longevity of snakes, etc. I don’t know if he ever purchased a snake, but I’m sure he had a much better idea of what he was getting himself into. Sometimes, hard as it can be, you have to try to turn a negative into a positive. Keep your chin up BoaBabe! With some luck kinnk and slick will be there the next time you pickup snacks for your critters.
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11/12/04 7:24pm
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#180184
BoaBabe448
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Message To: JasonN In reference to Message Id: 180181
This upsets me very much!
Yea, I really hope so. I was gonna be like, well snakes are alot of responsability, and you have to give alot of your time devoted to them etc. but then my ride was honking so I had to go, I really hope he didn’t get the snake, not just cus I like them being at the petshop (lol) but for the sake of the snake.
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11/12/04 7:29pm
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#180585
Scott14
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Message To: BoaBabe448 In reference to Message Id: 180184
This upsets me very much!
tht sux!
he probably wont get them! You always gets kids saying oh! i want to get a python etc cause they get really big!! and can kill you because they want 2 impress there friends!
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11/13/04 5:43pm
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#180673
BoaBabe448
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Message To: Scott14 In reference to Message Id: 180585
This upsets me very much!
He didn’t get it. I went back today to get stuff for Quigley’s (my new BP that arrives tues.) tank, and they were in their. I was so glad to see their cute little faces. I think next time I go in I am going to ask if I can hold one, because I really want to, they let me hold other snakes, so I think they’d let me hold it.
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11/13/04 7:16pm
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#180721
Munkyboy
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Message To: BoaBabe448 In reference to Message Id: 180673
This upsets me very much!
Ah! Quigley. Much better than Nophete or Olaf. 
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11/13/04 8:42pm
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#181005
Scott14
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Message To: Munkyboy In reference to Message Id: 180721
This upsets me very much!
well thts gd 2 hear!
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11/14/04 10:44am
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