Inquiry: Captive Bred Specialties

Has anyone had any dealings either good or bad dealing with Captive Bred Specialties from Wisconsin? Any information would be appreciated.

This is my experience, you be the judge of how bad it was because it certainly wasn't good.
I bought a turtle from them not too long ago this year, a non U.S. species. One day, the law comes knocking at my door wanting to know about the turtle. Long story short, it turns out the turtle was part of a smuggled shipment and of course I have to hand over the turtle as part of evidence and no, I didn't get it back, nor did I get the money back for it. I did contact the store but to no avail. Anyway, that's my experience.

That sucks.

Could you please fill is in on all the great details. These stories are very interesting and somewhat exciting. You know; what kind of turtle?, how did the feds behave?, what did the feds tell you about the story?, how much did you pay for the turtle? etc., etc. Thank You!

Sorry, that's fill (us) in. Sunday is not my best typing day.

Well, it was a $64 type of pond turtle, the feds were nice about it but portrayed how much they new about their jobs when they asked me what type of snake my ball python was. The gentleman basically had the attitude that a good snake is a dead snake, talk about discouraging! These are the type of people policing the hobby?! I could go on about them but I guess they were just doing what they were told. Apparently Reid was one of many included in the big reptile bust that occurred recently.

That's pretty much it, but for any that believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt - I understand that Captive Bred Specialties might not be dishonest but maybe he has some suppliers that are, which seem more apparent the more experience you get in this business.

This is just my story, money wasn't big but where's the turtle-some gov't biologists has it, I wonder if it's still alive as I right this. Plus, the "publicity" from the feds wasn't great, I enjoy my privacy. Thanks.

Thanks for your feedback.

Yes! Great story! Thank You!

I have been doing business with Reid since he opened shop a few years ago. I know him personally. So far I have no complaints what so ever. I had a few Powersun UV bulbs burn out on me after 2 months, took them back and he even replaced them with the T-Rex bulbs, which I now prefer. So far, I don't have anything bad to say about Reid.

I was working on a deal with him in Feb 2003 and he asked me to have the Beardies I had for sale checked by the Vet. prior to buying a group I had for sale
So I made a special trip to the vet as he requested and had stool analyzed for some common diseases to Beardies and it came up clean. I then faxed it to him from the Vet. And never heard from him again. So this was my only experience dealing with him. He seemed like a nice enough guy.


Douglas