Wow, what psychos. If they really cared about animals, they would go to pet stores like a few in my area, and educate dealers on how to keep animals prior to sale. At one store in my old neighborhood, there is literally a FBT plague, with some little ones in the tank with green treefrogs and leopard frogs, the FBTs just crawled through the partitions. (these partitions have holes, so how's that for trying to isolate any diseases or parasites there might be? Plus, attention to store, FBTs are poisonous..) This, along with skeletal fbts that probably never are fed. And horned frogs with 2 inch-high water bowls, who can't soak themselves. I would get a job there myself to keep the animals in their proper environments, if they didn't pay minimum wage.
At another store nearby, the guy has 2 huge marine toads in about an inch of wet soil, in, get this, a 5 gallon tank. No lie. This, along with the tiger salamanders that were adults, in a few inches of water (they need to burrow, not swim.) Believe me, I could go on (fish keepers, do we keep a grown Oscar in a 10 gallon, with other Oscars?) If any "humane society" exists out there, they could do a better job of educating pet stores; maybe the stores don't even know they're doing wrong. (a stupid excuse.) Then in turn, the buyer of the pet could end up keeping it in the same way! The only people who can combat this is us, knowledgable keepers of herps. We read every scrap of info online, in books, everywhere, and we make educated decisions on where to spend our money and how to keep our animals!
