Well, I won't string out my comments or anything... I hesitate to even post it, because I know in general, we don't want to talk down on any LFS stores left these days... but I must say my experience the one time I went there to get what I hoped at the time (but ended up being wrong) was a female festae, was... well... so-so.
I'll just say that to me, Richard just does not seem like a very nice guy... and leave it at that. Robin is a peach, however, and super helpful. One thing that was a big turn off for me regarding Richard was, he told me he had female festae on the phone, but then refused to show me which ones were the females when I got there. I would have rather he told me he wasn't sure if he had females, because Riverdale Pets is not close to me at all, and I drove there expecting to see obvious females. They were all pretty stressed out and it was really tough to tell and pretty much, I was on my own. Like I said, I guessed wrong, but that said, the male is now quite a specimen. He looks great right now, actually. So at least there is that. I was still happy when they were thinking about moving down my way though... there is NOTHING in Waldorf. Sigh... LOL...
-Rich