Too many to count...
I've worked at a pet store for the last three years. It is probably safe to say I've seen at least one dead animal for every day I've worked there. But there are some that have stuck with me:

-The baby corn snake that died underneath his fake tree with his mouth frozen wide open. Gave me quite a shock when I lifted up his cover only to see him (presumably) ready to bite my finger off. I moved him with my pen rather than touch him.

-The dwarf hamster who had his face ripped off down to his skull by a tankmate. He wasn't quite dead when I discovered him.

-The red-eared slider (water turtle) who had managed to crawl into a tiny gap in his fake log, but was unable to get out, and had died quite some time ago. He fell apart completely when we touched him, and I had to use a siphon to get his meat and bones out of the tank. I distinctly remember one complete foot waving in the current...

-The mouse with a prolapsed rectum.

-The veiled chameleon who was killed by a milksnake in a neighboring habitat who had found a way in. He was too big for the snake to eat, though he'd tried really hard.

-The half-digested remains of two baby mice, vomited out by two ball pythons during shipping.

-A hermit crab, first thought to be alive as we saw some movement in the shell. Turned out to be maggots. Had to sit down after that one.

-A parakeet that had gotten his leg caught between the cage bars and his bolted-on food dish and had wrung his own neck trying frantically to escape.

-The leopard gecko whose habitat had the unfortunate malfunction of the heat lamp falling onto it instead of being suspended over it, meaning he literally cooked to death. He was crispy, like bacon.

The best thing about all these? We don't just throw the bodies away. Oh no. They all get put into a chest freezer in the back room, which is emptied once a week if we're lucky. There's no telling what will be staring back at you when you open the lid.
(NuclearMosquito, Wed 5 Mar 2008, 4:45, 2 replies)

Those poor reptiles...
What the hell are you doing to them to make them all die? Reptiles are usually pretty hardy, even baby ones. I work in a reptile store :p

Ah wait, I vote Petco?
( Bathory, Wed 5 Mar 2008, 15:23, closed)

Yeah, you got it.
The corn snake probably hadn't eaten. We have to feed frozen/thawed as per PETA, and not all our snakes take to it in time, plus there's no one at the store willing to brain them to make them more appealing. The leopard gecko was super thin, is all I remember. I think he'd been shipped to us that way.
(NuclearMosquito, Wed 5 Mar 2008, 16:39, closed)