Look, if those weren't herps, that would be animal abuse. The caging, environment, and species involved is all wrong and you know it. But you're not the only pet shop to do it, and that's why most of us here try to be very careful when we go buy our pets. Because of exactly what you're doing. So, you do whatever you want because it's a free country, and we'll make sure to avoid shopping at stores that keep their animals under inhabitable conditions. It's your choice to do so, even though I don't know how you don't feel guilty at this point. I usually empathize with people that mix a little because I don't think it's absolutely wrong, just something that you have to do right. Meaning the species exist in the same habitats, co-exist well together, don't eat eachother, don't harm eachother, etc. But, what you're keeping together is a pure outrage and that's that. I don't even believe you that someone with even two months of experience would set up day geckos with mantellas with snakes and with anoles. That's just so ridiculous. And in a 2'X 2' enclosure. Sure.



Anyway, with both green anoles and Cuban brown/Bahamian anoles, the males are extremely territorial. And if they're sexually mature, they'll establish territory immediately. So that's the most invalid argument I've ever heard. And not only with eachother--they're capable, the brown males, of attacking anything in their territory that isn't food, a female, part of their habitat, or much too large. But, whatever.



I'm very nice to people that come here and post about mixing, but not in a situation like this. This is just wrong, and very, very disappointing.



For the sake of your animals, I HOPE they can cope well through this, although I also hope that they're not bought quickly or even bought at all. I don't like to think that people who try to rescue these animals actually just provide funding for you to keep doing this, but I know that that's why you people do this. And it's the most immoral thing to put animals in those conditions just so people come and "rescue" them for your financial gain. I'm not going to try to convince you to do anything different because I seriously doubt you'll even consider it. But I'm just letting you know that there are people out here that will refuse to buy animals from pet stores that do that, and I hope that those people will eventually make your policies change.

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