Thread: Pet shop staff need better training GRRRRRRR

I decided to buy Buddy a play tunnel today and went to my local well known High Street Chain store. Explained the breed and what I wanted and left with an XL Cat Tunnel. Got it home and after some unhelpful paw help it was assembled and I immediately thought "that's XL?" Well Buddy dived in and promptly got stuck in the tunnel. Eventually coaxed him to crawl out. Packed it back up and took off back to store. I explained that my cat had got stuck and showed them pics on phone of head out one end tail out the other. I was "advised" that my cat was obviously fatally over weight to the extent that the sales assistant decided he should call the RSPCA. I very calmy explained that Buddy was a coonie and therefore very large. The spotty little oik then decided that a Maine Coon does not excist and there is no way that it is normal to have a nearly 2 stone cat who is tip of nose to end of tail over 5 feet long. (I plan to take Buddy for a walk on his harness and Halti on Sunday if he still works there, I have to use Halti for no other reason than he sees the Sams on them!). Thankfully a very lovely trainee took over and I left with a small dog tunnel, we had to remove the squeeky cat but. Budz really loves the tunnel now and hasn't stopped playing in it.

Someone else may have half starved a large cat, not just coonie but Bengal etc if they had taken the shops assistance advice and that worries me.

Anyone else had similar experiences?