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Green Iguana's Being Given Away As Prises In Ohio.

diseasedstran Oct 18, 2003 10:35 PM

I Was at the Pumpkin Festival In Circlevill Ohio.
I came across a Mobile arcade in a Half Trailer that folded out into the street. If you check the weather you can see it was only 43 degres Friday the 10'th in Ohio.
When i walked by this little arcade i noticed a Sign that said. "" Live Pet's "". I went to go see what it was , i figured it was gold fish or soemthing. But it was Iguana's.
They were being given away for wining the ticket things out of the games they had inside. And if that wasnt bad enough. All the iguana's were outside. Remember it was only 43 degrese , You could see your breath and it was raining so there was no warming sunlight , and the wind was blowing verry good at the time.
We all had coats on cause we were cold. I couldnt immagine being a iguana in that kind of weather in One of them little plastic -slot vented , Open toped gheco cages. No Lights , No food. And the manager of the attraction - if you want to call it that - was complaining about them dieing to fast. I was going to say something to one of the cops that blocked the street off for the parade , but when i walked farther up to the arcade , i could see who the manager was talking to. And it was a cop that must have been making rounds making sure everything was ok. Or whatever he was doing. What would you do in this situation ?
The cops are standin there , Listening to the guy telling them there dieing to fast and he's makin about Nill for proffet , And there joiking about it with the law.
The only thing i could think of to do was to tell him , loud enough that the cop standing next to him could hear me , that he sould move the lizards out of the cold weather and get some heat lamps off them , or there just going to keep dieing. And i just got waved off with a nod and a "Yeah Yeah , we will".
What else could i do ? It's even colder today and they still had them outside.
Any suggestions ?

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S&T Reptiles.
www.streptiles.com
Seth Mason.

Replies (6)

diseasedstran Oct 18, 2003 10:41 PM

>>I Was at the Pumpkin Festival In Circlevill Ohio.
>>I came across a Mobile arcade in a Half Trailer that folded out into the street. If you check the weather you can see it was only 43 degres Friday the 10'th in Ohio.
>>When i walked by this little arcade i noticed a Sign that said. "" Live Pet's "". I went to go see what it was , i figured it was gold fish or soemthing. But it was Iguana's.
>>They were being given away for wining the ticket things out of the games they had inside. And if that wasnt bad enough. All the iguana's were outside. Remember it was only 43 degrese , You could see your breath and it was raining so there was no warming sunlight , and the wind was blowing verry good at the time.
>>We all had coats on cause we were cold. I couldnt immagine being a iguana in that kind of weather in One of them little plastic -slot vented , Open toped gheco cages. No Lights , No food. And the manager of the attraction - if you want to call it that - was complaining about them dieing to fast. I was going to say something to one of the cops that blocked the street off for the parade , but when i walked farther up to the arcade , i could see who the manager was talking to. And it was a cop that must have been making rounds making sure everything was ok. Or whatever he was doing. What would you do in this situation ?
>>The cops are standin there , Listening to the guy telling them there dieing to fast and he's makin about Nill for proffet , And there joiking about it with the law.
>>The only thing i could think of to do was to tell him , loud enough that the cop standing next to him could hear me , that he sould move the lizards out of the cold weather and get some heat lamps off them , or there just going to keep dieing. And i just got waved off with a nod and a "Yeah Yeah , we will".
>>What else could i do ? It's even colder today and they still had them outside.
>>Any suggestions ?
>>
>>_________________________________________________________________
>>
>>S&T Reptiles.
>>www.streptiles.com
>>Seth Mason.

meretseger Oct 19, 2003 06:09 AM

They're all probably dead now... it went below freezing last night. Those are probably the lucky ones, the ones who went home with people are going to have it worse. If the cops wouldn't do anything I guess you could try contacting the Humane Society in that county and asking if they have any suggestions. Or maybe letters of protest to the city council for letting animal abuse mar their proud pumpkin festival? I bet the popcorn and bratwurst festivals don't allow any such activities... something along those lines. I think the key is preventing this from happening in the future.
If he were doing that with mammals it would be illegal if they were kept well or not.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

Heather Oct 19, 2003 07:58 AM

Get pictures on the conditions. Pictures of the dead ones. Cut out the Weather Page of the news paper. Get all this together (make copies of it) and send it to the city council and Humane Society. Send it out to everyone you can possibly think of that has some power. You can't help those ones there. But you CAN help the ones in the future. This is unexceptable. Make that known.
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2.0 Iguanas, 2.4 Beardies, 1.2 Saharan/Nigerian Uromastyx, 0.0.2 Leos, 0.0.1 African Fat Tail, 1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa, 0.0.1 Fla Garter Snake, 0.1 eastern garter, 0.0.1 Banded California King Snake (M.I.A.), 0.0.1 Corn Snake, 0.0.3 Fire Belly Toads, 1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle, 0.0.1 African Sideneck, 2 Horses (soon to be three {Baby next May!!!}), 4 cats, 1 dog, and I'm still not done.....

Samcin Oct 19, 2003 07:31 PM

Could you get pictures, especially digital?

Problem is that it is not against the law, however there is a group from Ohip that wants to try to get a law.

I have a new yahoogroups list to help people do this.
CarnivalIguana@yahoogroups.com

Cindy
Carnival Iguanas

Samcin Oct 19, 2003 07:50 PM

I found the name of the carnival. THis is their last show of the season, thank GOD!!!

Your written or spoken testimony to the Ohio senate or house agriculture committee would be very powerful. You have first hand account that these people don't care about the animals at all.

Cindy

JDM2007 Nov 03, 2003 07:10 AM

yeah we had an expo here in kentucky and they were giving away live pet baby iguanas hermit crabs and hamsters i tried to buy the iguanas of the guy but he refused. there was this iguana in with the little ones that was about 2 1/2 feet long they were in so bad of health i was not happy.
jdm
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Josh
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2.4 Leopard Geckos
1.1 German Giant Bearded Dragons
2.1 Green Iguanas
0.1 Mali Uromastyx
2 Mole Salamanders
0.1 Corn Snake
1 Eastern Milk Snake
3.0 English Setters
2.1 Muts
1.0 Cat

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