OOPS Guess I should stop calling Double D a Rescue then?

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Posted by Christy on December 12, 2001 at 17:45:19:

In Reply to: Re: Looking for opinions posted by Ig chick on December 12, 2001 at 11:58:15:

All be it I did PAY 60.00 dollard for her, they werent the best pet store adn im sure they coudl have done better, but at least they had MOST of the stuff right, the right food, the right lighting, no reptibark, all be it they did have a heat rock. They had Double D dumped on there door and they spent ALOT of money on her to get her to the point she was at. They also had three STORE iguanas that they kept in back (no I didnt see them) that they felt were not able to go to another home so they kept and cared for them. I felt myself that double d was a rescue and didnt feel bad about giving them teh 60.00 as they did pay so much to save her and did care for there animals well, and made sure to give info out to there customers befoer they sold the animal. Like I said there are things I WOULD love to have seen diffrent but in our area they are one of the best of the pet stores around. So I guess YES I paid to "rescue" my girl and dont have any regrets doing it.

: No, I for one do not consider purchasing an animal from a pet store "rescuing". Even if you pay a reduced price the answer is still no. When doing rescue work on the level that myself and several others here do it, money goes for food, supplies and medical care, not animals.

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: When you buy an animal at a pet store, no matter what reason you give yourself, you are supporting that pet store. Let me put it another way. You walk into Kill A Pet at your local mall and see a half dead emaciated iguana in a 10 gallon tank with a price tag of $20.00 and a sale sign that says reduced 50%. You are horrified at the condition of the ig and feel horrible that it looks that way sitting in its own feces. You decide to "rescue" the iguana and hand the clerk $10.00 which he cheerfully puts in the cash register. That money gets deposited into Kill A Pet's bank account and next time they call their distributor, they take your $10.00 and purchase 5 more iguanas. Three weeks later you are back in the shop and this time there are 3, not 1, iguanas that look like the little guys you purchased for $10.00. Are you going to purchase those too? Are you going to hand over your hard earned money to the pet store for some sick animals, let everyone in the store see you buy animals from that store and then go home and wait for the process to start all over again?

: I've grown to hate the word rescue over the past few months and how people toss it around so lightly. To me, rescue means to take a living creature out of a near death situation. Example -Just recently we took a sub-adult iguana out of a house about an hour away from here. He was coverd in thermal burns that were so bad there were no scales on his belly, only the soft white tissue the seperates the organs from the scales. He was never fed anything other than lettuce and pellets. Not only was he never given any UV, his owner actually said to me "You know you're not supposed to take your reptiles out into natural sunlight don't you? It makes them aggressive." A total of 8 animals left their single wide moble home that day, 7 of which, both desert and tropical species, had been kept free roaming in the same tiny room. While originally the person was surrendering some of the animals willingly, we would not leave until all the animals were surrendered.

: Additionally, I've had more than one encounter with people who paid large sums of money to "rescue" adult iguanas out of pet stores, only to treat them as badly as the pet store did. So, no, no matter what the circumstances, I for one do not ever consider purchase to be rescue.

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: All be it I did PAY 60.00 dollard for her, they werent the best pet store adn im sure they coudl have done better, but at least they had MOST of the stuff right, the right food, the right lighting, no reptibark, all be it they did have a heat rock. They had Double D dumped on there door and they spent ALOT of money on her to get her to the point she was at. They also had three STORE iguanas that they kept in back (no I didnt see them) that they felt were not able to go to another home so they kept and cared for them. I felt myself that double d was a rescue and didnt feel bad about giving them teh 60.00 as they did pay so much to save her and did care for there animals well, and made sure to give info out to there customers befoer they sold the animal. Like I said there are things I WOULD love to have seen diffrent but in our area they are one of the best of the pet stores around. So I guess YES I paid to "rescue" my girl and dont have any regrets doing it. : : : No, I for one do not consider purchasing an animal from a pet store "rescuing". Even if you pay a reduced price the answer is still no. When doing rescue work on the level that myself and several others here do it, money goes for food, supplies and medical care, not animals. : : : : When you buy an animal at a pet store, no matter what reason you give yourself, you are supporting that pet store. Let me put it another way. You walk into Kill A Pet at your local mall and see a half dead emaciated iguana in a 10 gallon tank with a price tag of $20.00 and a sale sign that says reduced 50%. You are horrified at the condition of the ig and feel horrible that it looks that way sitting in its own feces. You decide to "rescue" the iguana and hand the clerk $10.00 which he cheerfully puts in the cash register. That money gets deposited into Kill A Pet's bank account and next time they call their distributor, they take your $10.00 and purchase 5 more iguanas. Three weeks later you are back in the shop and this time there are 3, not 1, iguanas that look like the little guys you purchased for $10.00. Are you going to purchase those too? Are you going to hand over your hard earned money to the pet store for some sick animals, let everyone in the store see you buy animals from that store and then go home and wait for the process to start all over again? : : I've grown to hate the word rescue over the past few months and how people toss it around so lightly. To me, rescue means to take a living creature out of a near death situation. Example -Just recently we took a sub-adult iguana out of a house about an hour away from here. He was coverd in thermal burns that were so bad there were no scales on his belly, only the soft white tissue the seperates the organs from the scales. He was never fed anything other than lettuce and pellets. Not only was he never given any UV, his owner actually said to me "You know you're not supposed to take your reptiles out into natural sunlight don't you? It makes them aggressive." A total of 8 animals left their single wide moble home that day, 7 of which, both desert and tropical species, had been kept free roaming in the same tiny room. While originally the person was surrendering some of the animals willingly, we would not leave until all the animals were surrendered. : : Additionally, I've had more than one encounter with people who paid large sums of money to "rescue" adult iguanas out of pet stores, only to treat them as badly as the pet store did. So, no, no matter what the circumstances, I for one do not ever consider purchase to be rescue.

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