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well not really but i just went to a reptile show and came home empty handed, well with the exception of bugs and lights, no new critters. they only had like 6 collards there total and of course none of them were bicinctores. i never thought finding one would be so hard!
anyway on a sad note. i was looking at this one tank of collareds and there was one in the front with pretty yellow on his head, however you could see every single bone in his body. looking at his hips made me sick to my stomach. i asked the guy if he was dead and he picked him up and said "no he is not dead" completely unconcerned, then his coworker said "but we will take it out of the tank since it is not sellable." like, hello, you did not notice a half dead collared in the tank to begin with? this place is associated with another place around here that is really really really bad. i wanted to go back and offer to take it home, for free of course but i was too afraid to go back and find out they had thrown it in a box to throw away or something.
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

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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0.3.0 Collareds
1.0.0 Mali Uromastix
0.0.1 Colombian Tegu
2.1.0 Green Anole
1.0.0 Chinese Dwarf Newt
1.1.0 California Newts
1.0.0 White's Treefrog
0.0.1 Green Tree Frog
1.0.0 Fire bellied toad
2.1.0 Felines
1.2.0 Canines
1.0.0 Equine

Hhehehe the collared people will fix your depression

Hey it is sad with all the info available these days that pet shops refuse to take proper care or responsibility for the animals they sell. Its just fast money!

Funny my hubby and I were also in a pet shop today and I too saw a collared a c. collaris wc with a rubbed nose for 49.99 sitting in a dark tank huddled up on the side of the tank.

I said to the girl, why is there no basking or uvb light on that guy? Shes said in DITSY kind way, OOPS cause I forgot to put it on, and got a light off another tank right in front of me, and put it on his.
No UVB though, and NOW a darkened tank for the little lizard that she stole the light from.
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PHEve/ Eve

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Hello,
I too went to a reptile expo a couple of weeks ago. It was in Eugene, OR. And there was NO collareed lizards either. I saw lots of snakes, leopard gekos, crested gekos, bearded dragons, and some other lizards. A lot of the same stuff. Luckily they all seemed to be in good health. Good luck finding what your looking for.

Morgan