should fix rodney, the pet vendor, on issue 138.  not closing with this commit because it is entirely untested
removing some extra code I didn't mean to include
remove some more unintended code.  For all I know that extra code might even be doing something we should be doing, but until/unless someone wants to verify that its safer to exclude anything not directly related to what I was intending to fix
minor db fix
Merge pull request #145 from l1j/tricid

should fix rodney, the pet vendor, fixes issue #138