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The guy at the pet store said this tank was one size fits all. LOL. What to you think?

What a joke. I would love to see that guy live in there. I'm sure he would be happy (Ha! Ha!)

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thats what petco would say...lol
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YOU DONT OWN YOUR IGUANA, YOUR IGUANA OWNS YOU

HAPPINESS IS LIKE PEEING ON YOURSELF, EVERYONE CAN SEE IT BUT ONLY YOU CAN FEEL THE WARMTH

I saw a pair of emaciated 2-year-olds living in a tank that size at a local petstore. One was a halfway decent color, but the other was stick brown. The tank was on the ground, and they had no UVB and only one spotlight. There was no water, no food. Honestly, I think they were dying.

None of the animals in that petstore were well cared for. The whole thing rank of old puppy pee and puppy poo, and the dogs were stacked in cages on top of each other in a way that if one puppy peed, it fell onto the puppy below it. The birds had no toys, no food, and dirty water. Only one of them was active.

My husband and I were absolutely disgusted with the store, and made sure that the employee, who was sitting behind the desk chatting it up with some friends, knew about it.

Alika

I'm much more brutal than that - a talking to, especially to the employees, rarely does anything. A call to animal control or animal welfare and a visit from the SPCA does much more - animals will be removed, cleaned up, and treated. Store gets more animals and doesn't learn? Another call gets made.

I knew that was the response I was going to get.

Aside from starting an argument here, let's just say that I made a few phone calls about that place and nothing was done. Kudos to you for caring, but unless you're going to personally go into a place like that and change things yourself and rehabilitate all those animals yourself, there's not a lot you can do in that situation.

Those of you who have the financial resources and the time to put into doing something like that, kudos to you. But for every animal you save, 10 more are going to die. No matter what you do, you can't save them all. And yes, most of those animals in that store will die.

I will not be into that store again. I spend a lot of time every week doing volunteer work to educate people about animals. For every person I educate, that's one more iguana that won't be purchased to die of renal failure; one more bird that won't spend a lifetime in a basement eating sunflower seeds; one more sugar glider that won't spend a lifetime alone in a cage that's too small for it. That's my personal contribution. I'm sorry if that's not "brutal" enough for you.

Thanks, but you weren't there.

Alika