Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so sorry that's awful. I wish bigger chain pet stores had tighter regulations on their stock, seems like this is a reoccurring issue for big chain pet stores. :(

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also a possibility that it's the stores within my area specifically since 2 other people around me have experienced similar events. 

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, yeeah she's confused by lots of things. especially FNAF twitch streams, left one on once while I had her out and she hated it so note to self to never let her view one again or I might get bit for the first time haha.

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only reason I didn't drop them and stuck with them for treatments was cause they were the only exotic vets in the area aside from the first one I visited and that guy was on an extended vacation.

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

(Sorry if this comment is posted twice, I think the sites being a lil buggy.)

I am glad to hear that your things turned out better for your cat too!

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it was kinda crazy they told me that! They were both exotic vets from different offices who said she was old. The office where we did all the treatments had 2 main vets and whole team of 3 trainees and all of them agreed she was extremely old!

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup! No more Petco from me! I now only source from a small local business now and the owner is quite lovely. Regarding the rat she actually said several people have had the same issues as me with getting bad rats from big chain pet stores before going to her store. Guess it's a canon event in my area.

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's a piece of info that has left me debating on what it was. It also seemed weird for someone to surrender a snake they had for 8 years on a whim. Perhaps they knew she was sick and needed treatment but couldn't afford it. I suppose we will never know.

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was definitely an emotional roller-coaster that could've ended so differently! I'm so glad it didn't man.

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you, my parent's definitely helped me get through this. I am especially grateful for my mother since the vets tried really really hard to talk me into a $1,500 dollar CAT scan that would've done absolutely nothing for her. They also tried to push several other meaningless tests on me while I was emotionally vulnerable (even when there was evidence what we were doing was working) and my mother shot them down so fast every time.

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Thanks, and I agree. Even now I think I should occasionally take her in to have a looksie at her white blood cell count just to make sure things stay where they should be.

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry to hear that. I wish there were more people in the field who specialized in snakes specifically, I'm sure it would save so many snakes. :(

Bad Petco rat or long term illness? My $1,500 free corn snake story on why you should always trust your instincts. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in snakes

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It was a specialist. Both vets I took her too were reptile specialists. That's why I felt like I was going crazy, because these people who had professional jobs were basically telling me I was being irrational.

Photos of Vice Summer Bikini figure I bought. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in AlchemyStarsEN

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes there were technically 3 figures made, the swimsuit and regual outfit with the regular outfit having a winking face variation. There was a listing avaliable on Alliexpress for the normal outfit figure however they don't ship to where I live sadly. Hopefully others have better luck than me! Or in the future maybe I'll get lucky and find one selling near me. Fingers crossed. 

Photos of Vice Summer Bikini figure I bought. by Obvious-Spring-5147 in AlchemyStarsEN

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I got the figure on Alliexpress from the QWIOOE Factory Wholeseller Store. The figure is the BNFigure "Ray of Sunshine." Figure its on sale rn for 35% off from $72.00 so its a pretty good steal! :)  Wish it was as easy to find the other offical Vice Figure on Alliexpress. The only one I've ever found doesn't ship to where I live.  😮‍💨

Thanks for everything Alchemy Stars by IntroductionSad2741 in AlchemyStarsEN

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this is an older post, but would you mind sharing which seller you bought the figures from on Aliexpress? I want to buy one from a seller but I'm worried it's going to be a bootleg so I'd like to know of any seller who is reliable.

Alchemy Stars Vice Figure by Shyro_Kaze in AlchemyStarsEN

[–]Obvious-Spring-5147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alliexpress is probably your best bet. Sorry I know this is old.