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Originally Posted by tortaboy
EVEN after the first one died, and the second one will not eat or drink. Obviously, Michael just gets garbage animals straight from the importers and tries to make a buck selling them to others.
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Your statement here is showing your frustration so I’ll over look the term “garbage animals”, but would like to point out that no animals are garbage they have just been taken from their wild homes and put under severe stress exacerbating any preexisting conditions that may have been survivable in the wild.
Many people sell WC/LTC imports and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Many of the species now marketed as CBB were WC imports a few generations ago. Without the people selling the imports we would be limited to native species only.
I would also like to point out that LTC means that the animal has been in captivity, period. Some importers count the LTC time as starting from they day they were captured in their native country so the term LTC really just means the same as WC. As far as any real standards go there are no standards determining what constitutes LTC.
ALL WCs or LTCs should be suspect of carrying parasite loads, even if the seller says they treated for parasites because a proper treatment regimen may not have been followed. In this case you were informed that they were untreated and should have understood that parasites were likely present.
Emails could have saved a lot of questions by interested parties but…..
Since you are not able to supply emails for us please outline the deal.
What EXACTLY was offered?
Were they sold to you as a breeder pair or was there a price for the male and a price for the female being set?
You were apparently informed that these were untreated animals so the parasite load point is moot in regard to the initial deal.
How was the shipping? Was the DOA on it's back when it arrived? Was there room in the container for it to be slammed around during shipping?
Was the animal alive when it arrived or dead in the shipping container?
How long after they arrived did you discover the death?
Did a Necropsy determine the cause of death or were you guessing based on parasites leaving the body?
Were you offered a free replacement animal shipped on the seller's dime?
Did the seller demand return of the DOA for a replacement?
How did you ship it/them back to the seller? Was that your choice of shipper or his?
Again what exactly did you pay for shipping, each way?