Proper Spots

It's only taken us like six months.
To finally set the reptile planner.

As with our animals, in the store, they're not supposed to be placed willy nilly in the habitats.
We actually have set cages in each section for the animals to go into.
And as we add in animals or take away animals, the cages that the animals are in can change. Moved from cage 1 to cage 2 etc.

We have that for all the animals.
The Fish,
The Birds,
The Small Pets.
And the Reptiles.

And usually they're switched around a couple of times a year. Usually towards Summer and then again Towards Winter.

Out of the four listed above.
Only the Small Pets do we disregard the planner. We end up going through hamsters and guinea pigs fast enough that when a cage empties out, if there's no more of that type of animal available to bring out, we just stick a different breed into the slot. That way, we keep our cages full and customers mostly happy.

The other three sections, it's pretty easy to keep them to planner.
Birds. Super easy.
Fish, Pretty easy.

Reptiles....should have been easy.

But it wasn't.
Why?

Because for whatever reason. We ended up having two resets super close together.
Like they had us reset the reptiles in April...
and then again in July.
Super close together.

And in that first reset.
Whoever was in charge of deciding what animals we would be selling.
Thought it would be a good idea for basically half of the cages to become snake habitats.
Mostly of the ball python varieties and their morphs.

Only, we set the planner.
And no snakes came.
Week after week.
Month after month.
The cages sat empty because the snakes we were supposed to be getting in.
Never showed up.

Until.
They did.
We got in a bunch of our new snakes!

And then...like a week or two later....
In the reptile shipment....
We got in animals....that we shouldn't have been carrying anymore.
Like the Chinese Water Dragon. And I believe the Asian Forest Scorpion.

Confused, I checked the planner again.
And discovered.
That they'd updated the reptiles once more.
To bring back the animals they said we weren't going to be getting in, and getting rid of.....

You guessed it.
The snakes we'd finally gotten in.

Now. Suddenly they no longer had a spot in our planner.
Yet, I still had them.
Which meant, I had to get super creative on ensuring that all the various reptiles had a cage to call home.

And that meant....that I couldn't place our animals in their expected locations.
Mostly...because two of the snakes we got in....were super big! Like already a year old when they came in. O.o
And in the original reset....they were supposed to go into our smallest cages. Ha.
They were waaaaaay too small for snakes their size.
And so I moved them into larger cages.
Which meant the reptiles in those larger cages needed to be placed in different cages...
And so commenced a bit of ring around the rosie.

But finally.
FINALLY.
Today while I was cleaning cages.
I was able to place the animals in their spots!!
We'd finally sold the snakes that we weren't carrying any more.

It only took like six months. lol.

Watch.
In the next couple of weeks or so, we're going to get a notice that the planner is being reset again. And I'll have to move everyone around once more. :)
But for now.
It's complete! Ha!

-Sarnic Dirchi