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Posted by Anna on January 25, 2002 at 01:48:40:
I know, I know. All of you have seen this before... but y'know, I'm getting more and more nauseous every day because of it. I go to PetCo near my home to check up on the animals and try and spread some info, and every time it's worse. They're keeping 2 dozen iguanas in a 50 or so gallon octagonal tank. That might not be TOO bad, but they're kept on bark, with a dish of pellets. And a small water bowl that's barely big enough for one of them that's completely filled with poop. They're being kept with a bunch of small tortoises and basilisks in the same cage, and there's one small basking light with one small branch. how the HELL do they all thermoregulate? The store's like, 60 degrees. No UV light that I could see. On the wall that they keep herp cages on: a uromastyx cage holding young, emaciated uromastyx kept on (literally) a mix of cat litter and cat FOOD as substrate, with a hot rock taking up literally 95 percent of the floorspace. Did I mention the cage is about as big as a shoebox, if that? They even have a basking light in there. So the lizards are stuck with no food or water, on a hot rock, under a basking light, ALL the time. The store is now keeping *chameleons* in all glass cages with no hiding spots. Their leopard geckos are GRAY, most of them sleep constantly or twitch, and I walked in today and saw an agama leaning against the glass, shriveled and dead, with HALF of it's head gone. Its brain was exposed and pressing against the glass. Is that good salesmanship? They keep large juvenile calkings in those *tiny* critter keepers on bark, no heat, with a scummy water bowl taking up 90 percent of the approximately 6" by 3" cage. No exaggeration. Half their frogs are dead and rotting, the tarantulas have SOMETHING weird wrong with their bodies, and the "reptile expert" donned thick workman's gloves when I asked to see a young, wrinkled, gaunt rosy boa who was obviously too sick to put up a fight. eighty dollars for that sad 50-50 cal king, and to think someone will buy it and keep all this stuff going. They have a full wall filled with dying herps, the "herp room" where the cages are behind the glass smells like a dead body. On the other side of the store are clean, well kept birds and ferrets. even their MICE are kept in gorgeously healthy surroundings. *insert anguished howling here* I try so hard to get them to listen, I give them caresheets, I talked woman-to-woman with the herp expert. Here's the question: Should I make a scene in front of the customers? (probably not?) Should I file a report? With whom? Should I just stop torturing myself?
