Jazeira
Crested Gecko Breeder
Once upon a time we had a very nice PetsMart down the street. All of the workers there were friendly and KNEW what they were talking about. We had a really great guy who know ALL about fish and a really funny girl who always told stories about her ferret, bunny, and guinea pigs that ran around with each other in her kitchen...
The years went by and the pet store finally started adding a reptile section. They had chameleons, white's tree frogs, etc.. and all in very big and beautifully designed cages.
Then they decided to build a new PetsMart for no apparent reason and when it finally opened, several months behind schedule they had even more reptiles but almost all of them are overcrowded in containers that aren't even 10 gallons!
Every time I go in there I get more disgusted.
I finally sent this complaint in on the petsmart website, and I hope it amounts to something!
"This store is killing the reptiles and amphibians!
Almost all of the reptile and amphibian cages are overcrowded and all of them are extremely dirty.
In a previous visit I saw parasites in the leopard gecko's feces and one had the tip of its tail missing and was walking around with this open wound.
The white's tree frogs are always a dark dark brown, sometimes nearly black which is a sign of stress!
The anoles are clearly suffering from starvation and today, not only were the bahaman anoles severely overcrowded, but they had a number of males in the tank together and three were fiercly fighting! I wonder how many of the females become gravid and then die from being egg bound because there is nowhere to lay the eggs either!"
I know that we don't have that many reptile enthusiasts in my area, so why is the PetsMart loading up on them - so they can kill them? It absolutely disgusts me!
The years went by and the pet store finally started adding a reptile section. They had chameleons, white's tree frogs, etc.. and all in very big and beautifully designed cages.
Then they decided to build a new PetsMart for no apparent reason and when it finally opened, several months behind schedule they had even more reptiles but almost all of them are overcrowded in containers that aren't even 10 gallons!
Every time I go in there I get more disgusted.
I finally sent this complaint in on the petsmart website, and I hope it amounts to something!
"This store is killing the reptiles and amphibians!
Almost all of the reptile and amphibian cages are overcrowded and all of them are extremely dirty.
In a previous visit I saw parasites in the leopard gecko's feces and one had the tip of its tail missing and was walking around with this open wound.
The white's tree frogs are always a dark dark brown, sometimes nearly black which is a sign of stress!
The anoles are clearly suffering from starvation and today, not only were the bahaman anoles severely overcrowded, but they had a number of males in the tank together and three were fiercly fighting! I wonder how many of the females become gravid and then die from being egg bound because there is nowhere to lay the eggs either!"
I know that we don't have that many reptile enthusiasts in my area, so why is the PetsMart loading up on them - so they can kill them? It absolutely disgusts me!
