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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scj0nes" data-source="post: 26061" data-attributes="member: 2670">I had these exact thoughts the other day when I went into Petco. Over the past couple of weeks, they've had a G. Rosea for sale, saying they had recently gotten it shipped over from another store. After some weeks of thinking and convincing my dad that I need more tarantulas (I'm addicted), I finally got it. At the store, it's enclosure was very wet and too large for it, the water dish was disgusting, and they had a large heat lamp over it along with the reptiles next to it. But the worst part was probably when they took it out for me. While they wouldn't let me take it out, they thought it was surely safe to let an inexperienced teenager handle it. He slammed the cages open and ripped the T's wooden hide out from above it. I could keep going, but I think you all get the gist of this. It was just awful.</blockquote>