If the conditions the beardies were being kept in were not "appealing", why did you buy the beardie there in the first place? That just encourages them to get more beardies and keep them in poor conditions. It's a common first-timer mistake, and it's one that I made, and that's why I feel strongly that it needs to be urged to everyone to only buy from places that care for their animals greatly. Right now the market is flooded with beardies, and people need to be buying their beardies from only those that offer great animals kept in great conditions. The reasoning behind this is that then the places that don't do as good of a job as they should (chain stores and breeders that use bad breeding/care practices) won't get enough sales and the others that do actually care about the welfare of their reptiles will. I know with all of the impulse purchasers out there and other people that just don't know the ways of the hobby, these bad breeders and generally bad stores are still going to be able to make the sale, but I still think we should try.
I do think that the market will eventually settle into a good trend. Once everyone realizes that with the market basically flooded, they can't make many sales on a certain reptile (in this case, the beardie), they will stop producing as many, and hopefully bad breeding practices will slow, because there won't be as much of a demand for them. The next couple of years will be sort of iffy though I think.
Went off on a tangent there, but I feel that the reptile hobby is sort of in a bad situation right now what with the proposed bans, and mass producing of certain reptiles.
