DierdreDreamwalker626
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We have recently attended a few reptile shows that are reletively close to our area, and at every single one of them has been a group of individuals that completely make my stomach turn! They're geckos are all absolutely disgusting. They're all sickly and skinny, and we know for a fact one of them that someone bought had parasites. At the most recent show they even had dead ones in the containers that they weren't even aware were dead! Their breeding methods are even more recklass. They say that instead of breeding geckos responsibly, they just take a ton of them and let them all run wild together, in what I am sure from the looks of their animals is most likely extremely over crowded environments, and just "let them breed naturally as they would in the wild". They have even said they've had a bunch of geckos kill eachother from accidently putting a bunch of males together because they don't even know how to sex them!! And that was just the geckos! They had some beardies that were covered in feces and all looked like they were on the brink of death. They had a red and white tegu up there at one of the shows that she said she has fed nothing but table scraps since she had purchased him. He was morbidly obese and literally could not even walk because he was so fat!! Not to mention that they're apparently running some kind of rabbit mill because she straight up told me that she has between 200-300 rabbits, and doesn't have the proper space for any of them. They had them in what looked like a cage with sections that would not even be adequate size for a small gerbil, with 2-3 packed in each section! There was mold in the bottom of all of their cages! What I do not understand is how people like this are allowed to even sale at any show or own any animals for that matter!! It says a lot for the people running those show, is all I have to say! .... *urgh* Sorry for the long rant, I just had to get that off my chest, b/c I am absolutely disgusted by this sort of mistreatment of animals. As soon as I can find out some of their information, I will be reporting them so this will not be continued. :main_angry:
