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WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
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It's been said several times but apparantly you are unable to pick up on it, despite the fact that it's pretty obvious.
I would have continued the educational aspect and not badmouthed the company before they had a chance to correct it.
There... said so even you can read and understand.
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The Petco stores in the SF area that were cited are criminals. They have comitted a crime.
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Then why is it a civil case?
Why didn't animal control officers simply sieze these animals?
You said they were called many times, if it were bad enough to warrant criminal charges, it never would have ended up being a civil matter.
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Seamus, have you forgotten that these are living, breathing creatures we are talking about?
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No Kelli, I have not forgotten they are living, breathing creatures.
I also have not forgotten that a list of a few dozen of them represents a miniscule fraction of a percent of the total population that's in captivity in the United States. Or that the private sector has consistently outbred the zoos for the last two decades. Or that education and understanding and the willingness to support appropriate conservation often arises from a firsthand interaction with an animal rather than a television program.
The fact remains that what Marcia did has a very minimal positive impact and an enormous negative one.
Yes, it was bad that the animals were in conditions that were unhealthy.
Yes, it's bad when animals get sick and die.
Yes, it is also a reality that low cost animals don't stand the same chance of seeing a vet as high cost animals. An unfortunate reality but a reality.
No, none of that makes it appropriate to damage the entire industry and ALL the animals contained within it's scope.
It's really a situation where the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. While I certainly reccognize the fact that leopard geckos are living creatures... They are also animals, they are not humans and should not be assigned the same intrinsic value.
Further... if this action is even successful against the company... All it will do is increase sales for all the stores just over the city limits, forcing them to double up the number of animals they keep in stock, resulting in more health problems.
Petco is not going to be put out of buisness. Petco is not going to signifigantly change their corporate policies, which are technically already in place and simply aren't followed much of the time.
The little guy who produces and sells quality animals with decent information will go under with some of these idiotic laws because he doesn't have those dogfood based profits to cover his losses.
The only thing herp laws do... is hurt herpers and herps.
Heck, it's a situation I know well myself. Ever seem Massachusetts' herp laws? What can be kept, what can't be kept, what requires a permit? It's no coincidence that Massachusetts has the densest human population in New England but all the more reccognizeable reptile dealers and breeders are in New Hampshire and Vermont.
The only possible outcomes from this will be negative. It won't impact Petco in any signifigant way but it will harm everyone else.
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Are you really so cold and unfeeling towards these geckos as you appear?
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Those few dozen out of the tens of thousands Petco sells and the thousands they have sold even in that area since that could have been helped but won't be because of the foolish actions Marcia supported and encouraged?
Yes, I suppose in some ways I am. When it comes to fifty leopard geckos versus twenty thousand leopard geckos and every other reptile I own... Yeah, I think I assign a lesser importance to the smaller number of animals.
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I understand you don't agree with her methods but surely you agree with her reasoning behind the methods?
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So is the road to PETA's ideal America.