I have been there and done that too many times. It really, really hurts to see them suffer that way.



There is a pet store here in the town where I live that is like that with all its animals, warm blooded and cold blooded alike. Just two days ago I went there to get a new cage for my collareds and I saw a dead newt in a tank which looked like a casualty of poor husbandry. When I said something to him, the owner casually threw it in the trash--right in front of my six year old daughter.



Years ago, before my daughter was born, I had a huge collection of collared lizards (well, it was huge to me with 16 of the little guys) just because every time the pet store got a new shipment in I had to "rescue" all of them from that terrible place. More than half the time the lizards he got in were sick, and quite often they were near death. This was how I got my crash course in caring for sick lizards. My wonderful vet taught me a lot, and we saved better than 75% of the lizards that that pet store brought in. There was just no way I could leave them in that place, ya know?



Fortunately, I never see them in the pet trade around here anymore. This is fortunate for me because I don't have to rescue them all, and it is fortunate for the lizards because I don't think there are so many being taken out of the wild anymore--at least I hope not.



Well, all this to say I feel for you. You must really be torn up inside. I'm sorry



élan
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0.0.1 Colombian Tegu

2.1.0 Green Anole

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1.1.0 California Newts

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0.0.1 Green Tree Frog

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1.2.0 Canines

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