Not all petstores are bad. The large chain stores are genrally bad because they hire people that have no idea how to take care of the animals and also because of the rules the company imposes. I work at a localy owned pet store that is great! We rarely lose animals, and when we do it is almost always the distributors fault (lately they have been sending us some crap). And we always make sure that the animals are healty before we put them out for sale. Any way, like I said in my other post, check out the store you are thinking about buying from for at least a few weeks. Make sure that the cages are clean and the animals have everything they need. Also look at the healh of their animlas over a period of a few weeks. You chould talk to an employee and quiz them about the animlas you want to get to make sure they even know how to care for them (sounds stupid but I have talked to a lot of "reptile experts" that could not take care of a gecko if their life depended on it). Any way, give local pet stores a chance!
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3.1 Frilled Dragons

1.0 Adult Albino Corn

0.1.1 Normal Corns

1.1 Creamcicle Corns

0.0.1 Crimson Corn

0.3 Normal Leopard geckos

1.0 High Yellow Leo

1.2 Albino Leos

0.0.8 Baby Bearded Dragons

0.0.4 D. Leucomelas

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• Herp shows: good/Pet stores: bad? - Tim L., Fri Nov 7 02:12:05 2003
• there has to be a breeder in your area> - Fritz, Fri Nov 7 06:05:43 2003
• Not to mention - cercis, Fri Nov 7 08:40:06 2003
• Granted pet stores are closer but.........(LOng) - jag, Fri Nov 7 10:28:40 2003
• RE: Granted pet stores are closer but.........(LOng) - Tim L., Fri Nov 7 12:35:02 2003
• RE: Granted pet stores are closer but.........(LOng) - poisonfrog420, Fri Nov 7 19:20:27 2003
• RE: Granted pet stores are closer but.........(LOng) - Tim L., Fri Nov 7 21:10:01 2003
• RE: Herp shows: good/Pet stores: bad? - shortydsm, Fri Nov 7 15:33:10 2003
• It depends on the Petco... - poisonfrog420, Fri Nov 7 19:14:10 2003
• I agree that it depends on the Petco. >>>> - xelda, Fri Nov 7 23:55:10 2003